Fatty Liver- causes and symptoms

You’d be surprised the difference a liver cleanse will make to the way you look and feel.  A fatty liver will make you feel lethargic and life is a whole lot harder when you don’t have the energy.

Cleansing your liver will help you burn foods quicker and eliminate the nasties. You will feel better and your liver will love you.

We’ve included Detox Juices for you to try plus lots of helpful information to inspire you to clean yourself up from the inside out. Make the change and love the difference!  

Did you know that perhaps the simplest lifestyle change that you can make to assist with reversing your fatty liver is to drink lemon water? Lemon in warm water works a treat. It’s good for getting things moving in the morning and it’s natural.

 

 

You will feel immediately more energized and if you can get into the habit of having it throughout the day, you are going to notice the numerous benefits in no time. It is the ultimate body cleanser and it really does you so much good.

Green Tea is also incredibly beneficial for you. If you are serious about getting your liver in shape, drop off the caffeine and make the switch. There are some great herbal tea blends.

Symptoms of a Fatty Liver -:

Fatty liver is a common complaint with the usual age group being in the 40-60 year range. It affects around 20% of Americans and the good news is that it’s a reversible condition.

You may be experiencing fatigue, brain fog or rapid weight loss with no real explanation. Sometimes symptoms are not apparent. If your alcohol consumption is high and you eat a lot of processed and fatty foods, chances are your liver needs an overhaul.

The exhaustion you are feeling is your liver flagging. When it is clean, your body runs like a dream. It is an organ that can have enormous positive effect on so many aspects of our life and body, it is worth the effort to keep it in tip-top condition.

              

15 Signs Your Liver is Stressed -:

• fatigue
• brain fog
• headache
• chronic joint or muscle pain
• digestion issues including gas, heartburn, bloating, diarrhea or constipation, and abdominal pain
• insomnia
• autoimmune diseases
• hormonal imbalances like PMS or menopausal symptoms
• acne or skin rashes
• anxiety or depression
• allergies
• inflammation
• chemical sensitivities
• chronic bad breath
• weight gain

                   

Home Remedies For A Fatty Liver

As mentioned previously, fatty liver is completely reversible. You will need to make dietary changes. Here’s some things that you can do that will have an immediate positive effect on your liver.

Add One tablespoon raw unfiltered apple cider vinegar to a glass of warm water. To sweeten, you can add a little honey. Drink this 2 times daily before your Meals. Follow this remedy for 1-2 months.

Drink 3-4 cups of Green Tea daily to help improve liver functioning and reduce body weight.

Squeeze the juice of half a lemon in warm water, drink it several times a day for a month.

Mix 1/4 teaspoon Turmeric Powder in a glass of water and boil. Drink it twice daily for a couple of weeks.

Some further dietary changes you should look at making include -:

• Avoid all types of high fructose corn syrup.
• Avoid all white flour and instead replace with whole grain products.
• Eat foods rich in Omega 3 Fatty Acids such as fatty fish, fish oil, flaxseeds, walnuts and Tofu.
• Eat detoxifying and rejuvenating vegetables like Broccoli, Kale and Cabbage

Dr Axe shares some great tips with us when it comes to cleansing your liver – here’s his suggestions -:

1. Remove toxic foods from your diet
2. Drink Raw Vegetable Juice
3. Load Up on Potassium Rich Foods
4. Do Coffee Enemas
5. Take Milk Thistle, Dandelion and Turmeric Supplements
6. Eat Real Beef Liver or Take Liver Tablets

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Apple Cinnamon Detox Water

Slice Fuji apples and place them in a pitcher with a stick of cinnamon. Add ice, then fill with water. Allow to chill in fridge 15 minutes, then enjoy. This drink burns calories and helps you deal with liver stones because apples open the bile ducts due to the malic acid they contain.

Strawberry Spa Water

Hull and slice one pound of strawberries and place in a pitcher with filtered water. Then put the mix in fridge overnight. Enjoy with ice. The strawberries will help with liver breakdown that helps get rid of compounds that cause cancer. Also, the Vitamin C in strawberries will help flush fats from the liver.

Jillian Micheals Detox Water

Brew organic dandelion root tea as directed. Next, let it cool to room temperature and add one tablespoon of cranberry juice and two tablespoons of lemon juice. This drink, mixed with 60 ounces of distilled water, will help your body flush fat and lose weight.

Natural Belly Slimming Detox Water

Add one lemon, one orange, 10 fresh mint leaves, one medium cucumber and two liters of water to a pitcher filled with ice. Allow to cool in fridge. One hour is the minimum, but the longer you can leave it in the fridge to chill, the better the taste will be.

Flat Belly Detox Water

Cube watermelon and freeze it. Then add it to a large jar, add 10 mint leaves and fill with filtered water. For best results, allow to chill for 10 minutes. Then you can drink it. The water will help replace other beverages that are bad for you while providing a way to get rid of toxins and increase your metabolism. Lemon juice also helps with metabolism, so if you need a bigger boost, add lemon juice.

