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    Your Vital Liver
    Your Vital Liver
    Your Vital Liver
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    Your Vital Liver

    By Dr. Holly Fourchalk

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    Dr. Holly Fourchalk practiced as a Registered Psychologist for 20 years. During that time she questioned the fact that the brain requires nutrients to create neurons, neurotransmitters, transport systems, and to fuel processes. If one’s brain doesn’t have sufficient nutrients, she surmised, then surely that would affect one’s capacity to think, feel and function. Always working with leading edge science, she continued her research of the mind and brain outside of the psychological parameters.
    When she went on to study Naturopathic Medicine, she found that there were various dysfunctions, disorders and depletions in the body known to cause psychological issues, including depression and anxiety. Transferring from Naturopathic Medicine to Dr. of Natural Medicine, she also finished her PhD in Nutrition and a Master’s Degree in Herbal Medicine. She went to India to study Ayurvedic Medicine and followed that with studies in German Homeopathy. She continues to expand her knowledge of ways to help people heal from today’s common ailments that allopathic medicine tends to simply manage.
    The liver performs over 500 functions that support every other organ and system in the body, so if the liver is not functioning well, just about anything can go wrong. This books explains how to keep your liver healthy.
    Dr. Holly’s mission is to empower people to reach their full potential in all aspects of health. Her in-depth understanding and training in so many different modalities of healing that address the inter-connections between the mind and body allow her to help people in ways that few others can achieve. She is a passionate health researcher and an engaging teacher.
    Everybody needs a Dr. Holly.
    Other books by Dr. Holly Fourchalk include:
    “Managing Your Weight” - Why your body may be working against you and what you can do about it. “Depression” - The real cause may be your body. “The Chocolate Controversy” - The bad, the mediocre and the awesome. And “Cancer” - Why what you don’t know about your treatment could harm you.

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    PublisherDr. Holly Fourchalk
    Release dateMay 27, 2013
    ISBN9781927626146
    Your Vital Liver
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    Dr. Holly Fourchalk

    Dr. Holly Fourchalk practiced as a registered therapist for 20 years. During that time she questioned the fact that the brain requires nutrients to create neurons, neurotransmitters, transport systems, to fuel processes and to eliminate toxins. If one’s brain doesn’t have the sufficient nutrients and capacity to detox, she surmised, then surely that would affect one’s capacity to think, feel and function. Always working with leading edge science, she continued her research of the mind and brain outside of the psychological parameters. When she went on to study Naturopathic Medicine, she found that there were various dysfunctions, disorders and depletions in the body known to cause psychological issues, including depression and anxiety. Transferring from Naturopathic Medicine to Doctor of Natural Medicine, she also finished her Ph.D in Nutrition and a Master’s Degree in Herbal Medicine. She went to India to study Ayurvedic Medicine and followed that with studies in German Homeopathy. She continues to expand her knowledge of ways to help people heal from today’s common ailments that allopathic medicine tends to simply manage. Dr. Holly’s mission is to empower people to reach their full potential in all aspects of health. Her in-depth understanding and training, in so many different modalities of healing, allows her to address the inter-connections between the mind and body allow her to help people in ways that few others can achieve. She is a passionate health researcher and an engaging teacher. Everybody needs a Dr. Holly.Also see Dr. Holly’s other books.

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    Your Vital Liver - Dr. Holly Fourchalk

    YOUR VITAL LIVER

    How to protect your liver from life’s toxins

    Holly Fourchalk, PhD., DNM®, RHT, HT

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    Editing, Interior Design and Cover Design: Wendy Dewar Hughes, Summer Bay Press

    ISBN: 978-1-927626-13-9

    Digital ISBN: 978-1-927626-14-6

    To my Parents

    For all their support and encouragement

    My Dad for his ever-listening ear

    My mother for her open mind

    This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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    YOUR VITAL LIVER

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    ONE

    TWO

    THREE

    FOUR

    FIVE

    SIX

    SEVEN

    EIGHT

    DISCLAIMER

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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    ONE

    Introduction

    Learn How to Take Care of Your Liver so it will Take Care of You

    Why would we possibly want to read about the liver? What could be so interesting about the liver that I would want to write a book about it?

    Do you know that no matter what disease, disorder or dysfunction we look at, whether depression, cancer or heart disease, we find that the liver is involved?

    Alternatively, if we have health, we can also look to the liver and thank it for taking such good care of us. So let’s see how we can take care of the liver so it will take care of us.

    The Greek work for liver is hepato, which is why a lot of medical issues that deal with the liver have the word hepato in them.

    Your liver is the body’s largest internal organ and also the largest gland. It also has the most functions to perform in your body.

    Yet it is probably the organ that is the most under-assessed by the Western medical profession. There are only five tests for the liver and yet it supports every other organ and system in the body.

