How to Detox the Liver – 11 Simple Habits to Start
Let’s look at 10 simple habits you can take right away to detox the liver so you can look and feel your best. Each of the following is equally important.
1. Morning Lemon Water
Drink warm lemon water first thing every morning to kick start your metabolism, flush your digestive system and alkalize your body.
2. Daily Milk Thistle / Peppermint tea
Each morning you will make one mason jar of Milk Thistle tea. You are going to be like the hip herbalists and carry your beverage around in a mason jar and drink it all day. One mason jar of tea is your daily dose. Milk Thistle contains Silymarin and studies show it supports the walls of the liver cells, preventing toxins from penetrating them. It also stimulates the regeneration of these cells, so it repairs the liver. The peppermint increases the effectiveness of milk thistle and improves its taste.
Making the tea:
1 Tbs of milk thistle seeds 1 Tbs of peppermint leaves Add 3 cups of water Steep for 20 minutes and strai
3. Water
Besides the morning lemon water and Milk Thistle seed tea, drink water throughout the day. Sipping plain hot water every 10-15 minutes can help to flush and rehydrate your body deeply. If you have a personal thermos, this is ideal. Just get used to carrying these items with you on days when you leave the house. Make it a habit.
4. Get 8 hours of sleep
Know how to get a good night of sleep! It is extremely important to be sleeping by 11 pm each night. Your liver does it’s cleaning between 10 pm and 2 pm each night. If you are still awake, (and god forbid drinking beer and eating pizza), it cannot properly do its cleaning job.
5. Avoid eating deep-fried anything – Eat Alive Food
Learn how to plan a healthy diet. A poor diet causes an accumulation of fat in the liver. – It can only take so much of this. When the liver is fat, it cannot function and gets one step closer to being damaged.