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Liver Detox Juice Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 small beets
• 1 fennel bulb
• 2 carrots
• 1 lime

Instructions: Wash your produce and run through your juicer. This recipe doesn’t blend well, so use a juicer. Consume right away, or store for up to 24 hours. If you want to store this juice for longer, freeze it.

 

It’s important to know what to eat and what to avoid and Dr Axe has put together this great list. Keeping it natural and avoiding processed and packaged foods is a great place to start. Factory farmed animal products like fish and conventional dairy are other good omissions. Consider looking at Organic fruit and veg that is free of chemical pesticides and herbicides too.

          

 The above 3 Liver Detox Drinks were found on Curejoy and they are ideal for flushing toxins out of the liver and eliminating belly fat. You can select from Bell Pepper Detox, Green Tea Citrus and also the Golden Liver Flush that includes powerful Turmeric as an ingredient. Be sure to add them to your list.

We can personally vouch for the benefits of a cleansed Liver. In fact, only recently we went on the Liver Cleansing Diet for a second time. The best part is the delicious food. You are never hungry and your shape changes dramatically.
The downside is the scales are slow to move. It’s a gradual weight loss that has more chance of staying off. The more weight you are carrying, the quicker it drops off.
If you want a sustainable plan that is easy to follow, you will love this. The level of your energy massively increases the cleaner your liver becomes. 

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A SIMPLE TRICK TO CUE THE RISK OF UTI

Drinking plenty of water each day may have an unexpected benefit -- keeping away urinary tract infections, a new study reports.

Young women plagued by UTIs who drank an additional 6 cups of water each day were nearly half -- 48 percent -- as likely as a control group to have another infection, the study showed.

The water group also reduced their use of antibiotics by roughly half -- or 47 percent.

What's more, the amount of time that passed before a woman's next UTI and between recurrent infections was longer in the water group than in the control group.

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Women are more prone to UTIs than men, partly due to their anatomy. A shorter urethra makes it easier for bacteria from rectum to enter the vagina and travel to the bladder.

Study author said it's thought that increasing fluid intake decreases UTI risk in two ways: by preventing bacteria from adhering to the bladder and by reducing the overall concentration of bacteria that could cause an infection.

"Flushing bacteria out of the bladder, it's been known, at least it's been thought, that it is protective. This study suggests that it is," said the Dr.

Another Dr., who wasn't involved in the study, called the additional fluid intake "substantial," leading to a corresponding increase in urine output.

"It is the urine output which is of course the key factor leading to the effect seen in the study," said the Urologist.

A Dr. said the study "may be a game changer" for antibiotic "stewardship" programs aimed at reducing inappropriate antibiotic use.

She cited a 2010 review estimating that 11 million to 12 million women a year will suffer from a UTI, accounting for 1.6 billion antibiotic prescriptions a year.

"We might not even need to use antibiotics," she said.

The study, involved 140 healthy pre-menopausal women who had at least three UTIs in the past year. All reported low daily fluid intake. They drank roughly four cups of fluid per day, including just 2 cups of water a day. 

Half of the women in the study were asked to consume 1.5 liters of water, each day in addition to their usual daily fluid intake. Specifically, they were asked to begin drinking a 1/2-liter water bottle at each meal and finish each bottle before the next meal.

The remaining women served as a control group. They continued their usual fluid intake.

The women were followed for a year, with clinic visits at the beginning of the study as well as 6 and 12 months later.

Researchers measured their water and fluid intake; urine volume, frequency and concentration; and symptoms. They also called the women each month to assess compliance and counsel them to return to the clinic for evaluation and possible treatment if they were experiencing UTI symptoms.

Overall, the water group increased daily water intake by close to 5 cups a day. Their total daily fluid intake, including water and other beverages, averaged nearly 12 cups.

By contrast, the control group's total daily fluid intake was less than half of that.

Dr. noted that it's not clear exactly how much fluid intake must increase to deliver a benefit.
"There's no magic in a liter-and-a-half," he said. 

Likewise, he believes any increase in fluid -- not just water -- may be beneficial since fluids are mostly water. And while the study involved younger women, he said older women who experience recurrent UTIs may benefit from increasing their daily fluid intake as well. 

Whether the advice would benefit women with normal urine output, however, is unclear, Dr. noted. 

"In addition, the bother associated with the higher urine output, and feasibility of implementing this water intake strategy across a range of occupations and ages, requires further study as well," he said.

