Nutritious liver detox smoothie with apples, spinach, banana, carrot, parsley, turmeric, lemon, walnuts, and hemp protein powder. This healthful, filling smoothie is packed with everything you need to help cleanse and revitalize your body.
I mentioned in my Anti-Inflammatory Carrot Ginger Smoothie post, I always like to start the New Year with a smoothie recipe or two to help clear out any over-abundance we may have entertained during the holidays.
And also, who doesn't love a great, nutritious smoothie?
You may have noticed, I like to give a theme to each of my smoothie recipes. For instance, the Immunity Boosting Tropical Smoothie, Good Digestion Smoothie , Anti-Inflammatory Smoothie, and Aphrodisiac Smoothie recipes I've posted in the past do just what their titles suggest.
And now? It's time to detox our livers.
Why Liver Function is Important:
I know, not exactly the sexiest topic in the world, but bare with me here, because this stuff's important.
We typically don't think about each of our organs when we're sitting down to a meal with family, are going out for a night on the town, or simply making day-to-day food choices. It's easy to overlook the parts of our body that aren't immediately obvious, but the liver serves some pretty important functions.
Storing vitamins, minerals and glycogen, removing toxins from your bloodstream, producing bile to digest fat and break down hormones, balancing protein, fat and sugar in the bloodstream, and eliminating old red blood cells are just a few of its many functions.
Signs Your Liver Needs Help:
Some tell tale signs that your liver isn't working as well as it should is if you experience bloating or gas, constipation, heartburn or acid reflux, anxiety or depression, have a difficult time losing weight, experience chronic fatigue, excessive sweating, and more.
So basically, if your liver's pissed, other systems in your body will react to let you know something's up.
When we think of liver damage, we typically think of excessive alcohol consumption, but it's entirely possible to have an improperly functioning liver without drinking.
Common causes of liver damage are eating processed foods (in particular, hydrogenated oils and refined sugar), alcohol consumption, having autoimmune disease, taking certain medications, not getting the proper nutrients from your food (malnutrition), and more.
In this sense you can see the importance of taking a load off your liver, throwing it a metaphorical bone to help it do its job more efficiently so that your overall health is in tip top shape.
How to Support Your Liver:
Step 1 in your liver detox journey is to remove processed foods from your diet, and add foods that support and detoxify your liver.
Foods like the ones you see in this smoothie recipe will help you get rid of toxins and will nourish your organs so that they aren't overly taxed.
Your goal is to lower systemic inflammation by removing pro-inflammatory foods from your diet, and instead incorporating anti-inflammatory foods.
The post Liver Detox Smoothie appeared first on The Roasted Root.
No comments:
Post a Comment