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Fifteen Ways to Love Your Liver

1. Put the six-pack back, Jack
Half of all the alcohol consumed in America is consumed by only ten
percent of the population. One in three adult Americans is a heavy
drinker, with a sufficient liquor habit to be indistinguishable from
an alcoholic. Such behavior wrecks livers.

Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis of the liver is a rather rare disease, except among
alcoholics... who make it the seventh leading cause of death in the
U.S.! And it is 4th or 5th, in large cities among adult men. It
usually takes a half quart of whiskey daily for ten years to abuse
the liver to the point of cirrhosis. The fibrous tissue that eplaces
normal liver in cirrhosis causes decreased liver function. Of course
this leads to fluid buildup, jaundice and perhaps cancer of the
liver. Cirrhosis is fairly easy to arrest by stopping alcohol. But
cure is difficult and generally considered impossible. Well, as they
say in the Marines, the difficult we do immediately; the impossible
takes a little longer. Reversing cirrhosis is reduced to being
merely very difficult if you employ the Gerson program (referenced
below) and very high doses of vitamin C and B-complex vitamins. The
corticosteroids (Prednisone) are commonly tried but the side effects
are undesirable, and the drug is probably ineffective. Prevention is
the way to go: stop drinking. Sure, as W. C. Fields said, "It's easy
to give up drinking; I've done it a thousand times.' But
consider this: Fields, the highest paid comic of his time, who
drank over a quart of hard liquor a day, was dead at age 66. That's
not so funny.

2. Avoid the virus, Iris
Hepatitis- Acute viral hepatitis, or "infectious hepatitis" is now
called hepatitis A. "Chronic," "long incubation," "serum,"
and "posttransfusion" are now called type B. Non-A non-B may be more
than one agent. All respond remarkably well to very large doses of
vitamin C, the B-complex vitamins and the Gerson therapy, described
below.

3. Take a lot more "C," Lee Vincent Zannoni at the University of
Michigan Medical School has shown that vitamin C protects the liver.
Even doses as low as 500 milligrams daily helps prevent fatty
buildup and cirrhosis. 5,000 mg of vitamin C per day appears to
actually flush fats from the liver. (Ritter, M. "Study
Says Vitamin C Could Cut Liver Damage," Associated Press, October
11, 1986) And vitamin C over 50,000 mg/day (not a misprint) results
in patients feeling better in just a few days, and actually
eliminates jaundice in under a week. (Cathcart, Robert F. III (1981)
The method of determining proper doses of vitamin C for the
treatment of disease by titrating to bowel tolerance. Journal of
Orthomolecular Psychiatry. 10:125-132.) Frederick Klenner, MD, found
that such huge doses of vitamin C had his patients recovered and
back to work in under a week. (Klenner, Frederick R. (1971)

Observations on the dose of administration of ascorbic acid when
employed beyond the range of a vitamin in human pathology. Journal
of Applied Nutrition. 23(3 and 4), pp 61-68, Winter.) These and
additional references are found in the highly-recommended book by
Melvyn Werbach, MD (1988) Nutritional Influences on Illness. New
Canaan, CT: Keats Publishing. Immediate and detailed information on
vitamin C dosage and administration, written by medical doctors,
will be found at

http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html
http://www.doctoryourself.com/ortho_c.html
http://www.doctoryourself.com/klenner_table.html
http://www.doctoryourself.com/klennerpaper.html

4. Don't trust in a shot, Dot
Even if you choose to vaccinate, it is immeasurably reassuring to
remember this: Dr. Klenner showed that very large doses of vitamin C
(between 500 to 900 mg per kilogram body weight per day) can cure
hepatitis in as little as two to four days (Smith, L. H., ed.
Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C, Life Science Press, Tacoma
Washington, 1988, pp 22-23).

5. Take vitamin B, Dee
Especially vitamin B-12, which significantly reduces jaundice,
anorexia, serum bilirubin, and recovery time. (Jain, A.S.C.,
Mukerji, D. P (1960) Observations on the therapeutic value of
intravenous B-12 in infective hepatitis. Journal of the Indian
Medical Association. 35:502-5; also Campbell, R. E. and Pruitt, F.W.
(1952) Vitamin B-12 in the treatment of viral hepatitis. American
Journal of Medical Science, 224:252) B-12 is most effective if
administered by injection, which your doctor can easily arrange. If
injection is not an option, there is an intra-nasal gel that
improves absorption. B-12 is non-prescription, utterly non-toxic,
and has no contraindications and no negative side effects.

