Liver Rescue Morning

hello everyone! In this blog post I am going to share the best way to maintain a healthy liver.   This information comes from the one and only Medical Medium – Anthony William’s Liver Rescue book. If you are not in the know about the Medical Medium you can read about his gift and advanced medical information HERE

The liver rescue book from the MM is a 461 page encyclopedia – I am loving reading this book, learning tons and now I will share some invaluable knowledge about how to preserve and keep your liver safe. Before I do, I invite you to take a moment and consider the size of your liver – it weighs about 4-5 pounds and sits on the right side of your body below your right breast. Your liver is a filtration system, every single food, beverage, vitamin, pill you ingest is now your livers work to process. Your liver also deals with all hormonal changes, excess adrenaline, heavy metals floating around in the air or ingested, stress chemicals, mental, emotional and physical encounters we all experience. Wow, that says a lot right? No matter what your liver absorbs from your environment – what it does not recognize and cannot break down to release, it stores in deep pockets within itself to protect us.

Given the size of our liver and how hard it works for us to keep us healthy, it makes sense to me that at some point the liver might want a break. How can we expect our liver to function at 100% for us if it’s tired and worn out? Over time as the liver holds onto excess toxins it can become fatty, stagnant and or sluggish. The following is a direct quote from The Liver Rescue:

“There is no such thing as a fast or slow metabolism, metabolism is nothing more than the antiquated discovery that the body is a living organism that assimilates food and used it for energy. Telling people they have a slow metabolism often leads to despair. Weight gain is really about the liver. While two other factors, the thyroid and adrenals can often be involved, it’s important to remember that they both lead back to the liver.”

At night, your liver goes to sleep at the same time you do. After a few hours of rest it wakes up around 3 or 4 am and gets to work gathering toxins and poisons in your body. The first thing your liver wants in the morning is to be hydrated, so it can flush out dirty blood and toxins. If you don’t flush out the waste your liver has gathered to release, your liver will be forced to re-absorb it. Hydrating when you wake, jumpstarts your liver to continue detoxing. Lemon/limes improve hydrochloric acid & bile production and much more. Celery restores the liver’s bile production capability. Cucumbers keep your liver and blood hydrated as well they flush and aid the adrenals & much more.

Here are the protocols for a liver rescue morning:

Upon waking, brush your teeth first so you clean your mouth of bacteria before you ingest anything. Next consume one of the following first: a pint size glass of water with half a lemon or lime squeezed in. The citrus grabs onto the toxins your liver has gathered and draws them out of your body. 16 ounces of cucumber or celery juice. You can choose what works for you each day. Next avoid radical fats before noon, as soon as you bring them in your liver stops the detoxing process. Radical fats are: nuts, nut butters, seeds, oil, avocado, cheese, milk, whey protein, sausage, eggs, ham, bacon, butter, turkey, chicken, yogurt, coconut etc. Your liver switches over to producing bile to digest the fats, and from then on it’s focused on its other work for the day. The detox window closes.  With the liver rescue morning you keep the detox window open and support your liver so it can stay balanced.

Having shared all of this, I want to add – please listen to your body. It’s true that you will want to have some consecutive mornings like this to give your liver a true rest, like 10 days if you can is a good start. Maybe you’ll continue like that for a long time and maybe sometimes you will want a coffee or are meeting a friend for an early breakfast and want to enjoy some baked goods. The key is to flow in your life, in all areas with how you feel, being rigid is corrosive to our insides and produces fear that causes much more ill health than any food we might ingest.

For myself, I do start my day with lemon or lime water, then an herbal tea, usually nettle leaf or red clover to further cleanse my liver. After this I make a green smoothie and in the late morning I often have a coffee. 6 weeks ago I did the liver rescue morning for 3 weeks – minus the coffee of course and I felt really good and continue to do so. I hope you enjoyed this post, please message me directly for any questions. Thank you for your time!

I am hosting a yoga retreat RADIATE AND REPLENISH in Baja Mexico with my friend Jayme Burke February 2020 for one week. I will be teaching Yin yoga every day and speaking extensively about organ, meridian, emotional and mental health. Jayme will teach a dynamic, playful, strenthening morning class. Check out the details here YOGA ESCAPES

To your health, Lara