If your liver isn’t functioning properly, toxins that would normally be filtered by the liver will then gets accumulated in the body. Most people’s livers today work only at around 3′5-40% of their potential capacity because of the large amount of toxins we ingest. If your liver isn’t functioning properly, toxins that would normally be filtered by the liver will then gets accumulated in the body.

Most people’s livers today work only at around 3?5-40% of their potential capacity because of the large amount of toxins we ingest. If you have health insurance with a company like Aviva or Bupa then it may be worth checking with them to see if you are covered before visiting your doctor to check on your liver. It is not too much hassle and is a good idea because just in case there is a problem, you can get treatment promptly

When liver is functioning properly, the organ can clean up to 99% of bacteria and toxins from the blood. Around 2.25 litres of blood pass through the liver every minute for detoxification, and every day the liver manufactures about 1 litre of bile, which helps carry away toxins via the bowel.

Typical symptoms of a sluggish liver are, feeling constantly tired even though you have slept, nausea (especially after a fatty meal or alcohol), skin disorders such as acne, eczema and psoriasis, muscle and joint pain, age spots on the skin, and regular infections.

Also, most don’t associate being constipated with poor liver function, but blood from the bowel goes first to the liver, via the portal venous system, hence a bowel loaded with rubbish is going to overload the liver too.

Other symptoms of poor liver function can include yellowing whites of the eyes, yellowish alike  skin, fever, nausea, difficulty digesting fatty foods, and an increased sensitivity to cigarette smoke, strong perfume, petrol and other chemicals.

Because the brain is unable to disarm a wide range of toxins, it relies on the liver to clean the blood before it gets there. So, over the long term, an under-performing liver can have dire consequences for the brain and nervous system, including memory loss, Parkinson’s Disease and zheimer’s Disease.

While detoxification is the key function of the liver, it also performs these important functions :-

• produces bile to aid fat digestion ;
• as well as eliminate toxins ;
• manufactures and balances hormones ;
• stores various vitamins and minerals ;
• assembles amino acids ;
• makes cholesterol ;
• controls glucose and fat supplies ;
• plays a key role in immunity.

Your digestive system is closely involved in the health of your liver, as the blood from your gestive system, where nutrients are absorbed from your food, goes directly to the liver for filtering before it goes anywhere else in the body. If your diet is good and your digestion and absorption are working well, then the nutrients needed for good health will make it to the liver and then on into the body.

However if your digestive system is generally toxic, result from a poor, low nutrient, high-fat diet, constipation, poor gut flora, and so on, these toxins, and any others foods that you ingest, will similarly be delivered directly to your liver which adds to the liver’s workload.

The good news is that the liver is capable of regenerating itself, so with a good diet and lifestyle and the right supplements there’s no reason you can’t maintain liver function at an optimal level at any age.

And if you look after your liver, your skin literally glows with health. Begin with Healthy Lifestyle !

Stressed people usually use their problems as the excuses to eat more. No matter what the problem is, they tend to run for foods than face the problem and solve it. If you’re happening to be one of these types of person, you could find several tips below to manage your stress and succeeded in your weight loss plan.

1. Be more patience

A high stress level probably drives you crazier until you can’t wait to grab some foods and eat it. Train your patience by waiting about 10-30 minutes before you start eating. After the stress hitting you, try to go for a walk first or go to some place to clear your head. After that, figure out whether you still wants to eat or not. If you’re not, then your desire to eat is triggered by your stress level. If you’re not, feel free to grab some light food so you’re not getting hungrier while still maintain your diet plan.

2. Make your food journal.

Food journal will helps you tracking what you eat day after day. It should give you a clear picture whether you’re still sticking with your diet plan or not. Also, don’t forget to write down what snacks that you’ve eaten during the day. Knowing that you’ll need to write it in your journal, you probably want to think first before you eat it.

3. Get a friend’s help.

Your friend could help you to control your behavior during your stress. Just drop them some notes, email, or call them right away when you start to feel stressed out. They probably could help you to solve your problem, lowering your stress level, even keeping you on track with your diet plan.

4. Stay nourished.

While some people reacted to eat more when they are stressed, some of them are not eating at all. This is probably a lot worse than the first type of person because they tend to eat more than the first type do. Stay nourished even when you’re stress by eating some healthy snacks or drink more water.

5. Write some notes on your desk.

If you happen to spend more of your time working in the office, grab some pen and papers, then write down something like, “Are you sure you’re really hungry?” or “Think about why you should eat right now”, and put it in the places where you see them most. These notes will keep yourself in check and not eating when you don’t need it.

6. Remove tempting foods from your refrigerator. Tempting foods tend to drive you crazy. In one side, you like it a lot and you really don’t mind to eat it. In other side, you know you should stick to your diet plan and avoid it. The answer of this problem is removing the tempting foods completely from your refrigerator.

7. Take your personal time everyday. Use this time to check yourself about what makes you stress today, and think about ways to resolve it when you’re facing the same problems. This is one of the critical steps because you need to maintain a healthy condition, either physically or mentally.

To keep hormones from ruining your weight loss diet, you need to control your hormone, such as estrogen. Estrogen produced in your fat cells. It also increases your fat cells number. The more you have, the fatter you’ll become. So, how could we control this hormone?

1. Evaluate the hormones in your body. What is the ratio of estrogen and progesterone in your body today? If it’s balances, then you have no problem at all. But if it’s not, and you have more estrogen, you’ll likely to collect more weight around your waist. It’s called estrogen dominance.

2. Lower your estrogen. Start you estrogen-lowering program if your estrogen is out of control. Some of the way you can do is by balancing the estrogen and progesterone. It could be done by increasing your progesterone using a bio-identical progesterone cream. However, it’s not the only way. You could ask professional advice to get more information for balancing your estrogen.

When you start your estrogen-lowering program, you’ll encounter some of these steps below:

- Increase the fiber. You could do this by eating as much fruits and vegetables, whole grain foods, as you want or consume the pills that contains fiber about 30-50 grams of fiber daily.
- Increase the indoles. You could find it in cabbages, broccoli, or cauliflower. Eat those foods or get a supplement that contains indole-3-carbinol. Remember, your target is 3 servings per day.
- Increase the essentials fatty acids. It’s called essentials because your body can’t produce them. It will help to regulate your estrogens and balance your prostaglandin production.
- Increase your nutrition. You could do this by taking extra vitamin C or some supplements.

3. The 40/30/30 rule. Eat your Carbohydrate, Proteins and Fats in a 40/30/30 ratio for each meal, everyday. This is one of the balanced meals. Having a balanced meal everyday will help your body to balance the hormones, increase your energy, and normalize your weight.

4. Move a lot. Don’t spend your time by sitting in front of TV and hoping that you’ll lose weight by tomorrow. It’s not going to happen. Instead, move your body and do some exercises. Ask professional advices to tailor a great exercise program for you, follow it, do it, and stick with it. Keep your body active during the day.

5. Go celebrate! When you reach your goal of your desired weight or just lose several pounds, celebrate it with your love ones. Well, it’s no harm to relief yourself and enjoy barbecue grills for celebration.  After that, stay on track, and you’ll feel better with your new looks!