What Can I Expect from the Liver and Gallbladder Flush?
Disease is not part of the body’s design. Symptoms of disease merely indicate that the body is trying to prevent serious harm or even a life-threatening situation from occurring. We become sick when our immune system is suppressed and overburdened with accumulated toxic waste. The response of the body to this type of extreme congestion is to clear the toxins in a number of different, and usually unpleasant, ways. The body’s methods of self-defense and cleansing often require pain, fever, infection, inflammation, and ulceration. In more serious cases, cancer and a buildup of plaque inside the arterial walls help avert the ill person’s imminent demise.[33] Most types of internal “suffocation” are preceded or accompanied by a blockage of the liver bile ducts. When the liver, which is the main factory and detoxification center of the body, becomes congested with gallstones, disease is a likely outcome.
When you clear the liver bile ducts from all obstructions and then adopt and maintain a balanced diet and lifestyle, your body naturally returns to a state of balance (homeostasis). This balanced state is what most people call “good health.” The old saying “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” applies most appropriately to the liver. If the liver is kept free of gallstones, the body’s balanced state is unlikely to be upset. Having a clean liver means having a clean bill of health.
Health insurance companies and their clients could greatly benefit from the liver and gallbladder flush in several important ways. These companies would be able to lower their premium rates and expenditures considerably, while the insured population would enjoy much better health, fewer sick days from work, and freedom from the fear and pain that typically accompany disease. Older generations would no longer be considered a burden, as they would be able to take care of themselves more and more rather than less and less. Health care costs could be cut drastically, which may be the only way to safeguard continued progress and prosperity in nations such as the United States and the United Kingdom. If the current trend of escalating health expenditures in the United States continues to grow as fast as it has in recent decades, major corporations are likely to end up bankrupt if they continue to offer health insurance as a benefit to their employees. In 2001, the cost of health care in the United States exceeded the $1 trillion mark, and in 2004, total health care spending amounted to $1.9 trillion. That represented 16 percent of the nation's GDP, and there is no end to this trend in sight. Healthcare spending is projected to double to $4 trillion over the next decade.
Good health care cannot be measured by how much money is being spent on treating symptoms of disease. Treating the symptoms of an illness inevitably requires further treatments, because the origins of disease are ignored and become worse if left unattended. According to the premise of modern medicine, to “successfully” treat symptoms, which implies suppressing the body’s own healing efforts, a patient needs to take recourse to poisonous drugs, radiation, or surgery. All these forms of medical intervention have harmful side effects, which in turn become the cause of new diseases that require further treatment. The quick-fix approach of suppressing symptoms of disease is a major cause of chronic illness, premature death, and, of course, spiraling health care costs. Over 900,000 people die each year unnecessarily as a direct result of side-effects from expensive medical treatments. By comparison, it is very inexpensive to actually cure disease and prevent new diseases from arising. Conventional health care is becoming less and less affordable for most people in the world and is likely to become a rare privilege for a relative few in the future. If the liver and gallbladder flush were being prescribed by doctors in the United States, even just to patients with gallbladder disease, it could help each of the 20 million gallstone sufferers to live a normal, comfortable life and eliminate or prevent numerous other related illnesses.
The liver flush does much more than merely restore proper gallbladder and liver functions; it helps people take active care of their health for the rest of their lives. Taking out an insurance policy against disease cannot guarantee a disease-free life. Good health develops naturally when you keep the body free of gallstones and other toxic waste deposits, and when you fulfill the most basic requirements for maintaining youthfulness and vitality throughout life.
Improved Digestion, Energy, and Vitality
“Good digestion” comprises three basic processes in the body:
•Ingested food is broken down into its nutrient components.
•Nutrients are absorbed and distributed to all the cells and then metabolized efficiently.
•The waste products resulting from the breakdown and utilization of food are all eliminated through the excretory organs and systems.
The body requires good digestion in order to guarantee continuous, efficient turnover of its 60 to 100 trillion cells. To sustain homeostasis, the body needs to make 30 billion new cells each day to replace the same number of old, worn-out, or damaged cells. If this process occurs smoothly, day after day and year after year, the new generations of cells in the body will be as effective and healthy as the previous ones. Even if certain cells, such as brain and heart cells, cannot be replaced (this theory is about to become obsolete), their constituents, such as carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen atoms (all of which make up the air we breathe), are nevertheless renewed continuously.
The natural turnover of cells or atoms, however, is no longer complete or efficient in the majority of people who live in a fast-paced world that has little time for a healthy lifestyle and balanced diet. People are unhealthy today because they eat unhealthy foods (and think unhealthy thoughts). In contrast, a nourishing diet consists of natural, unpolluted foods and fresh, clean water. Only very few societies have managed to maintain their youth and health at all age levels. Such peoples live in remote and secluded areas, such as the Abkhasian Mountains in Southern Russia; the Himalayan Mountains in India, Tibet, and China; the Andes in South America; and in parts of northern Mexico.. Their diet consists only of pure, fresh foods. Thankfully, you don’t need to live in remote areas of the world to be healthy. In fact, it is very normal, for example, to have completely clean blood vessels at age 100 or older (see Figure 14).
