Eliminating tobacco, alcohol, caffeine, and refined sugars and fat is a good start. Drink plenty of water. To flush your system you can use bitter herbs like licorice and dandelion.
This. Also, taking a supplement that contains a combination of Milk Thistle, Dandelion, Globe Artichoke and Rosemary. That's what my naturopath put me on. I never drink or smoke, but my liver crapped out from some medication I took.
A Chinese Medicine Practitioner told me that all fruits should be eliminated from your diet, apart from apples, because the liver processes fructose, and it is actually worse for you (in terms of liver function) than any other form of sugar. I don't know how true this is, and I still eat fruit.
Fruit is an important component of any diet. Both galactose and fructose are insulin independant and although you are right they are processed by the liver they are not damaging unless eaten in large quantities where eventually fatty deposits will form.
Can you help me with cleansing my liver?
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Eliminating tobacco, alcohol, caffeine, and refined sugars and fat is a good start. Drink plenty of water. To flush your system you can use bitter herbs like licorice and dandelion.
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This. Also, taking a supplement that contains a combination of Milk Thistle, Dandelion, Globe Artichoke and Rosemary. That's what my naturopath put me on. I never drink or smoke, but my liver crapped out from some medication I took.
A Chinese Medicine Practitioner told me that all fruits should be eliminated from your diet, apart from apples, because the liver processes fructose, and it is actually worse for you (in terms of liver function) than any other form of sugar. I don't know how true this is, and I still eat fruit.
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Fruit is an important component of any diet. Both galactose and fructose are insulin independant and although you are right they are processed by the liver they are not damaging unless eaten in large quantities where eventually fatty deposits will form.
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Do you mean glucose, not galactose? Galactose is a sugar too, but not commonly found in fruit.
Apologies if I'm wrong.
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Galactose is found in dairy and is similar to fructose in the way it is transported and processed in the body.
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Fair enough, just seemed odd to mention galactose when you're on about fruit.
Yeah, I thought it sounded kooky. He was a bit odd. And none of my naturopaths (with nutritionist qualifications) said that, so I ignored it.
Your first two lines are correct.