Why is your liver not able to detoxifying is a major problem? Because naturally occurring toxins in the liver and colon build-up and can adversely impact your health and well-being. Imagine that you have 1 gal and 10 gal buckets outside and it begins to pouring rain. 1 gal bucket starts to overflow in no time but the10 gal bucket is almost full when the rain stopped. Everybody’s liver and colon are like that. We all have different capacities of how much we can tolerate. If you happen to have a 1 gal size bucket (more sensitive to chemicals, environmental disrupters) but keep getting toxins in, your liver is the first one to get overflow. You need to keep eye on what you are put into your mouth to start with. Some people are able to tolerate foods with chemical soup (10 gal buckets) but sooner or later, these individuals will get the signs and symptoms when they get aged because the bucket is full of toxic chemicals. What are you going to gain from taking toxins out from a body? You will gain the following noticeable symptoms by improving the functionality of each organ – liver, kidney, and colon. This is the great article “Top Tips to Detox Your Body” by Mercola.com

  1. Increase Energy
  2. Better Digestion
  3. Decrease “bad food” cravings
  4. Weight Loss and Muscle gain (lose fat and better body mass by gaining muscles)
  5. Increase the clearness of skin (clear rashes)
  6. Clear thinking (if you are having a difficult time focusing or suffering from brain fog)
  7. Improve metabolism
  8. Improvement in your hair quality – stop losing hair and your shiny hair will be back!
  9. Better good night sleep (no more restless sleep. You can sleep like a baby every single night again)
  10. Improvement in an overall mood – less anxious, less depressed. You are basically a happy person again!fullsizeoutput_61e

Detox #1: Smoothie and Juicing Recipes while you are detoxing either using botanical or supplements. Make sure to have a “liquid” breakfast during the cleanse. Liquid breakfast is less stressful for your digestive system to work on in the morning. Save energy in this way.  I recommend Tamie’s Shake. It is loaded with fibers, resistant starch, vitamins, minerals, and good fat from nuts & seeds, and MCT oil. I carry “Collagen” based protein powder. I avoid using whey, egg white, soy-based. Peas & rice-based powder is suitable for vegetarians.

This site is mostly targeted for kids (top 10 toxic kid’s cereal to avoid etc…) but also great information for like us, adults! Please take a look and learn more about toxic foods around us!!!

Detox #2: Eat Broccoli Sprouts or other sprouted beans with a bowl of salad every day if you can. I wrote a few blogs about Broccoli Sprouts in my blog. Please take a look at it. The number 1 key factor is that these sprouts contain the very detoxifying compound called “Sulforaphane”. I have read somewhere that the sulforaphane level of 1 small container of broccoli sprouts is equivalent to 64 heads of broccoli!!!

Broccoli and other dark leafy green vegetable family called Cruciferous vegetables help to detoxify the liver by moving the toxins OUT from the liver on Phase 2 Conjugation Pathway. Please take a look at the Liver Chart below.  I just want to give you one simple example. If the women in fertile age keep miscarriage in 5-8 weeks into the early pregnancy and this woman is taking the over the counter prenatal vitamins has synthetic folic acid in. What’s wrong in this picture? It happened in my clinic at least a few times per year. This woman possibly lows in vitamin D and she is very likely taking prenatal vitamins with “folic acid” in it. What’s wrong with taking “folic acid”? What if this woman has a gene (SNPs) called MTHFR (there are two SNPs on this) is activated means (+/+) or (+/-), very likely her liver is not able to convert from “Folic Acid” -> “Folate” in Folate Methylation Cycle. How simple would this solution be to avoid miscarriage again? Very likely your IVF doctors are not aware of it. Our genetics load the gun and our environment pulls the trigger.

For example, is in my case of gluten sensitivity. I have ++ genetic SNPs call “HLA DQ2” genes inherited from both mother and father. People with these SNPs are extremely sensitive to gluten but not likely bone with celiac disease.  I also have ++ in IgG which is the reaction to certain food that occurs slowly, not immediately like peanuts allergy. Knowing the fact I have these genes (loaded gun), I should be careful about not eating gluten-containing foods (triggers). One of the blood tests I run almost everybody wants me to read their blood chemistry is the marker called “Homocysteine”. The homocysteine marker goes HIGH when the methionine methylation pathway is not working well. This is the crucial point because the methionine pathway contains Folate, B12, and B6. Unfortunately, most PCPs never run this marker to prevent many signs and symptoms manifests in the near future. I will write more about this topic soon.

Detox #3: Sauna to get the sweat out of the toxins. I own both near and far-infrared sauna. Which is better? Most of the sauna I have tried takes 60 minutes to warm up the cabin room but this sauna (the relax sauna) takes only 2 min. to start to feel your body is warming up. You can set the timer to 10 to 30 minutes. I can jump in to get sweat for 20 minutes and take a quick shower and be done. I have had a ton of research done for owning the sauna but still made a few mistakes in the past by ordering the wrong sauna from a reputable company (I thought…). If you have any questions about the sauna, please feel free to email me. This is me in the infra-red pocket sauna which I use almost every day. Please visit my blog about the sauna.

The Relax Sauna (below) info – check the practitioner testimonial videos.

Dr. Mercola’s article about HIgh Heat may KILL the Coronavirus by elevating your core temperature your body also releases heat shock proteins that help block the replication of influenza viruses.

