Liver cleansing

[Northumberland14]

Does liver cleanses help with healing the liver

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No. Just a healthy diet, exercise and drinking plenty of water plus tea and coffee without added sugar is all your liver needs to recover and allow it time to heal. Don't take any suppliments which aren't prescribed by your doctor. Many of the online suppliments and so called liver cleansers can cost a fortune and are likely to cause further damage to your liver. Good luck

Laura

[Richard-Allen]

This subject pops up from time to time, and I always prefer to sound a word of caution here.

Over the years there have been a number of different companies advertising on the internet especially Amazon. I'm not going to name some of these companies for legal reasons, but they do tend to make bold claims,. One company even claiming that using their detox supplement can reverse liver cirrhosis.

Sady some of these companies aren't registered at companies house, so you can't even know who their CEO is, or where they are based as most of them use forwarding addresses.

When I started to look into all this back in Feb 2019. There was one company I found that was selling a liver detox supplement, and the company was registered with companies house. However, the address of the registered company turned out to be "Heathers Rest Home" in Sutton Coldfield. So a lot of caution is needed here.

Finally I would say that human beings have been around for 200,000 years. During that time livers have been working pretty well on the whole, without the need for detox.

Just be careful that you don't end up doing more harm than good, to both your body and your wallet.

Liver Detox

[RammieLea in reply to Richard-Allen]

I actually didn’t even think about that... I believed this whole reversing liver disease or liver detox was real...Actually heartbreaking know that there’s a scam in everything...

[BagOfNerves]

In my opinion, liver cleanses don't work.

The liver itself is the organ that helps to detox your body, and "flushing" or "cleansing it" has no real basis in truth. Unless a doctor literally took our livers out and washed them in the sink, our livers can't be cleansed

It can however be supported so it can do its job, and even reverse some damage. A nutritious diet that doesn't put extra strain on the liver, no alcohol, and exercise are all ways you can help your liver to do what it was made to do. It can even start healing itself when it gets the support it needs. That's as close to a cleanse as you can get

Supplements, herbs, or specialised detox regimes are just another thing for the liver to process. Extra hard work for a liver that is already struggling. So, these cleanses and detoxes could actually be doing more harm than good.

Let's just say there's a lot of money to be made for people who sell detoxes and cleanses of any kind, because they rely on the body already doing the things they claim their product does. A lot of people sadly spend way too much money on what is essentially a placebo.

The people who feel improvement in their symptoms when using detoxes etc are usually already concious of their liver health, and have likely cleaned up other areas of their lifestyle to try and help themselves. Those lifestyle changes are almost certainly what made them feel better, but they attribute it to the detox.