11 Ways to Protect Your Liver from Toxins

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so there’s one cell in your body that takes a beating it does the majority of detoxification and that cell is called the hepatocyte and hepatocytes are liver cells so your liver is the main detoxification organ of the entire body to a lesser degree the kidneys help you detoxify in small intestine helps you detoxify the skin can help you detoxify and even your fat cells can help to some degree detoxify but it’s that liver that takes a beating So today we’re going to talk about how to make sure your liver is doing its job I want to give you some solutions that are simple easy changes to protect yourself but you do need to be aware of the quantity of chemicals that we are swimming in every day because they do affect us in a negative way but it’s hard to pinpoint One Thing versus another because there are so many chemicals and variables it’s very hard to test for this I mean think about this we have 27 trillion pounds of chemicals that are produced or imported from other places to the U. S every single year that’s 74 billion pounds every single day which comes out to about 250 pounds of chemicals per person so there’s a lot of exposure of chemicals now you might say well I live a pretty clean life and I don’t I’m not really exposed to chemicals it doesn’t include fuels doesn’t include pesticides it doesn’t even include the chemicals in your food and I’m not even including the poisons I’m sorry did I say poisons I meant medications from health care I mean it’s just bizarre to me that if we think about health care well that’s just another way we’re exposed to more chemicals to suppress symptoms I mean really what’s missing in healthcare is the health part I mean what is in health care that’s actually creating more Health these chemicals they build up the half-life and some of these chemicals can be from weeks to years to decades and a half-life the substance is that you’re reducing the potency of something by 50 over a period of time so it becomes less activated and a lot of times they’ll measure the half-life of certain chemicals okay the book on toxicology you can see there’s actually quite a few toxins in our environment and a lot of information on it but the half-life a lot of these chemicals are measured usually through the blood not necessarily through your tissues the cells outside the blood which is a whole different thing we definitely need to do three things we need to be aware of the chemicals we need to reduce the exposure to the chemicals and we definitely need to increase the ability to detoxify the chemicals and the main support needs to be to the hepatocyte that liver cell and now a lot of these chemicals in the environment act like estrogen okay so they’re called estrogen disruptors or even endocrine disruptors because what they do to the endocrine systems they can act and mimic like your hormones and so they can really throw off the thyroid the adrenals the pituitary all these different hormonal Pathways and there’s definitely a direct connection between what those chemicals do and how they damage the DNA how they alter the DNA they can mutate and change the DNA and they create a lot of diseases a lot of oxidation and free radical damage and of course this free radical damage can create a whole Cascade of problems and this is why antioxidants help to counter that our bodies make antioxidants and we also can get antioxidants from food now another really interesting thing about certain chemicals in foods that can help us detoxify is the fact that we already have the Machinery the enzymes within our bodies okay we have certain enzymes that can turn poisons in Thomas particles but they can become activated by certain things in our Foods so sometimes we have this idea that it’s just the antioxidants that are kind of countering the oxidation but also they’re activating something that we already have inside we just need to turn on those genes to do the job a little bit better and I just had my DNA tested and apparently I also have certain detoxifying genes that are not working like they should so I have to work harder at getting them to work so there’s a group of enzymes that are called the cytochrome p450 enzymes and there’s this whole biochemical pathway that goes from phase one phase two phase three that helps to turn these poisons into things that are harmless so the majority of that occurs in that hepatocyte that it does incur in other places in the body so I’m going to be going through uh things that we can do to minimize exposure to the poisons well you can do to activate them and also the number one food that will help you activate these enzymes that you already have all we have to do is trigger them we have toxins and pollution from the air from the water from the food from beauty products right lotions shampoo hair gels conditioners hair dyes etc etc etc we need to make sure those are as clean as possible let’s just kind of go down the list and just talk about it so air pollution I would highly recommend getting some type of filter there’s one good one called Merv 8 and that can be very essential if you live in polluted areas especially if you live in the city you want that air filter to minimize the amount of chemicals and that can make a big difference in your exposure number two growing certain plants that can help soak up chemicals like Benzene and formaldehyde and many of the other chemicals in the air so it’s not a very expensive thing to just have more plants in your house and I’m going to put a video down below of what plants I would recommend spending more time in nature is very very therapeutic from just breathing in healthy air all right what about a water filter do you have a shower filter do you have a water filter you definitely need to get one the amount of crap that’s in our water I mean even chlorine yes chlorine will kill off pathogens but on the flip side it can increase the risk of cancer so we have chlorine we have fluoride we have all these other chemicals in the water so you need to get a water filter and they don’t have to be expensive I mean a really simple uh relatively inexpensive water filter and you get all different kinds you can get it from the shower or a pitcher or under the counter or over the counter just go to zero water I’ll put a link down below I’m not affiliated with them but they have a good system they have three ways of getting rid of chemicals the carbon filter they have one that binds to heavy metals and they have another filter that will help reduce other things like chloride and fluoride and things like that now another really important thing is fish okay always it’s well caught farm-raised fish are loaded with pcbs okay just more chemicals you want to do wild caught and you definitely want to consume the fish that are smaller you don’t want to consume the big fish like avoid swordfish shark tuna these fish accumulate a lot of mercury because they tend to eat smaller fish that eat smaller fish so there’s a much higher concentration of mercury like sometimes up to a thousand times more and that mercury can accumulate in your body but with the smallest fish there’s much much less Mercury and the selenium can bind to the Mercury that’s in there and inactivate it so it’s not a problem now what about organic vegetables absolutely let’s say you just can’t afford organic you can break down a considerable amount of organophosphates by using apple cider vinegar and water you just put a fourth of a cup of apple cider vinegar and a gallon of water and wash your vegetables you can remove a lot of chemicals just by that simple procedure so organic food is without pesticides and it is more nutrient dense now I already mentioned the chemical free beauty products so many people are exposing their bodies deodorants and hand creams and they’re not really reading the lab able these things accumulate the