FIFTEEN WAYS TO LOVE YOUR LIVER

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FIFTEEN WAYS TO LOVE YOUR LIVER

 

1. Put the six-pack back, Jack

Half of all the alcohol consumed in America is consumed by only ten

percent of the population. One in three adult Americans is a heavy

drinker, with a sufficient liquor habit to be indistinguishable from an

alcoholic. Such behavior wrecks livers.

 

Cirrhosis

Cirrhosis of the liver is a rather rare disease, except among

alcoholics... who make it the seventh leading cause of death in the

U.S.! And it is 4th or 5th, in large cities among adult men. It usually

takes a half quart of whiskey daily for ten years to abuse the liver to

the point of cirrhosis. The fibrous tissue that eplaces normal liver in

cirrhosis causes

decreased liver function. Of course this leads to fluid buildup,

jaundice and perhaps cancer of the liver. Cirrhosis is fairly easy to

arrest by stopping alcohol. But cure is difficult and generally

considered impossible.

Well, as they say in the Marines, the difficult we do immediately; the

impossible takes a little longer.

 

Reversing cirrhosis is reduced to

being merely very difficult if you employ the Gerson program (referenced below)

and very high doses of vitamin C and B-complex vitamins. The corticosteroids

(Prednisone) are commonly tried but the side effects are undesirable, and the

drug is probably neffective.

 

Prevention is the way to go: stop drinking. Sure, as W. C.

Fields said,

" It's easy to give up drinking; I've done it a thousand times.' But

consider this: Fields, the highest paid comic of his time, who

drank over a quart of hard liquor a day, was dead at age 66. That's not

so funny.

 

2. Avoid the virus, Iris

Hepatitis- Acute viral hepatitis, or " infectious hepatitis " is now

called hepatitis A.

" Chronic, " " long incubation, " " serum, " and " posttransfusion " are

now called type B. Non-A non-B may be more than one agent. All respond

remarkably well to very large doses of vitamin C, the B-complex vitamins

and the Gerson therapy, described below.

 

3. Take a lot more " C, " Lee Vincent Zannoni at the University of

Michigan Medical School has shown that vitamin C protects the liver.

Even doses as low as 500 milligrams daily helps prevent fatty buildup

and cirrhosis. 5,000 mg of vitamin C per day appears to actually flush

fats from the liver. (Ritter, M. " Study

Says Vitamin C Could Cut Liver Damage, " Associated Press, October 11,

1986) And vitamin C over 50,000 mg/day (not a misprint) results in

patients feeling better in just a few days, and actually eliminates

jaundice in under a week. (Cathcart, Robert F. III (1981) The method of

determining proper doses of vitamin C for the treatment of disease by

titrating to

bowel tolerance. Journal of Orthomolecular Psychiatry. 10:125-132.)

Frederick Klenner, MD, found that such huge doses of vitamin C had his

patients recovered and back to work in under a week. (Klenner, Frederick

R. (1971)

 

Observations on the dose of administration of ascorbic acid when

employed beyond the range of a vitamin in human pathology. Journal of

Applied Nutrition. 23(3 and 4), pp 61-68, Winter.) These and additional

references are found in the highly-recommended book by Melvyn Werbach,

MD (1988) Nutritional Influences on Illness. New Canaan, CT: Keats

Publishing. Immediate and detailed information on vitamin C dosage and

administration,

written by medical doctors, will be found at

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/ortho_c.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/klenner_table.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/klennerpaper.html

 

4. Don't trust in a shot, Dot

Even if you choose to vaccinate, it is immeasurably reassuring to

remember this: Dr. Klenner showed that very large doses of vitamin C

(between 500 to 900 mg per kilogram body weight per day) can cure

hepatitis in as little as two to four days (Smith, L. H., ed. Clinical

Guide to the Use of Vitamin C, Life Science Press, Tacoma Washington,

1988, pp 22-23).

 

5. Take vitamin B, Dee

Especially vitamin B-12, which significantly reduces jaundice,

anorexia, serum bilirubin, and recovery time. (Jain, A.S.C., Mukerji, D.

P (1960) Observations on the therapeutic value of intravenous B-12 in

infective hepatitis. Journal of the Indian Medical Association.

35:502-5;

also Campbell, R. E. and Pruitt, F.W. (1952) Vitamin B-12 in the

treatment of viral hepatitis. American Journal of Medical Science,

224:252) B-12 is most effective if administered by injection, which your

doctor can easily arrange. If injection is not an option, there is an

intra-nasal gel that improves absorption. B-12 is non-prescription,

utterly non-toxic, and has no contraindications and no negative side

effects.

 

6. Eat veggies and greens, Gene

The fiber and abundant nutrients in vegetables are a sure way to

improve the health of practically any organ you can name, especially the

liver. Vegetables are esentially fat-free. And, they are rich in the

B-vitamin folic acid. (Folic, like in foliage. Neat, huh?) Folate has

been shown to help shorten the recovery time for viral hepatitis.