Figure 14: Open artery of a 100-year-old American woman
By cleansing our body and giving it the best possible treatment, we can all raise our quality of life to a high level of energy and vitality, which is the natural state of health that every human being deserves. A well-functioning digestive system and gallstone-free liver provide the main conditions through which the body can regulate the smooth turnover of cells without accumulating toxins. This is the best antidote to aging and disease any person can have.
Pain is a signal that the body uses to identify and correct certain problems or malfunctioning in the organs, systems, muscles, and joints. Pain is not a disease in itself, but instead is the sign of a proper immune response to an abnormal situation. An abnormal situation could mean congestion of lymph, blood, and waste matter. Any physical congestion leads to a poor supply of oxygen. Oxygen-deprived tissues almost always signal pain. When the pain subsides naturally through cleansing or the body’s removing the congestion (without the use of painkillers), it shows that the body has returned to a state of balance. Chronic pain indicates that the immune response and self-cleansing ability of the body is not sufficient and that the cause of the problem is still active and intact.
Cleansing the liver and gallbladder of all gallstones can help to reduce and eliminate pain in the body, regardless of whether it is located in the joints, head, nerves, muscles, or organs. The body is only as healthy as the blood and lymph are. If the blood and lymph contain large amounts of toxins, as occurs when there is congestion in the liver, then irritation, inflammation and infection, or damage to cells and tissues in the weakest parts of body may result. If the functions of digestion, metabolism, and the elimination of waste materials in the body are impaired as a result of poor liver performance, the immune system cannot accomplish its healing work in the body.
The healing response is dependent on the efficiency of the immune system, the greatest part of which is located in the intestinal tract. The liver, which is the main organ controlling digestion and cellular metabolism, must be free of all obstructions (gallstones) in order to prevent the immune system from being stressed and overtaxed. If immunity is low in the intestines, it will also be depressed in all other parts of the body. Pain relief occurs automatically once congestion subsides and the immune system returns to its full power and efficiency. Pain is not something that requires treatment, unless it is unbearable. You would not try fighting the darkness of the night when all you need to do is to switch on the light. It is, in fact, unwise to kill the messenger (pain) that tries to warn you about an approaching enemy. Since chronic pain is caused by chronic congestion, the liver, intestines, kidneys, and lymphatic system should be cleansed before attempting to treat the pain. In almost every case, this approach relieves all pain and restores vibrant health along with proper immune functions.
Physical flexibility is a measure of how well the organs, joints, muscles, connective tissues, and cells are nourished by the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe. The digestive and metabolic processes that make these nutrients and substances available to the cells need to be in top condition for health to be a real and long-lasting outcome. Stiffness in the joints and muscles indicates the presence of acidic metabolic waste products in these parts of the body owing to poor digestive and eliminative functions.
Anyone who practices yoga, gymnastics, or any other form of exercise and does several liver flushes will notice greatly increased flexibility of the spine, joints, and muscles. Deposits of mineral salts in the neck and shoulder areas begin to lessen, and aches and stiffness disappear. The whole body feels more “connected,” as the connective tissues that keep the cells together become more supple and fluid again.
A river of pure, clean water flows more easily and with less friction than a river that is filled with filth and mud. One of the liver’s most important functions is to keep the blood thin so that it can distribute nutrients to the cells, collect waste materials, and carry messenger hormones to their destinations on time. Thick blood is a common denominator for most illnesses in the body, and you can recognize it by a lack of flexibility in certain parts of the body, along with other symptoms, including tiredness. If the spine and joints are permanently stiff and painful, this indicates that most of the internal organs are suffering from circulatory problems. Blood circulation greatly improves when gallstones cease to congest the liver. This leads to increased flexibility and mobility throughout the body. A good and regular exercise program helps to support and maintain this newly found flexibility.
A flexible body also suggests that the mind is open and adaptable. A rigid body, by contrast, is a sign of a rigid and fearful mind. As the body is supplied with thinner blood, and as hardened structures begin to soften again, your mental attitude also becomes more expansive and accommodating. This enhances your ability to flow with the opportunities of life in the present moment, adding greater joy and fulfillment to each new day.
Many people view aging as an unavoidable phenomenon that, like a disease, will afflict them eventually. However, this viewpoint applies only to its “negative” consequences. You can just as well see aging as a positive growth process that makes life richer, increases wisdom, and enhances experience and maturity—all assets that are rarely found in one’s youth. The negative aspect of the aging process, with which the majority of people identify, is a metabolic disorder that develops gradually over a period of time.
The unwanted effects of aging result from malfunctioning that occurs on the cellular level. When the body’s cells are unable to remove their daily-generated metabolic waste material fast enough, some of it is deposited in the cell membranes. In fact, the cell membranes become cellular “garbage cans.” The cells cannot rid themselves of all their own waste because the surrounding connective tissue is congested with other waste material (owing to lymphatic blockage). In due time, inefficient waste disposal becomes more pronounced and apparent in the body. The withheld waste gradually cuts off the cells’ supply of oxygen, nutrients, and water, and increasingly thickens their membranes. The cell membranes of a newborn baby are very thin, nearly colorless, and transparent. The average 70-year-old person today has cell membranes that are at least five times as thick as are those found in a baby’s body. The membranes’ color is generally brown and, in some cases, even black. This cell-degenerative process is what we generally refer to as “aging.”
