Liver Cleanse: other things to consider

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3-part audiocassette lecture by D. Gary Young, "JuvaCleanse Your Liver for Better Physical, Emotional & Spiritual Health"
(Training Tapes #50, 51 & 52 © Copyright 2003 Essential Science Publishing).

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You're ready to start your liver cleanse. You've planned out how you'll unburden your liver, and assembled your basic tools for your liver cleanse program. But, is there anything else you should consider?

Added elements for a successful liver cleanse

Things that will make your liver cleanse more effective

Unburdening the liver and the use of the therapeutic-grade essential oil blends of the liver opening blend and the liver clearing blend, and the hepatic clearing dietary supplement, will go a long way toward cleansing your liver. However, for a truly successful cleanse, it's important to break free from the pharmaceutical-culture mind-set, and look at the broader view of how the body works. Many things work together in this elaborate symphony of the human body. So, you'll have greater success if you include the following in your liver cleanse regimen.

• Drink plenty of water. The more water you drink, the more you'll flush the liver, and the greater the effect you'll have with this cleansing program.

The general rule-of-thumb: drink 1 oz for every 2 lbs of body weight. So, if you weigh 150 lbs, you'd need to drink 75 oz — 9-10 8 oz glasses — of pure water every day. This water is needed to flush the toxins out of the system.

It's hard to emphasize this enough.

In the cleanse that Linda and I did, we could clearly see the day-to-day effects of not getting enough water. Things were just not moving out of the system as they should. Adding more water to the regimen quickly took care of the problem.

• Supplement with MSM. The sulfur in MSM (Methylsulfonylmethane) is necessary for moving the toxins out of the liver, as well as for rebuilding healthy cells.

There are something like four stages of detoxification in the liver. In stage three (I believe), toxins are bound to sulfur to render them essentially inert, so they can be safely eliminated through the gut. Inadequate sulfur intake results in inadequate detoxification.

The super MSM supplement is an excellent MSM product.

• Fortify your system with plenty of digestive and systemic enzymes. Because our foods are so devoid of the enzymes that are supposed to be there, even otherwise good foods can create a toxic overload for the liver.

If you can do nothing else for a liver cleanse, this alone would be very helpful.

There are many different digestive and systemic enzyme products that are very good. On the other hand, there are many on the market that are very bad. Some studies have shown zero enzymatic activity in some of the major brands of enzymes.

• Cleanse the colon. To have a good release and a good discharge with your liver cleanse, it's important for the colon to be clear, as well. If the colon is compromised, it will negatively impact the whole regimen.

  Why?

  Because the colon must be clear to prevent the re-absorption of the toxins that are being dumped from your liver. For this, you should use something like the colon toning supplement, and either the fiber plus supplement (both of which are enhanced with therapeutic-grade essential oils) or the ultimate fiber supplement, as well as the digestive essential oil blend (diluted and placed in capsules). Another supplement I've found to be very helpful is the homeostatic soil organism supplement.

• Correct your pH. One of the best things you can do to enhance your cleansing is this: The first thing in the morning, squeeze half a lemon into 8 oz of water, and chug it.

  Why?

Because most people, when they wake up in the morning, are very acidic. You can tell that by how the mouth tastes. If it feels like you have a dirty sock in your mouth, well, you're pretty acidic. The lemon and water resets the pH of your body. This is very, very important.

If taking the lemon in water straight is too tart for your tastes, you can sweeten it with a natural sweetener; but it's best not to.

Another option is to use the acid balancing supplement. It contains several acid-fighting ingredients to rapidly restore your proper pH and build the alkaline reserves in the body.

• Clear the obstructions in your liver. This is a very important thing you can do to enhance your liver cleanse. In fact, I saw only limited benefits from my program until I added this. What to do?

  Put 8 oz of raw, unsweetened cranberry juice in a gallon of water, and drink it throughout the day. This does a couple of things to enhance the effectiveness of your oils and hepatic clearing supplement.

  • It helps to facilitate the breaking up of calcifications in the gallbladder and in the liver that might be blocking ducts, which
  • Helps you to start purging toxins, and starts you cleansing at a little higher level.
  It's important to make sure that the ducts are open for an effective cleanse, and this will go a long way toward that.
• Feed the liver with supporting foods. It's not all about cleansing the liver; it's about feeding the liver every day. Red beets are one of the best liver foods that exists. Greens, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower: all are foods that cleanse and feed the liver. And radishes are very supportive to the liver, as well.

  If you put red beets, radishes and cucumber together, you get a fabulous dish. If you do that as a cold vegetable, or as a salad, over Romaine lettuce with bean sprouts, you've got one of the most beautiful, liver-supporting foods that you can eat. If you can't get these supportive foods as often as you'd like, you could supplement your diet with the liver clearing drink, along with the liver clearing spice blend. Another product is the ultimate super green food drink. It's very good.

Three other issues not addressed above, but which are very important considerations in any effective cleanse are yeast overgrowth, parasites and inadequate protein intake.

• Yeast overgrowth: Yeasts (such as Candida albicans) have a way of taking over the digestive tract. Factors contributing to this are:
• chlorinated water,
• antibiotic use,
• the "Pill", and
• a nutrient-deficient, acid-forming diet — which is pretty much basic for most Americans.

Once a systemic infection is established, it can wreak havoc on the whole body. Part of the problem lies in the toxic gasses that they emit as part of their metabolic cycle.

For an effective liver cleanse, it's important to eliminate this source of toxicity. Three products that would go a long way in helping this are the anti-fungal supplement, the homeostatic soil organism supplement (a probiotic supplement) and the acid balancing supplement (since yeasts just love an acidic environment).

• Parasites: Parasites present many of the same problems as yeasts, one of the major issues being toxic gasses emitted in their metabolic cycles. Parasite infestations are very common today, even in America — in fact, a person free of parasites would be very uncommon.

  There are a number of therapeutic-grade essential oils that are effective in ridding the body of parasites. The digestive blend, the liver clearing blend and the liver opening blend are all effective, as well; and the parasite ridding blend is also very effective. I have also had good results with the liver clearing drink and the liver clearing spice blend.

  Other products that offer you some good alternatives include the homeostatic soil organism supplement and the acid balancing supplement. The homeostatic soil organism supplement will establish friendly flora in the gut, creating an environment unfriendly to parasites, and assisting in their elimination. It's much more effective than any other probiotic on the market. The acid balancing supplement corrects the pH of the gut, also creating an unfriendly environment for parasites. The ultimate fiber supplement might also be helpful, by virtue its colon cleansing action.

• Protein intake: As the liver is clearing, it needs to rebuild healthy tissues. For this, it needs adequate protein.

  There are some fine pre-digested protein supplements, including the high tech amino acid supplement, the super whey protein supplement, the homeostatic protein supplement and the power protein blend. Something that I like better than any of these, however, is the goat milk protein supplement. It's a pre-digested goat milk protein, offering many advantages over vegetarian or simple whey proteins, and contains probiotics and digestive enzymes, as well. And it tastes great.

Keep these things in mind as you do your liver cleanse, and you'll be amazed at the results you will achieve.