Does Lemon Juice Detox the Liver?
Cleansing the liver is just as important as cleansing any other organ in the body. Some people will buy colon cleansing formulas not realizing that the liver needs to be looked after too.
One great method of cleansing the liver is by using lemon juice. Simply add the juice to a glass of water and sip it throughout the meal. This will help you stomach digest your food and prevent undigested food entering the blood stream. This syndrome is sometimes called a leaky gut. The liver sees them as contaminates, food particles, even minute particles should not be in the bloodstream. The liver filters them out. Improving the digestion process relieves the liver of this filtering load.
Another reason why lemon juice is good for the liver is that it help get rid of gallstones. Gallstones are calcified bile usually surrounding a parasite or bacteria, in an attempt to destroy the bacteria. Your body can have a really difficult time trying to remove these gallstones and because gallstones are porous they can become a breading ground for further infection, compounding the problem.
You can mix lemon juice with olive oil and Epsom salts which you take at specified times during the day and evening of treatment. When on this treatment you will need to go on a non-fat diet for the day before the cleanse and the day off. Since the bile isn’t being used to breakdown the fat it will build up. The built up bile add pressures to push the stones out of the gallbladder.
Lemon juice has another beneficial use to the liver. It’s high in vitamin C, a powerful antioxidant. When the liver removes certain contaminants from the blood stream it converts them to free radicals. Antioxidants neutralize the effects of the free radicals.
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June 26th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
The best tasting liver/gallbladder flush I have tasted and I have done a few, is done not with lemon juice but with fresh pink grapefruit juice. For some reason if you shake the oil and the juice together they blend well and it goes down a lot more easily than drinking oil first chased with lemon juice.
March 20th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
I like your concept of adding an herbal colon cleanser to a healthy diet. I think that is essential to ensuring that the colon cleanser will work effectively and a healthy lifestyle will be preserved.