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hey, guys. dr. axe here, doctor of functionalmedicine and founder of draxe.com. today i wanted to talk about how to cleanse your liverand the top ways to detox your liver. your liver is your second largest organ, and itis so important for detoxification, for cleansing, for your overall health. so i'm going to goover my five top ways that you can detox your liver on a regular basis. and number one is start by removing all thetoxic stuff in your diet. listen, you can take all the pills, all the supplements, allthe potions. and you know what? they will not do any good until you start getting thejunk out of your diet. so step number one in doing a liver cleanse is to remove theprocessed grains and sugars and fast foods

and packaged foods. get rid of it all andjust eat real food. fruit it in its whole form, vegetables in its whole form, organicgrass-fed meats, sprouted whole ancient grains, stick with those types of foods if you wantto naturally cleanse your liver, and stay away from packaged, processed foods, especiallyconventional meat and dairy. conventional meat and dairy are loaded withpesticides, herbicides, gmo residue, antibiotic drugs, steroids, hormones, other medicationresidue. those are all stuck in those meat products that you consume. so again, stopconsuming conventional meat and dairy is the number one step to detox your liver for good. step number two is start consuming liver-detoxifyingherbs. there's three specifically -- milk

thistle, turmeric, and dandelion. now, milkthistle is known as the king of detoxifying herbs, and it's been shown to specificallyboost an antioxidant in your body called glutathione, which helps detox your liver and your cells.so milk thistle, again, the number one herb, typically 150 milligrams twice daily of milkthistle will play a huge role in supporting liver detoxification. the second herb is turmeric. turmeric hasbeen shown to be very high in antioxidants that helps both the liver and the gallbladder.so turmeric, you typically want to do about a tablespoon daily in your food or supplementingwith two capsules daily of about 1000 milligrams. that's also going to help. the other greatthing about turmeric is it reduces liver inflammation.

so it reduces inflammation of your gi tract,so your colon as well as of your liver. so again, 1000 milligrams of turmeric daily,great for reducing liver inflammation and cleansing the liver. the third herb is dandelion. dandelion ispacked with potassium and other herbal compounds that have been shown to act as a diureticand causing your liver to release toxins and also support the gallbladder in releasingbile. that's really what's going to cause that liver to dump the toxins. so there's a great benefit of taking milkthistle, turmeric, and dandelion in a combination in a cell detox or a liver detox supplement.but again, those three herbal extracts are

the most effective herbs at naturally detoxifyingthe liver. not to say there's not others, like bupleurum and a few others that are greatfor the liver. but those are some of my favorites. the third thing you need to do to detox yourliver is to work on your body emotionally and detox your emotions. according to ancientchinese medicine, the emotions you experience directly affect certain organs. when it comesto your liver and cleansing your liver, there are specific emotions of number one wouldbe frustration. the other one is resentment, unforgiveness, and anger. those are the fouremotions that directly affect your liver. so if you know you struggle with frustration,if you tend to get frustrated easily, if you have anyone in your life, including your spouseor coworkers that you tend to have resentment

towards them, know that you're not hurtingthem, you're hurting yourself. you're hurting your liver. those toxic emotions are literallyshutting down your liver and your body, creating disease in your system. and what i'd recommend you to do is get outa sheet of paper, write down all the people you haven't forgiven, all the people you feelany ounce of resentment towards, your parents, spouses, coworkers, and really work to absolutelyforgive and forget. i also just recommend as you do that, you may want to work witha counselor on this. you may want to work with a dear friend that's close to you. but listen, those toxic emotions aren't hurtingthem, they are hurting you. so you really

want to make sure that you work on healingand detoxing those emotions. another great way to do that is practice gratitude. oneof the things i do every morning is i get up and say what i'm grateful for. but practicinggratitude, forgiveness, building joy into your life, reading personal growth books,reading your bible and reading scripture and memorizing verses, those types of things reallywill help you become free. but listen, don't keep it inside. you reallyhave to talk and work with somebody on this as well. so again, a best friend, a counselor,a church, those things can all help. but again, if you truly want to detox your entire systemand liver, you've got to work on that emotional aspect as well.

step number four, eat real liver. that's right.i'm telling you to eat liver, like chicken liver or beef liver. in fact, ancient practitionersor practitioners from the past 100 years really used liver supplementation to help overcomeliver toxicity and other diseases. if you look at men like weston a. price, the famousdentist who traveled the world and found what really caused disease, gum disease and liverdisease and disease in the body. he recommended liver supplementation. dr. royal lee, whostarted the company standard process, recommended raw liver supplementation and liver capsulesand had great results with patients. dr. gerson, who started gerson therapy, recommended beefliver in overcoming cancer. so you can see here real liver is great.

so what i do is i do a chicken liver. youcan make a chicken liver p�t�. i'll do a chicken liver crock-pot, where i'll do two-thirdschicken, two pounds of chicken and maybe one pound of chicken liver i pick up at my farmer'smarket or health food store. do that with celery and onions and carrots and make itinto a big crock-pot. that's another way to do it. or hey, if you just can't eat liver,you can buy desiccated liver tablets online. another easy way to do it is getting liverin your diet. and then step number five for a natural livercleanse is consume foods that cleanse the liver and specifically think spring. thinksprouts, salads, sour foods. in fact, sour foods, according to ancient chinese medicine,are the foods that are most nourishing to

the liver. so think about this, again, a bigspinach salad with sprouts, maybe some tomatoes, some cucumber and then sprinkle a little bitof olive oil. then along with that, some apple cider vinegar.again, you've got the sourness, you've got the fresh sprouts. but again, apple cidervinegar, sprouts, vegetables, vegetable juices, all of those foods are very cleansing to theliver along with sour foods, including most probiotic-rich foods, things like kefir. also,sauerkraut, kimchi, beets, artichokes, dandelion greens, all of those are fantastic for naturallycleansing the liver. so guys, i hope you've learned a lot. thishas been my five tips for naturally cleansing and detoxifying the liver. hey, if you'veliked what you've learned, make sure to subscribe

here to the youtube channel. i've got a lotmore great information coming out on how to cleanse other organs in your body. also i recently wrote an article on my six-stepliver cleanse. if you want to learn what the sixth one is, you can go online, search "draxe.com"and find out what my number six tip is to cleanse the liver. hey, guys, hope you've enjoyed this videoon natural ways to detox the liver.