Recipes - A Lively Liver Tonic
10 March 2009
This recipe is a wonderful liver tonic. Whether you are facing the morning after the night before, or just want to give this often overworked organ a little boost, then this juice is for you.
- Half a large fresh beetroot
- 1 apple
- 1 large carrot
- 1 full pipette of Nature's Answer Livertone Complex
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The Therapeutic Benefits
Beetroot
This deeply pigmented vegetable is a nutritional and medicinal gift from mother nature. Beetroot contains a deep red pigment called betacyanin which is known to speed up detoxification pathways in the liver.
Apples
This ingredient is in the juice for two main reasons. Firstly, it adds a pleasant sweet flavour that complements the Earthiness of the beets wonderfully. More importantly however is the high malic acid content of apples. Malic Acid acts as a solvent in bile, which makes it slightly less viscous and aids its excretion from the liver and into the gall bladder. The release of bile is important in detoxification as many toxins that cannot be made water soluble by the liver will be excreted in the bile for removal from the body via the bowel.
Carrots
Carrots are very high in beta carotene and other carotenoids that give them their bright orange colour. These compounds are important liver protectors. When the liver is carrying out phase one detoxification. where it turns toxins into less harmful substances, free radicals will be created, which can damage liver cells. Beta carotene and carotenoids can offer significant antioxidant protection to support the liver.
Livertone Complex
This blend of herbs is designed to protect the liver from damage and to speed up detoxification.
Courtesy of Dale Pinnock BSc (Hons). and the 'Natural Solutions Group'. Dale is a western medical herbalist, trained at the University of Westminster. He also studied nutrition in depth for in excess of ten years and uses nutrition as part of his treatment plans.