Does your liver need some love?

⚖️ If you’re holding onto some extra weight around the middle, your body has to work harder to rid your tissues of toxins. Fat cells love to hold onto and store toxins, like chemicals from plastics and pesticides. The more extra weight you have, the more toxins your body is storing and the more stressed your liver is when trying to do its job.

🍭The liver uses sugar to create fat and excess fatty accumulation in the liver caused by a diet high in refined sugars can lead to fatty liver disease and other health issues.

🍺Anything in excess is not typically associated with overall well-being and alcohol is no exception – its on top of the list of things we should refrain from overindulging in. It is well-known that excessive alcohol use takes a heavy toll on our health in many ways, but when it comes to the liver it can cause severe damage and eventually alcoholic fatty liver disease.

☠️Exposure to toxins and chemicals in our environment burden the liver and the rest of the body’s detox pathways and organs. Unfortunately these toxins are everywhere and in everything, but we must do our best to avoid them when we can and to assist our body’s natural daily detox by living a healthy lifestyle.

🥦A healthy gut is key to promoting sufficient detox pathways in the liver and throughout the body. When your gut is unhealthy, toxins have the potential to enter the blood and cause food sensitivities, inflammation, and whole-body stress, including the liver.

🍟Processed packaged and fast foods are extremely high in unhealthy fats, salt, added sugars, inflammatory oils, and chemical flavors and preservatives. Processed foods are not only unhealthy, but quite damaging to our whole body system and the liver is no exception.