Your Liver: The Engine of Your Health

Your liver is sometimes referred to the engine room of your body keeping your body functioning while combating invaders so it should not be a surprise it is your largest organ.

Everyday, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, your liver is performing vital functions that keep you alive such as cleansing your blood, neutralizing poisons and toxins, emulsifying fat, producing, storing and delivering energy, metabolizing alcohol, drugs and chemicals.

Lets just focus on now on one particularly necessary function, cleansing the blood as it provides an insight in the size of the liver and the scope of what it does. At any given moment in time 10 to 15% of your blood supply is in your liver being cleansed. That is why your liver must be large and this is only one of its 500 functions.

Your body has an internal filter and it is your liver. Everything that…

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Goji Berries Are Incredible but Shop Carefully

The issue of what is wild-crafted Tibetan Goji Berry (Lycum Eleagnus Barbarum) seems to plague marketers of this delicious fruit. There are blatant misrepresentations of its origins by sales efforts wanting to cash in on the fruits pristine regional origins while distancing themselves from the polluted background of the Chinese variety called Wolfberry (Chinese Lycee or Lycium Barbarum), which most provider’s source as Goji.

The wild-craft Tibetan variety has been harvested for thousands of years as a medicinal food by Tibetan doctors and eaten freely as a wild fruit. Many generations ago Goji seeds were taken to China , cultivated, and called Wolfberry. The Chinese Wolfberry is suspect if it does not possess organic certification because of the lack of regulation regarding pesticides, herbicides, and DDT over the years in Chinese farming practices. It is a botanical given that soils with a history of repeat planting often suffer from…

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