    Usually people associate liver dysfunction with either alcoholics or hepatitis. However, it is suggested that most people have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease by the time they are thirty years old. Many of our diseases, disorders and dysfunctions start with the liver. Why?

    The liver has a number of different highly specialized tissues that regulate, metabolize, synthesize and store a huge number of nutrients, enzymes, molecules and more. These substances are required for all the organs and systems in the body. Thus…

    If you are looking at how well the brain functions – emotionally, intellectually, cognitively, psychologically, you need to consider the liver.

    If you are looking at how well your heart and blood vessels are working – blood pressure, pulse, inflammation, toxicity, cholesterol, you need to look at the liver.

    Whether you are assessing the health of the pancreas, thyroid, adrenals, or intestines or you are looking at the health of the body systems – the immune system, the urinary system, the endocrine (hormone) systems, you should take the liver into consideration.

    Why?

    Your liver is called a vital organ because you couldn’t live without it. This vital organ is responsible for over 500 functions that can be organized into five major categories:

    Storage: The liver has the capacity to store many minerals, fat-soluble vitamins, and blood.

    Detoxification: While every cell in the body has its own detoxification system, the major detox center in the body is the liver.

    Maintenance: The body has a vast number of systems that need to be kept within a certain range of functioning that the liver regulates.

    Metabolism: The liver metabolizes fats, proteins and carbohydrates into usable substances that the body requires.

    Production: The liver produces a wide range of necessary substances that the body requires from bile (which breaks down fats in the intestines) to transport mechanisms in the blood to immune cells to enzymes.

    We often think of the brain or the heart as being the most important organ in the body, which is true, but through reading this book, I hope you will begin to appreciate the incredible importance of your liver.

    We need to know how the liver supports all other functions and processes in the body and why it is so vitally important to take care of your liver if you want a long and healthy life.

    Let’s look at the structure, the functions, and the assessment of liver functions then determine how we can take care of the liver so that it will take care of us.

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    TWO

    The Structural and Functional Anatomy of the Liver

    When we look at any organ, we can understand it in a variety of ways.

    • What does it look like structurally or anatomically?

    • What are the different tissues that make up the organ?

    • What are the functions of these different tissues?

    • What nutrients do these different tissues require to function effectively?

    • What happens when the tissues or organ becomes toxic or inflamed?

    • What do we need to do to help the body restore its health?

    As mentioned in Chapter One, the liver is the largest organ and gland in the body. Let’s begin with a look at the structural anatomy of your liver.

    Your liver starts at the chest bone, called the sternum.

    The liver continues down almost to the waist on the right side of the body. It sits over the right side of the stomach. The gallbladder comes out from behind the liver and extends down towards the front of it. The liver is a reddish-brown color. It has a triangular shape to it and weighs around 3-3.5 pounds. On the whole, that probably doesn’t sound to exciting so let’s go further.

    A double-layered membrane called the visceral peritoneum covers the liver. This membrane protects the liver from rubbing against other organs. You know how horrible it is to get a rash on your skin because of an uncomfortable friction with clothing? Well, our bodies were designed to protect the liver from getting a similar kind of rash.

    From a superficial view of the liver, we could divide the organ into four lobes:

    1) A ligament called the falciform ligament essentially divides the liver into the left and right anatomical lobes.

    From behind, we see that there are two additional lobes between the left and right lobes: one above (superior) called the caudate and one below (inferior) called the quadrate.

    The liver has one major artery that flows nutrients into it called the hepatic artery.

    Remember, nothing can happen in the body if we don’t have nutrients. These nutrients supply any cell, organ or system with the ingredients it needs to accomplish the functions it is required to do.

    The liver also has a portal vein that carries all the nutrients from the gastrointestinal tract, or the gut, as well as the spleen and pancreas.

    This vein is vitally important. The food that we eat provides the nutrients we need. These nutrients get broken down in our gut, or the stomach and intestines, and then they are transported via the portal blood system to the liver.

    Then, if we have a healthy liver, the liver metabolizes them even further by breaking them down and building them into the nutrients that different parts of the body require.

    This leads us into the functional anatomy of the liver. The common area or central area of the liver is where the common bile duct (which later joins with other bile ducts), the portal vein and the hepatic artery are situated. From this place each of them separates off into different branches that create the functional left and right lobes of the liver and then into the upper (superior) and lower (inferior) lobes.

    There are two major categories of cells in the liver:

    • Karat parenchymal or hepatocytes are cells that do only liver functions.

    • Non-parenchymal are cells that do more general functions, as opposed to specific liver functions.

    The great part about learning all of this is that you are not going to be tested! I just thought you might like to know about it.

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    THREE

    What Does your Liver Do?

    Again, the five main categories of liver function are:

    • Storage

    • Production

    • Metabolism

    • Maintenance

    • Detoxification

    We will now go through of each more thoroughly, but remember, this is done with the layman in mind.

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