During normal aging, which begins right from the beginning of life, all cells in the body are routinely replaced with new cells. On the other hand, during abnormal aging, the newly created cells are not as healthy as the old ones were. The affected tissues or groups of cells have become weaker and suffer malnutrition, thereby giving the new generation of cells a poor start in life. Consequently, before long, the membranes of the new cells also become clogged up. They have no chance to develop into healthy young cells. As more and more of the cells and the surrounding connective tissues become saturated with toxic substances, entire organs in the body begin to age and deteriorate as well.
The skin, which is the largest organ in the body, also begins to suffer from malnourishment. Consequently, it may lose some of its former elasticity, change its natural color, become dry and rough, and develop blemishes that consist of metabolic waste products. At this stage, the negative aspect of the aging process becomes visible on the outside. Therefore, it is obvious that external aging, which is a direct result of defective cell metabolism, starts inside the body.
Impaired digestion and liver function are the main causes of inefficient cell metabolism. Both functions improve dramatically when all existing gallstones in the liver and gallbladder are eliminated and other toxic waste materials are removed from the organs, tissues, and cells through simple methods of cleansing (as discussed in this book). As soon as the cells begin to shed their “dark skin” (a natural result of the cleansing), the absorption of oxygen, nutrients, and water increases, and so does cell vitality. As digestion and metabolism continue to improve, instead of being old and tired, the cells will become young and dynamic again. This is the time when the aging process actually reverses, and the positive aspects of aging begin to dominate.
The results of steadily improving cell metabolism will affect the way you feel about your inner self as much as they will show on the outside. Older people look radiant and youthful when they are truly healthy. Young people can look quite old if their bodies are toxic and tired. Naturally, if you want to achieve outer beauty, you must develop inner beauty first.
If your body has accumulated a lot of waste material, it is not capable of imbuing you with a sense of beauty and worthiness. There are still groups of indigenous people living in the most remote parts of the world who enjoy perfect health and vitality. They regularly purge their liver, kidneys, and intestines with oils, herbs, and fluids. These practices have become lost to modern societies whose main emphasis is on improving the superficial physical appearance and, in the case of an illness, fixing its symptoms rather than removing its cause.
Those who have done a series of liver flushes report that they feel much better about their body, their life, and their environment. In many cases, the person’s self-esteem and ability to appreciate others improves as the body becomes increasingly purified. The liver flush can greatly contribute toward developing vitality and inner beauty. This will not only help to slow or reverse the aging process, but will also make you feel more youthful and attractive, regardless of your age.
The liver flush has direct implications on how you feel about yourself and others. Under stress, you are likely to become irritable, annoyed, frustrated, and even angry. Most people assume that stress has something to do with the external problems they face in their lives. Yet this is only partially true. Our response to certain issues, situations, or people is only negative because we are not able to cope with them.
The liver, which maintains the nervous system by supplying it with vital nutrients, also determines our stress response. Gallstones impede the proper distribution of nutrients, which forces the body to take recourse to several emergency measures, including the excessive secretion of stress hormones. For a short while, this quick first-aid measure helps to maintain most bodily functions, but eventually the body’s equilibrium becomes disturbed and the nervous system is thrown off balance. Given this imbalanced state of affairs, any external pressure or demanding situation may trigger an exaggerated stress response that, in turn, may give rise to the feeling of being stressed or overwhelmed.
Our emotional health is intimately linked to our physical health. Cleansing the liver and keeping it clean helps maintain emotional balance. When you remove your gallstones you also root out any deep-seated anger and resentment that may have been stored there for a long time (the body holds onto various emotions in different body parts). The relief that comes with letting go of past, unresolved issues may create a new sense of being alive. Moreover, the feelings of freedom and euphoria that you commonly experience almost immediately after a liver flush, indicate what can lie in store for you once your liver and gallbladder are completely cleansed.
A Clearer Mind and Improved Creativity
Clarity of mind, memory recall, creativity, and the ability to concentrate and focus attention all depend on how well the brain and nervous system are nourished. An ineffective circulatory system has a dulling and suppressing effect on all mental processes. This, in turn, stresses and strains the nervous system.
With each new liver flush you undertake, you are likely to notice a further improvement in your mental faculties. Many people report that their mind becomes less turbulent and more relaxed. Others report a sudden influx of expansive thoughts that help to improve their work performance and creative output. Artists generally find an opening of a new dimension to their creative expression, including a more acute perception of colors, shapes, and forms.
Those involved in techniques of spiritual growth or self-improvement will find that the elimination of all gallstones in the liver may help them to gain access to deeper, formerly hidden areas within themselves and to use more of their mental potential. The liver flush particularly helps balance the solar plexus chakra. The solar plexus represents the energy center in the body responsible for willpower, energy absorption, and distribution, as well as functions of the liver, gallbladder, stomach, pancreas, and spleen. This central switchboard for physical and emotional activities becomes far more comfortable after doing a series of liver flushes.