Liver Detox Salad Recipe: Quick and Delicious

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Liver Detox Salad Recipe: Quick and Delicious

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The liver is the master organ of detoxification. If I had to choose one

organ that I would devote all my love to, it would be my liver.

It is the gateway to your blood and works very hard night and day to

eliminate toxins. Chinese medicine practitioners have been sharing this

knowledge for literally hundreds of years and it's high time we treated our

liver

like the temple it is.

If you live in a polluted city, eat processed foods, drink alcohol, smoke,

use non-organic/natural body care products, have stress in your life, use

chemicals in your home or if you just want to give your liver some more

love, then this salad is for you.

Liver Lover Salad - 5 minutes is all it takes to make!

2 apples chopped

2 cups of raw beets grated

2-3 medium sized carrots grated

1/2 cup almonds (soaked in water overnight - see reasons below)

1 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil

1 tbsp of freshly squeezed lemon

Sea salt & pepper to taste

Mix all together in a large bowl.

Soaking nuts is extremely important to increase their digestibility. Any

nuts with a brown skin such as an almond, walnut, hazelnut and pecan need to

be soaked overnight because of enzyme inhibitors that prevent your body

from properly digesting the nut.

Why has nature given nuts this protection in the form of a brown skin? It

keeps the nut dormant until it's planted in the ground and surrounded by

moisture; this is when the nut can come to life and grow. It's also why when

you soak nuts, they become " superfoods, " because they think they are

becoming a tree! The nutrients flourish, the protein content actually increases

and the nut becomes a living food because it is bursting with enzymes.

Another reason to soak nuts is that they tend to be very acidic when they

are dry. When you soak them they become more alkaline because they are now

a " living food " . This is very health-promoting because the Standard

American Diet (SAD) is very high in acid-forming foods such as dairy, sugar and

red meat. Eating more alkalinizing foods is a good way to love your body.