The Liver and Colonics

Many of us already know that the liver is our blood filter but some of us are unaware that our liver performs over 500 functions.  It is also responsible for storing nutrients, producing bile and other proteins, recycling haemoglobin, converting glucose for later use as energy, removing dead red blood cells and producing heparin to prevent blood from clotting in the vessels, to name but a very few.

If our liver is busy with the job of filtering toxins from the blood, it doesn’t manage to perform all of its other functions quite to the level it was designed for.  The situation with toxicity in the blood is not easily fixed as our understanding of the foods we eat and their effect on our bodies is an area where a great deal of education is needed by many.  For example, the caffeine in one cup of coffee, once in the body, takes the liver 24 hours to break down.  If you imagine a diet that consists of three cups of coffee per day along with a high caffeine energy drink or two, followed with a bar of chocolate before bed, the caffeine that the liver needs to process in that one day is way beyond its capacity.  It falls behind and cannot manage to perform some of its other tasks. Its owner, upon waking the next day, feels sluggish, tired or lethargic and reaches, before any other form of nourishment, for the first cup of coffee of the day.