GOOD FOODS FOR YOUR LIVER
From: Clean, Green, and Lean: Get Rid of the Toxins that make you Fat, by Dr Walter Crinnion, 2010, eISBN:978-0-470-58865-9, (I am directly quoting)
I have this book on my Kindle and Highly Recommend it to my readers.
Good for the Liver: green tea, broccoli, red beets, turmeric, ginger, rosemary, dark green leafy vegetables, rice bran and brown rice. The more of these you eat, the more toxins you will be escorting out of your body.
GREEN TEA and BROCCOLI
When it comes to helping the liver properly process chemicals in the blood, the two most powerful foods are green tea and broccoli. Broccoli boosts the enzymes that help move caffeine and some airborne pollutants out of our blood, and it boosts glutathione function, which helps usher out toxins such as pesticides and solvents (from the way we garden). Eat broccoli raw or juiced for peak benefits, or use broccoli sprouts on your salad. Beyond broccoli, great choices with similar properties are in the cabbage family, beets, and liberal amounts of turmeric, ginger and rosemary.
Green tea and broccoli release fat from storage, supports the liver in its mission to clear toxins from the blood, and helps fat-soluble toxins leave the body with your stool. No other natural compound has such profound power over these toxins that are so reluctant to leave our bodies. Green tea is associated with reduced rates of cancer. It hurries cancer cells along to the self destruction that awaits aged cells. Drinking 4 cups of green tea daily reduces the risk of stomach cancer.
Green tea has also been shown to be effective in preventing the development of full blown prostate tumors in men after drinking 4 cups every day for a year.
Many people say they do not like the taste of green tea. It’s amazing how your taste buds can adjust to accommodate what your body knows is good for it—try it. It is an acquired taste. Try jasmine green tea. Republic of Tea has many wonderful flavors. Try Starbucks green iced tea.
Green tea is also beneficial for our mental functioning, providing powerful brain protection. People who drink two or more cups of green tea a day are 54 percent less likely to experience the typical cognitive decline that happens as we age. The polyphenols in green tea pass through the blood-brain barrier and serve as protective antioxidants for the precious brain cells (neurons), but they can also chelate iron from them. This prevents iron build-up inside the neurons, a condition that promotes oxidative damage is associated with the development of Parkinsonism and other chronic neurologic diseases.
Other benefits of heavily drinking Green tea:
• has been shown to have anti-anxiety effect in animal studies
• provides protection for the heart
• people who drink more than 2 cups of green tea daily are less at risk for cardiovascular disease
• increases levels of normal healthy intestinal bacteria while decreasing harmful bacteria
• prevents chronic atrophic gastritis (found in 80% of people over age 65)
The chapter from this book has convinced me to try drinking 4 cups of Green tea a day. It is worth a try for those of us with chronic liver issues, constipation, or have high cholesterol or whose HDL levels are not as high as we would like them. I like my Green tea with freshly squeezed lemon or lime,and a tsp of maple syrup.
I have this book on my Kindle and Highly Recommend it to my readers.
Good for the Liver: green tea, broccoli, red beets, turmeric, ginger, rosemary, dark green leafy vegetables, rice bran and brown rice. The more of these you eat, the more toxins you will be escorting out of your body.
GREEN TEA and BROCCOLI
When it comes to helping the liver properly process chemicals in the blood, the two most powerful foods are green tea and broccoli. Broccoli boosts the enzymes that help move caffeine and some airborne pollutants out of our blood, and it boosts glutathione function, which helps usher out toxins such as pesticides and solvents (from the way we garden). Eat broccoli raw or juiced for peak benefits, or use broccoli sprouts on your salad. Beyond broccoli, great choices with similar properties are in the cabbage family, beets, and liberal amounts of turmeric, ginger and rosemary.
Green tea and broccoli release fat from storage, supports the liver in its mission to clear toxins from the blood, and helps fat-soluble toxins leave the body with your stool. No other natural compound has such profound power over these toxins that are so reluctant to leave our bodies. Green tea is associated with reduced rates of cancer. It hurries cancer cells along to the self destruction that awaits aged cells. Drinking 4 cups of green tea daily reduces the risk of stomach cancer.
Green tea has also been shown to be effective in preventing the development of full blown prostate tumors in men after drinking 4 cups every day for a year.
Many people say they do not like the taste of green tea. It’s amazing how your taste buds can adjust to accommodate what your body knows is good for it—try it. It is an acquired taste. Try jasmine green tea. Republic of Tea has many wonderful flavors. Try Starbucks green iced tea.
Green tea is also beneficial for our mental functioning, providing powerful brain protection. People who drink two or more cups of green tea a day are 54 percent less likely to experience the typical cognitive decline that happens as we age. The polyphenols in green tea pass through the blood-brain barrier and serve as protective antioxidants for the precious brain cells (neurons), but they can also chelate iron from them. This prevents iron build-up inside the neurons, a condition that promotes oxidative damage is associated with the development of Parkinsonism and other chronic neurologic diseases.
Other benefits of heavily drinking Green tea:
• has been shown to have anti-anxiety effect in animal studies
• provides protection for the heart
• people who drink more than 2 cups of green tea daily are less at risk for cardiovascular disease
• increases levels of normal healthy intestinal bacteria while decreasing harmful bacteria
• prevents chronic atrophic gastritis (found in 80% of people over age 65)
The chapter from this book has convinced me to try drinking 4 cups of Green tea a day. It is worth a try for those of us with chronic liver issues, constipation, or have high cholesterol or whose HDL levels are not as high as we would like them. I like my Green tea with freshly squeezed lemon or lime,and a tsp of maple syrup.
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