What happens during impaired liver detoxification?
An unhealthy liver does not detoxify substances as rapidly or as completely as a healthy liver. Slower detoxification results in more toxic substances circulating in the body. Unchanged or partially changed toxins are not easily eliminated and instead pass from the liver into the body. Eventually, the toxins are stored in fatty body tissue, including the brain and central nervous system cells. Stored toxins may be slowly released into the blood, contributing to many chronic illnesses. How is liver function damaged? A number of conditions affect how well the liver performs its detoxifying duties. Repeated exposure to chemicals and toxins in food, water and the environment increases the detoxification burden. If you have a “leaky gut,” your intestine allows large, undigested molecules to pass into the body. Increased amounts of toxic substances can travel throught the liver and overload its capacity to detoxity them. How is liver function measured? 1. One method to assess the liver’s det