(Campbell, R. E. and Pruitt, F. W. (1955) The effect of vitamin B-12

and folic acid in the treatment of viral hepatitis. American Journal of

Medical Science, 229:

 

7. Eat your food raw, Paw

Or at least as much of it as you can. Max Gerson, M.D. believed

that cancer in general is a disease of the liver even if occurring

elsewhere in the body. Gerson's nutritional therapy is a raw-foods

protocol that is often very effective against cancer, as well as lesser

diseases. Cancer in the liver itself is often due to environmental

toxins, such as dry-cleaning fluids. I have personally seen a terminal

liver cancer case (and the patient had indeed been a dry cleaner for

many years) vastly improved with the Gerson program. Full dietary

details are provided in his book A

Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases.

 

8. Get off the drugs, Doug

Illegal drugs of all sorts (and not a few prescription drugs as

well) are rough on the liver. This includes anabolic steroids. The liver

is the main chemical detoxification center for your entire body. Don't

push it; quit now before your liver quits on you.

 

9. Eat less fat, Matt

The liver is the largest gland in the body, weighing in at about 4

pounds. Diseases of the liver may result in diminished ability to

emulsify fats. Your liver normally makes 250 to 1,000 ml (over a quart!)

of bile DAILY.

Most (about 80%) of your bile salts are reabsorbed by the

intestinal tract and returned to and recycled by the liver. This is how

your body, with about 3.6 grams of total bile salts in it, can secrete 4

to 8 g of bile salts per single fatty meal. Gross, huh?

Fatty liver is much more common than you would expect. 25% of

people have this condition, according to the Merck Manual, 14th ed.

Fatty liver is the most common response of the liver to injury. It

typifies the alcoholic's liver upon admission to the hospital.

 

The Merck Manual indicates " no specific treatment " (p. 830) and says it

likely indicates other problems, such as alcohol, drugs or malnutrition

(oh, my!)

 

Treatment certainly includes cessation of alcohol intake. Therapeutic

juice fasting gives the liver an opportunity to use all those extra

built-up fats.

 

10. Use safe sex, Tex

If you are not in a monogamous relationship, you are at increased risk for

hepatitis.

 

11. Wash your hands, Stan

Good grief, is that so hard to do? After a bowel movement, that

paper you use to clean up with is thinner than a politician's election

promise. Do you really think the tissue keeps you hands squeaky clean?

To put it another way, do you think it keeps someone else's hands clean

enough for you? No? Then wash your hands with soap and hot water! I read

once that over half of all physicians don't wash their mitts after using

the toilet.

I hope this is not true. My supposition is that it is, however.

When heads of state, billionaires, or doctors use the john, they are

about as likely as you to do what you do. Think about that in your spare

time today. And wash.

 

12. Prevent that stone, Joan

Now here's an obvious argument for vegetarian diet, as only animal

foods contain cholesterol, and cholesterol forms gallstones. Some people

manufacture excessive cholesterol, and this can be controlled

through intelligent use of therapeutic vegetable juice fasting and

large doses of vitamin C, both of which significantly reduce cholesterol

production.

 

13. Spare the bile, Kyle

About 33 ml of bile is stored in the average gallbladder. Many

animals (rats, for instance) do not even have one. In addition to bile

salts for emulsification, bile contains the pigment bilirubin, neutral

fat, phospholipid, assorted mineral salts... and high concentrations of

cholesterol. The gallbladder is more than a storage receptacle. Bile is

concentrated in the gallbladder. Also, water is removed, and resulting

concentrated cholesterol level may be too much to remain in solution

and

cholesterol gallstones may precipitate out. In addition to hurting,

gallstones obstruct the bile duct and thereby interfere with fat

digestion.

One indicator: light-colored stools. Why? Bilirubin, the bile pigment,

darkens them to brown-green. Otherwise, stools would be manila to

greyish-white in color. Ugh.

 

14. Eat Organic lecithin, Tim

Phospholipids in bile help emulsify cholesterol. Lecithin therapy

is therefore almost certainly worth trying for threatened gallstones.

Three to five tablespoons daily is more likely to be effective than a

few capsules. Even a large 1,200 mg capsule contains only about 1/8

tablespoon lecithin because of size limits and added carrier oils.

Lecithin is harmless and without side effects when its made from organic

Soy. Bulk granules run between $8 and $15 per pound. Lecithin is

non-prescription, and available at any health food store.

 

15. Be sure to read, Steed

References and Sources Cited:

 

Gerson, Max A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases, Totality Books,

Del Mar, CA Ray, O. and Ksir, C. Drugs, Society and Human Behavior,

Mosby, 1990, chapter 9 Vander, Sherman and Luciano Human Physiology

Werbach, M. (1988) Nutritional Influences on Illness. New Canaan, CT:

Keats Publishing. Williams, Sue R. (1993) Nutrition and Diet Therapy,

seventh edition. St. Louis: Mosby.

 

Reprinted from the book FIRE YOUR DOCTOR, copyright 2001 and prior

years by Andrew Saul,

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