Another hypothesis regards why the toxins build up is D-lactic Acidosis caused by nutritional deficiency / taking the wrong supplements – probiotics specifically. Please check SIBO page for more articles.

Jay Davidson is the expert in Lyme Disease and he continuously talks about cleans up the DRAINAGE system first before you do any cleanse/detox. This is the great article:

Detox and Heavy Metal:

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About the chart (Liver):

The point is if Phase I has been blocked means not enough nutrients like B vitamins, for example, the toxins are not going to get assimilated on Phase II. Too much burden on the liver is not the good news. Visualize the drainage pipe got loaded with sludge. The liver is overwhelmed!!! Where the sludge goes? Where the all the toxins supposedly the liver is able to filter thru? Stuck and starts to overflow. Overflow is “circulating back to” the bloodstream. Is it gross? Yes, it is. When you feel chronic pain, migraine headache, constant GI problems especially constipation, very likely your blood is not freely moving because your liver is “overwhelmed” by the toxin coming in.

The same theory goes to Phase II. Phase I is OK but if there is not enough amino acid or glutathione in your bodily system, your liver has a problem filtering thru the toxins (Phase II). If your liver is working very fine on both Phase I and Phase II but not enough BILE, very likely you will have elimination problems. Talking about Glutathione, make sure you take high-quality glutathione (the liposomal version is better) take it with Glutathione Recycler (silymarin, pycnogenol, CoQ10, NAC, ALA, Selenium, Cordyceps, Gotu Kola, Milk Thistle) to help Glutathione works BETTER. Taking Glutathione Recycler is a very important co-factor to get Glutathione works well for the detoxification process.

Phase I Pathway => B-vitamins, Flavonoids (dark-colored fruits), and Phospholipids (example: Phosphatidyl Choline and Serine)

Phase II Pathway => Sulphation, Amino Acid, and NAC

The Great Article about Detox in detail: The Superman Diet (Detox)

Liver Detox Pathway-2

These are the major toxic chemicals that accumulate in your liver and colon. Please take a look at each one of them.

1 – Triclosan   Popular toothpaste, Date Line video clip, ABC news article; products contain triclosan &  household toxins.
2 – Parabens  Used as preservatives, is xenoestrogens (xenohormones). It is also widely used as preservatives in cosmetics, food additives, and prescription drugs. Read labels. Here’s an article about parabens in cosmetics and “Parabens and how to avoid them“
3 – 1, 4-Dioxane (polychlorinated biphenyls – PCBs) is commonly used in cosmetics and personal care products which listed ingredients as “Polysorbates, Polyethylene glycol, Polyethylene, Polyoxyethylene”
 4 – BHT (Butylated Hydroxy-Touraine) is often added to foods (cereals, nut mixes, chewing gum, butter spreads etc…) as a preservative. It is used in cosmetics and is also known as a stabilizer in pesticides, gasoline, lubricants, and soaps. Do you eat cereal? Please check the ingredients list. (and if you have a dog, read this!) Both BHT and BPA are banned in parts of the European Union, Japan, and the U.K.
5 –  BPA  (Bisphenol A) is endocrine disruptor and Phthalates. “BPA and unexplained infertility” BPA links to obesity and increase the risk of cancer. Here’s the article about “alternative to BPA in the works” & “potentially safer greener alternative to BPA“. This is the most recent BPA contained can food in 2015.
6 – Brominated Flame Retardants  The chemicals sprayed to prevent them from catching fire -furniture, mattresses, electronic equipment
7 – Azodicarbonamide  This chemical can be found in boxed pasta mixes, bread, frozen dinners, packaged baked goods, and flour used as an instant bleaching agent. This is the same chemical used in foam plastics and yoga mats. This chemical is banned in Singapore, Australia, and most European countries.
 8 – Perfluorinated Chemicals   Used to make materials stain and stick-resistant. The chemical leaches into our food from non-stick cookware, microwavable popcorn bags, fast food takeout containers, fabrics, furniture, household cleaners, etc…
9 – Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)  This is a scary chemical because you cannot see it. This is the gas from building materials, household cleaners, fragranced air fresheners, and scented candles. But certainly, you can avoid purchasing these items, right?
10 – Pesticides  5 billion pounds of pesticides are used every year in the US. They are deep into the soil, to the root of vegetables so that it is not something easily washed off. Not only that, those pesticides eventually pollutes waterways so that our drinking water gets contaminated and fish are not safe to eat any longer.  Have you heard of “Crop Dusting”? The process of spraying crops with powdered insecticides or fungicides from an airplane. Please visit here which produce you should buy ORGANIC.
11 – Carrageenan This is the chemical used in many dairy products (milk cottage cheese, ice-cream, yogurt, sour cream, nutritional shakes), even in infant formulas! Please check this site for more details. Many “organic” products contain this chemical. Be aware. (Silk, WhiteWave and Horizon Organic are a process of removing carrageenan from their product line).
12 – Heavy metals  Leads, aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, lithium, mercury enter our body through foods – drinking water, fish, fruits, vegetables are sprayed with herbicides or grown in contaminated soil (buy organic food!) and also from other sources like antiseptics, dental amalgams (mercury) and second-hand smoking. I use this hair analysis lab to