6. Eat veggies and greens, Gene
The fiber and abundant nutrients in vegetables are a sure way to
improve the health of practically any organ you can name, especially
the liver. Vegetables are esentially fat-free. And, they are rich in
the B-vitamin folic acid. (Folic, like in foliage. Neat, huh?)
Folate has been shown to help shorten the recovery time for viral
hepatitis. (Campbell, R. E. and Pruitt, F. W. (1955) The effect of
vitamin B-12 and folic acid in the treatment of viral hepatitis.
American Journal of Medical Science, 229:8)

7. Eat your food raw, Paw
Or at least as much of it as you can. Max Gerson, M.D. believed
that cancer in general is a disease of the liver even if occurring
elsewhere in the body. Gerson's nutritional therapy is a raw-foods
protocol that is often very effective against cancer, as well as
lesser diseases. Cancer in the liver itself is often due to
environmental toxins, such as dry-cleaning fluids. I have personally
seen a terminal liver cancer case (and the patient had indeed been a
dry cleaner for many years) vastly improved with the Gerson program.
Full dietary details are provided in his book A Cancer Therapy:
Results of 50 Cases.

8. Get off the drugs, Doug
Illegal drugs of all sorts (and not a few prescription drugs as
well) are rough on the liver. This includes anabolic steroids. The
liver is the main chemical detoxification center for your entire
body. Don't push it; quit now before your liver quits on you.

9. Eat less fat, Matt
The liver is the largest gland in the body, weighing in at about 4
pounds. Diseases of the liver may result in diminished ability to
emulsify fats. Your liver normally makes 250 to 1,000 ml (over a
quart!) of bile DAILY. Most (about 80%) of your bile salts are
reabsorbed by the intestinal tract and returned to and recycled by
the liver. This is how your body, with about 3.6 grams of total bile
salts in it, can secrete 4 to 8 g of bile salts per single fatty
meal. Gross, huh? Fatty liver is much more common than you would
expect. 25% of people have this condition, according to the Merck
Manual, 14th ed. Fatty liver is the most common response of the
liver to injury. It typifies the alcoholic's liver upon admission to
the hospital.

The Merck Manual indicates "no specific treatment" (p. 830) and says
it likely indicates other problems, such as alcohol, drugs or
malnutrition (oh, my!)

Treatment certainly includes cessation of alcohol intake.
Therapeutic juice fasting gives the liver an opportunity to use all
those extra built-up fats.

10. Use safe sex, Tex
If you are not in a monogamous relationship, you are at increased
risk for hepatitis.

11. Wash your hands, Stan
Good grief, is that so hard to do? After a bowel movement, that
paper you use to clean up with is thinner than a politician's
election promise. Do you really think the tissue keeps you hands
squeaky clean? To put it another way, do you think it keeps someone
else's hands clean enough for you? No? Then wash your hands with
soap and hot water! I read once that over half of all physicians
don't wash their mitts after using the toilet. I hope this is not
true. My supposition is that it is, however. When heads of state,
billionaires, or doctors use the john, they are about as likely as
you to do what you do. Think about that in your spare time today.
And wash.

12. Prevent that stone, Joan
Now here's an obvious argument for vegetarian diet, as only animal
foods contain cholesterol, and cholesterol forms gallstones. Some
people manufacture excessive cholesterol, and this can be controlled
through intelligent use of therapeutic vegetable juice fasting and
large doses of vitamin C, both of which significantly reduce
cholesterol production.

13. Spare the bile, Kyle
About 33 ml of bile is stored in the average gallbladder. Many
animals (rats, for instance) do not even have one. In addition to
bile salts for emulsification, bile contains the pigment bilirubin,
neutral fat, phospholipid, assorted mineral salts... and high
concentrations of cholesterol. The gallbladder is more than a
storage receptacle. Bile is concentrated in the gallbladder. Also,
water is removed, and resulting concentrated cholesterol level may
be too much to remain in solution and cholesterol gallstones may
precipitate out. In addition to hurting, gallstones obstruct the
bile duct and thereby interfere with fat digestion. One indicator:
light-colored stools. Why? Bilirubin, the bile pigment, darkens them
to brown-green. Otherwise, stools would be manila to greyish-white
in color. Ugh.

14. Eat Organic lecithin, Tim
Phospholipids in bile help emulsify cholesterol. Lecithin therapy
is therefore almost certainly worth trying for threatened
gallstones. Three to five tablespoons daily is more likely to be
effective than a few capsules. Even a large 1,200 mg capsule
contains only about 1/8 tablespoon lecithin because of size limits
and added carrier oils. Lecithin is harmless and without side
effects when its made from organic Soy. Bulk granules run between $8
and $15 per pound. Lecithin is non-prescription, and available at
any health food store. (Note from Misty- try mixing bulk lecithin
granules into yogurt- it makes it almost custard-like!)

15. Be sure to read, Steed
References and Sources Cited:
Gerson, Max A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases, Totality Books,
Del Mar, CA Ray, O. and Ksir, C. Drugs, Society and Human Behavior,
Mosby, 1990, chapter 9 Vander, Sherman and Luciano Human Physiology
Werbach, M. (1988) Nutritional Influences on Illness. New Canaan,
CT: Keats Publishing. Williams, Sue R. (1993) Nutrition and Diet
Therapy, seventh edition. St. Louis: Mosby.

Reprinted from the book FIRE YOUR DOCTOR, copyright 2001 and prior
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Re: 15 ways to love your liver. (Archive in liver.)

Dr. Walt, is Ester C ok for this condition??

Re: Dr. Walt, is Ester C ok for this condition??