The Amazing Liver and Gallbladder Flush: A Powerful Do-It-Yourself Tool To Optimize Your Health And Wellbeing

By Andreas Moritz

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This book provides a thorough understanding of what causes gallstones in the liver and gallbladder and why these stones can be held responsible for the most common diseases so prevalent in the world today. It provides the reader with the knowledge needed to recognize the stones and gives the necessary, do-it-yourself instructions to painlessly remove them in the comfort of one's home. It also gives practical guidelines on how to prevent new gallstones from being formed.

Gallstones in the Liver -- A Major Health Risk

The liver's work in the body is similar to the infrastructure of a city, performing hundreds of essential functions as it supplies the body's cells with numerous enzymes, hormones and nutrients. Some of the liver's functions include:

• producing 1 to 1.5 quarts of bile per day
• maintaining the body's fuel supply
• detoxifying harmful substances
• filtering 3 pints of blood a minute

If gallstones are allowed to accumulate in the liver or gallbladder ducts, these functions cannot be performed effectively and toxins will be created. Wherever toxins are able to accumulate in the body, illness will manifest. This includes everything from cancer to hair loss, heart disease to headaches.

The gallbladder is a small pear-shaped organ attached to the back of the liver. It takes salt and water out of bile and adds mucus, making it a more concentrated substance for use in digestion. The gallbladder secretes more bile to digest fat than for other food types. Bile salts are actually reabsorbed at the end of the digestion process and returned to the liver.

Gallstones consist of cholesterol, calcium, bile salts, toxins, bacteria and possibly dead parasites. The majority of gallstones are approximately ¾ inches in diameter, although some can be much larger. Gallstones can cause infections and inflammation in the gallbladder as well as the spasms of a gallbladder "attack."

The following sections illustrate the negative effects of gallstones in various systems of the body. Keep in mind that these are simplistic explanations; the book contains more detailed descriptions of these processes.

Digestive System : A healthy digestive system performs four basic functions:

• Ingestion -- Eating and swallowing.
• Digestion -- Breaking down food into usable particles using enzymes in the mouth, stomach, intestine and pancreas.
• Absorption -- Allowing tiny nutrients to go through the intestinal walls and into the blood stream and lymph system where they are taken to the cells.
• Elimination -- Removing feces made up of bile, dead intestinal bacteria and the leftovers of digestion.

One of the liver's most important tasks is to produce bile, a bitter greenish liquid used to assist with digestion. Bile also cleanses toxins from the liver and intestines. Liver function is negatively affected by antibiotics, alcohol, fungi, food additives and other toxic substances. An overload of these substances can cause allergies or infections, since the body's health has been compromised.

If digestive processes cannot be performed effectively, waste and toxins accumulate in the intestines and liver, causing diseases to occur. Examples include:

• tooth decay, gum disease and thrush in the mouth
• ulcers, gastritis and reflux in the stomach
• pancreatitis, tumors and diabetes in the pancreas
• cirrhosis, liver failure, hepatitis and infections in the liver

The presence of gallstones lessens the amount of bile available for digestion, causing a chain reaction. The smaller amount of bile impairs the ability of pancreatic enzymes to digest food so the nutrients can't be properly absorbed by the small intestine. The resulting lack of nutrients inhibits proper function of the body's cells. The poorly digested food attracts bacteria and impairs the immune system. This leads to malnutrition and food cravings in the short term and serious diseases of many kinds over the long term.

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