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| Liver
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The Chemical Processing Center of your body, being responsible for performing
over 500 different processes. ANYTHING that would
interfere with normal liver function has a WIDESPREAD effect.
With normal liver function most if not all toxic substances are chemically altered
to make them less harmful. Some are
passed to your small intestine as part of bile (a digestive fluid your liver produces)
& some continue in your blood system to be filtered out by your kidneys &
eliminated in urine. Another responsibility is the regulation of the amount of
cholesterol in your blood. | |
| What
Harmful Deposits in your Liver have to do with Heart Disease |
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The toxic chemicals
in your blood that irritate the walls of your arteries, enter
your blood stream from your digestive tract, lungs and are absorbed through your
skin. Then they arrive
at your Liver where they should be handled, but they are NOT!
They remain in circulation, where they
continually irritate the walls of your arteries. They
are left in your blood, because the function of your Liver
is reduced. How did this reduced function of your liver happen? |  |
| THE
ANATOMY OF THE LIVER If we imagine the veins and arteries that carry our blood
as a closed circuit racetrack, we could well think of the liver as a required
"pit stop" on the circuit. The blood must pass through this checkpoint, and when
it does it is prepared for another circuit. The liver is designed to do this efficiently.
The liver is composed of about 100,000 liver lobules. A lobule is made of plates
that contain a number of liver cells. Between these plates of liver cells are
the passageways that allow blood to flow around the liver cells. Between the passageways
& cells are special cells called 'Kupffer' cells, that can digest bacteria
and other foreign matter found in the blood. When blood flows between the plates,
these cells process harmful and unnecessary matter to what the Kidneys can eliminate
from the blood or directly put it in bile for elimination through the intestines.
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Diet,
refining of foods & chemicals - used in processing foods, raising animals
you eat, drugs you take, etc. cause: 1) Stones to form which
block the bile ducts. This makes the amount of bile entering the small intestines
less than what it should be, which interferes with proper digestion & the
elimination of these toxic chemicals. With gallstones, much less cholesterol leaves
the body and cholesterol levels may rise. Retention of bile salts results in injury
to biological membranes throughout your body. 2) The liver
itself to accumulate deposits, reducing its ability to do its job.
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