Quick Fix for Restoring Good Health

 

When your liver works right, every other cell in your body works right. So when you choose a food to put in your mouth to feed your body, choose a food that satisfies two conditions: 1) it must protect your liver, and 2) it must feed your gut. Foods that satisfy both precepts are healthy foods; those that do neither are poisonous; and those that do one or the other, but not both, are not the best choices you can make.

All degenerative disease in the modern world is the result of eaters having loaded their livers with sugars that the body cannot help but convert to and store as unhealthy fats, and starving their gut of the fiber needed by beneficial bacteria there that process what we eat so we can utilize the nutrients.

Implementing these two precepts is difficult and only possible by eating real food—which is not what the food industry is selling, by and large. The responsibility is upon each of us to be discerning in what we put in our mouths. We must eat as if our life depends upon it; eat as if our optimal health depends on it.

When you take care of your liver you are promoting metabolism. The liver is where virtually all the metabolism in the body occurs. The liver removes anything that might be poisoning the body. The liver literally sends out energy to the rest of the body. The liver is ground zero for health. Good Liver = Good Body.

If you want to protect your liver you have to protect it from toxins. There are a lot of things that are toxic to our good health, but the largest source of toxins in the foods we eat is sugar, and alcohol and drugs if they are consumed. So, if you want better overall health, the rules are simple: First cut out sugars of all kinds, as well as artificial sugars, and stop or minimize the use of alcohol. Stopping the use of drugs goes without saying, but what may not be as apparent is the inclusion of regular exercise to optimize the function of every organ in the body. Accomplish this and you are 90% of the way there.

Then we must take care of our gut. Before the advent of packaged and microwavable food, gut bacteria were used to getting what they wanted to eat—fiber. But now those same bacteria are starving, and they’re not happy. They are causing the normally impervious intestinal barrier to become “leaky,” leading to inappropriate immune system activation and chronic inflammation. To improve the gut, again, the rules are simple: eat a lot of fiber every day – a lot of vegetables and fruits in their raw form. And it wouldn't hurt to supplement with an active pre- and probiotic to restore bacterial health.

Promote Metabolism and Suppress Inflammation.

That's what you can do to be a healthier you.