How much do you love your Liver?
How can you love it, if you don’t know about your Liver?
If a Liver could talk, it would tell you like this.
“ Hi, I am your liver. Let me tell you know much I love you
in 9 ways
1. I store the IRON RESERVES you need, as well as a lot of
Vitamins and other Minerals.
Without ME, you wouldn’t have the strength to carry on.
2. I make BILE to help digest your food.
Without ME, you’d waste away to nothing.
3. I DETOXIFY POISONOUS CHEMICALS you give me,
and that includes alcohol, beer, wine and drugs (prescribed
and over-the-counter) as well as illegal substances.
Without ME, you “bad” habits would kill you.
4. I store ENERGY, like a battery, by stockpiling sugar
(carbohydrates, glucose and fat) until you need it.
Without ME, the sugar level in your blood could fall
dramatically and you’d go into a coma.
5. I make the BLOOD that you got your system going even
before you were born.
Without ME, you wouldn’t be here!
6. I manufacture NEW PROTEINS that your body needs to
stay healthy and grow.
Without ME, you wouldn’t grow properly.
7. I remove POISONS from the air, exhaust smoke and
chemicals you breathe.
Without ME, you’d be poisoned by pollutants.
8. I make CLOTTING FACTORS that stop the bleeding
when you accidentally prick yourself.
Without ME, you’d bleed to death!
9. I help DEFEND YOU AGAINST THE GERMS going
into your body all the time. I take those cold germs,
the bugs and other germs you encounter, and knock
them dead or at least weaken them.
Without ME, you’d be a sitting duck for every infection
known to man.
That’s How Much I Love You. But Do You Love Me?
Let Me tell you some easy ways to Love me, Your Liver!
Don’t drown me in beer, alcohol or wine!
Even one drink is too much for some people and
could scar me for life.
Watch those drugs!
All drugs are chemicals, and when you mix them
without a doctor’s advice, you cold create something
poisonous that could damage me badly.
I scar easily, and those scars, called “CIRRHOSIS”
are permanent.
Medicine is sometimes necessary. But taking pills when
they aren’t necessary is a bad habit. All those chemicals
can really hurt a liver.
Be careful with aerosol sprays.
Remember, I have to detoxify what you breathe in, too.
so when you are cleaning with aerosol cleaners, make sure
the room is ventilated, or wear a mask.
That goes double for bug sprays, mildew sprays, paint
sprays and all those other chemical sprays you use.
Be careful what you breathe.
Watch what gets on your skin!
Those insecticides you put on trees and shrubs not only
kill bugs they can get to me right through your skin
and destroy my cells, too. REMEMBER they are all
chemicals.
Cover your skin with gloves, long sleeves, a hat and mask
every time insecticides are in the air or if you are handling
them.
Don’t eat too much fatty food!
I make the cholesterol your body needs, and I try to make
the right amount. Give me a break. Eat a good, well
balanced nourishing diet. If you eat the right stuff for me,
I’ll really do my stuff for you.
Warning! I can’t and won’t tell you I am in trouble until
I am almost at the end of my robe and yours.
* Remember. I am a non-complainer. Overloading me
with drugs, alcohol and other junk can destroy me!
This may be the only warning you will ever get.
TAKE ME ADVICE, PLEASE.
Check me out with your doctor.
Blood screening tests can identify some trouble.
If I am soft and smooth, that’s good.
If I am hard and bumpy that could mean trouble.
If your doctor suspects trouble, ULTRA SOUND
and CT SCANS can look into it.
My life, and yours, depends on how you treat me.
NOW YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I CARE FOR YOU.
Please treat me with tender loving care.
Your Silent Partner and Ever-loving Lover, Liver
