The liver is a critical organ that cleanses blood and controls fat in the body. But with today's high chemical and artificial ingredient diets, the liver must cope with many potentially destructive elements. Now, research suggests that healthy liver maintenance is paramount to our overall health.

Physician Sandra Cabot struggled with several difficult medical cases. While attempting to unravel the mystery surrounding these cases, she began investigating the liver and determined that, "The liver is the simple point of concentration that has the most profound effect on the other parts of the body."

Following her research, she and several colleagues developed a regimen for a healthy liver. She also wrote The Liver Cleansing Diet, which serves as a blueprint for liver health. In Australia, the book became a bestseller. Though the title may suggest that it is a diet book, Cabot points out, "It is a simple way people could eat and include more of the foods that were good for the liver."

As part of her treatment for liver cleansing, Cabot sometimes recommends supplements, specifically those that benefit the liver, including the potent herb milk thistle, the antioxidant alpha lipoic acid, as well as liver tonics with a combination of ingredients.

She says her approach works best preventively and often helps those suffering with serious diseases like hepatitis. "You can put that virus into a dormant state," she claims.

A common but often overlooked condition that can even affect children is fatty liver. Cabot explains it occurs when the liver becomes a "warehouse for fat. A healthy liver is a fat burner," she says. "Fifty percent of people who are overweight have some degree of fatty liver, particularly as they get older, and that has a lot to do with the genesis of cardiovascular disease which is the leading cause of death."

Cabot maintains that good liver health may prevent and fight many diseases in the early stages. "I'm trying to make people understand that the liver needs to be taken care of before you get to the stage of a liver disease."

Standards To Live By

"And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as he is pure" - 1 John 3:3

"Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin." - Psalm 51:2

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