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Codeine, a widely prescribed painkiller, can also be purchased over the counter in preparations of cold/cough remedies but over consumption of such medicines can lead to a "confususional" state and loss of the ability to create new memories, says a new study.
There is little evidence showing benefits of codeine in cough remedies, and the risks associated with codeine use in over the counter cough suppressants may be "particularly unnecessary" because of the lack of evidence, the experts said.
An article in the journal BMJ Case Reports described the first published case of confusional state in a healthy 14-year-old girl attributed to excessive consumption of over the counter cough medicine that contained codeine.
Codeine intoxication symptoms often include central nervous system depression, respiratory depression, severe itching of the skin, and flushing. Confusion is a relatively unusual complaint.
However, in this particular case, the teenage girl experienced confusion and the loss of the ability to create new memories.
She falsely reported to have completed tasks, for example, by claiming to have showered when it was obvious to her mother that she had not.
She slept up to 20 hours a day, had a decreased attention span and suffered from intermittent headaches.
Before these symptoms, the patient experienced flu-like symptoms over a 15 day period, during which she was absent from school. She had been taking 2-3 spoonfuls daily of codeine cough suppressant, oral codeine phosphate, over this time.
The patient had not exceeded the recommended daily dosage of three-six spoonfuls, but she had exceeded the maximum recommended duration of usage of three days.
Each spoonful is equivalent to 15 mg of codeine, and the patient consumed a total of 450-675 mg over 15 days, instead of the recommended maximum dosage of 270 mg during any given course of treatment.
A urine test reported positive for codeine, and no other drugs were present.
The doctors warned that there have been many reported child and adolescent deaths following codeine use, and they concluded that "the combination of lack of efficacy, risk of acute intoxication and dependence, suggests that the use of OTC (over the counter) codeine preparations may be unwarranted."

Hypoglycemia & How it Affects Our Lives

Have you noticed that when you (or a loved-one) wait too long between meals, you become irritable, confused, nauseated or fatigued? That means you’re most likely experiencing symptoms of postprandial hypoglycemia.

What is postprandial hypoglycemia? Postprandial hypoglycemia (also known as “Reactive hypoglycemia”) translates as “Low blood sugar which occurs after eating”. In postprandial hypoglycemia, a non-diabetic person experiences reoccurring symptoms similar to those of medical hypoglycemia. Medical hypoglycemia is a state where there are abnormally low levels of glucose in the blood, resulting in an inadequate supply of it to the brain. What causes hypoglycemia? Postprandial hypoglycemia usually manifests about 4 hours after consuming a large carbohydrate meal or a high consumption of glucose. Healthy adults maintain a blood glucose level of around four mmol/L when between meals. If the level drops below four mmol/L, hypoglycemic symptoms may appear. The  (NIH) states that "The causes of most cases of reactive hypoglycemia are still open to debate. Some researchers suggest that certain people may be more sensitive to the body’s normal release of the hormone epinephrine, which causes many of the symptoms of hypoglycemia. Others believe deficiencies in glucagon secretion might lead to reactive hypoglycemia.”

Symptoms: Double vision or blurry vision Unclear thinking Sleeping Trouble Heart palpitation or fibrillation Fatigue Dizziness Light-headedness Sweating Headaches Depression Nervousness Muscle twitches Irritability Tremors Flushing Craving sweets Increased appetite Rhinitis Nausea, vomiting Panic attack Numbness/coldness in the extremities Confusion Coma can be a result in severe untreated episodes

Treatment You can purchase a blood glucose meter in most pharmacies if you wish to test the levels of glucose in your blood. The NIH recommends taking the following steps: Eat small meals and snacks every 3 hours. Avoid or limit sugar intake Eat a variety of foods, including meat, poultry, fish, or nonmeat sources of protein, foods such as whole-grains, fruits, vegetables, and dairy products Prefer high-fiber foods Regular Exercise (exercise increases sugar uptake which decrease excessive insulin release) Foods you should avoid: Sugar (white / dark) Honey and molasses Corn, rice, maple and fruit syrups Candies, cookies and chocolate Cakes, pies, pastries and muffins Milk, ice cream, frozen yogurt and pudding Jelly, jam Alcoholic beverages Carbonated drinks Caffeinated drinks Potatoes, white rice Noodles, pastas and spaghetti Dried Fruit, grapes, figs, bananas, dates and plums Grape and Prune Juice Dishes containing corn starch and refined flour Artificial sweeteners Sweetened condiments Starchy vegetables (like corn) Foods that are good for you: Wholegrain breads, cereals, crackers made with little and no sugars Fresh fruits and vegetables Decaff coffee and tea Carbonated and regular water Brown rice and whole grain pasta Raw nuts, unsweetened nut butter Organic poultry, meats, fish and shellfish    THIS IS ONLY FOR INFORMATION, ALWAYS CONSULT YOU PHYSICIAN BEFORE HAVING ANY PARTICULAR FOOD/ MEDICATION/EXERCISE/OTHER REMEDIES. PS- THOSE INTERESTED IN RECIPES ARE FREE TO VIEW MY BLOG- HTTP:GSEASYRECIPES.BLOGSPOT.COM/ FOR INFO ABOUT KNEE REPLACEMENT, YOU CAN VIEW MY BLOG- HTTP://KNEE REPLACEMENT-STICK CLUB.BLOGSPOT.COM/ FOR CROCHET DESIGNS HTTP://MY CROCHET CREATIONS.BLOGSPOT.COM