Rather Be Healthy

A healthy liver receives and filters pints of blood per minute and produces 1 to 1.5 quarts of bile every day. This ensures that all the activities in the liver and in the rest of the body run smoothly and efficiently. Obstructive gallstones greatly undermine the liver’s ability to detoxify any externally supplied and internally generated harmful substances.

These stones also prevent the liver from delivering the proper amounts of nutrients and energy to the right places in the body to the right places in the body at the right time. This upsets the delicate balance in the body, known as homeostasis, thus leading to disruption of its systems and undue stress on it’s organs.

A clear example of such ia disturbed balance is an increased concentration of the endocrine hormones estrogen and aldosterone in the blood. These hormones, produced in both men and women are responsible for the correct amount of salt and water retention. When stones congest the gallbladder and the liver’s bile ducts, these hormones may not be sufficiently broken down and detoxified. Hence, their concentration in the blood rises to abnormal levels, causing tissue swelling and water retention. Most oncologists consider elevated estrogen levels to be the leading cause of breast cancer among women, I men, high levels of this hormone. In men, high levels of these hormones can lead to both excessive development of breast tissue and weight gain.

Over 60% of the American population is overweight of obese. Men, women and children in the condition suffer mainly from fluid retention (with relatively minor fat accumulation). The retained fluids help tap and neutralize noxious substances that the liver can no longer remove from the body. This helps the overweight or obese person to survive a major, possibly fatal, toxicity crisis such as a heart attack, septic poisoning, or massive infection. The side effects of fluid retention in the tissues, however, is that it causes these toxins and other harmful waste matter(metabolic waste and dead cell material) to accumulate in various parts of the body and further congest the pathways of circulation and elimination.

Wherever in the body the storage capacity for toxins and waste is exceeded, symptoms of illness begin to occur.

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