Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Ketone Bodies Protect the Brain

Fascinating interview on the value of living in high altitudes. Denver and Reno are two cities with high altitude. What are the benefits? Weight loss. Better recovery from injury.

Show notes:

Sustained exposure to hypobaric hypoxia results in cachexia. Muscle breakdown releases amino acids, whilst hepatic ketogenesis converts fatty acids and some amino acids into ketone bodies. These act as metabolic substrates, but also as metabolic modulators eliciting protective effects against hypoxic injury. In this video, Andrew J. Murray and Hugh E. Montgomery explain their hypothesis and propose that hypoxia-induced cachexia is protective.

" . . . 95% of all tooth extractions result in a pathologic [bone] cavitation."

So, one, don't have your wisdom teeth extracted.  And two, don't get braces: orthodontists extract perfectly good teeth!!  Don't let them.  You need them for overall health. 

from Dr. Paul Genung's Holistic Dentistry in Seattle.

A cavitation is an unhealed hole in the jawbone caused by an extracted tooth. Since wisdom teeth are the most commonly extracted teeth, cavitations are most frequently found in the wisdom tooth sites. Please see the graphic and photo at the right to get a glimpse of what may be in your mouth and the effects it is having. The photo and diagram demonstrate the destructive and pathologic consequence of a routine tooth extraction. Dentists are taught in dental school that once they pull a tooth, the patient’s body heals the resulting hole in the jawbone. However, approximately 95% of all tooth extractions result in a pathologic defect called a cavitation. The tooth is attached to the jawbone by a periodontal ligament which is comprised of “jillions” of microscopic fibers. One end of each fiber is attached to the jawbone and the other end of the fiber is attached to the tooth root. When a tooth is extracted, the fibers break midway between the root and the bone. This leaves the socket (the area where the root was anchored in the bone) coated with periodontal ligament fibers. There are specialized cells in the bone called osteoblasts. Osteoblasts make new bone. The word “osteoblast” means bone former. They are active during growth, repair and maintenance. However, the periodontal ligament prevents the osteoblasts from filling in the tooth socket with bone since the periodontal ligament fibers lining the socket act as a barrier beyond which the osteoblasts cannot form bone. In other words, an osteoblast “sees” a tooth when it “sees” periodontal ligament fibers. Since there are billions of bacteria in the mouth, they easily get into the open tooth socket. Since the bone is unable to fill in the defect of the socket, the newly formed “cavitation” is now infected. Since there is no blood supply to the “cavitation” it is called “ischemic” or “avascular” (without a blood supply). This results in necrosis (tissue death). Hence we call a cavitation an unhealed, chronically infected, avascular, necrotic hole in the bone. The defect acts to an acupuncture meridian the same way a dead tooth (or root canal tooth) acts. It causes an interference field on the meridian which can impair the function and health of other tissues, organs and structures on the meridian. Significantly, the bacteria in the cavitation also produce the same deadly toxins that are produced by the bacteria in root canals (see Root Canals). These toxins are thio-ethers (most toxic organic substance known to man), thio-ethanols, and mercaptans. They have been found in the tumors in women with breast cancer.

VITAMIN C: YOUR INVISIBLE TOOTHBRUSH
Dr. Emmanuel Cheraskin presents evidence that serum vitamin C levels are just as important as brushing for the prevention of tooth decay.
NATURAL VERSUS SYNTHETIC VITAMIN C

This is remarkable:
It is common these days to use the terms vitamin C interchangeably with ascorbic acid. In fact, there are numerous differences between these two very distinct biological entities. Vitamin C, found in numerous plant and animal foods, is a necessary nutrient for humans in that we make none of our own vitamin C. Natural vitamin C is a complex mixture of at least 9 or 10 distinct molecular entities. These include ascorbic acid (the preservative part of the complex), tyrosinase (an enzyme), rutin, bioflavenoids, copper, manganese, and other enzymes and minerals. Each of these compounds has a synergistic effect with the other substances, the end result being a potent and complicated compound that has far-reaching biological effects. Some of these effects include reducing capillary fragility (thus reducing the tendency to bruising or bleeding), improving the integrity of the collagen fibers, binding and thereby neutralizing histamine (lessening allergies), and many other vital functions. Ascorbic acid has only one effect, that is anti-oxidation. While many nutritionists and physicians sing the praises of anti-oxidants in our diet, the fact is that excessive anti-oxidation inhibits our cellular mechanisms from digesting and disposing of unwanted tissue. This is perhaps why the latest studies on excessive use of ascorbic acid show that it may contribute to the development of coronary artery disease. This situation would never arise from the use of the whole vitamin C complex as found in natural foods.  
 You might find this list fascinating.

Monday, January 18, 2016

"LEPTIN EVEN FREES UP TESTOTERONE, IMPROVING MUSCLE TO FAT RATIO"

"Leptin even frees up testosterone, improving muscle to fat ratio . . ."

By Kat James via Lew Rockwell titled there as "Harnessing the Power of Leptin to Transform Your Body, Your Brain, and Your Life."

Ready or not, the science is in: The largest dietary studies in history, such as Stanford’s A to Z study and the Swedish Council on Health and Technology Assessment review of 16,000 dietary studies, have clearly shown that low-carb diets reign supreme for both weight loss and health. Sweden has declared “LCHF” (Low Carb High Fat) as their official diet. Norway followed. The USDA won’t “go there” yet, but they did strike cholesterol from their list of things to avoid for the first time since 1980. Ivy league cardiologists are admitting being wrong for forty years. Time put a pat of butter on the cover last year and reported that fat-phobia (in both culture and the medical world) was based on… um… flawed science.

What next, you say? Are they going to tell us lard is healthy? Well… yeah. Lard recently won out over other common “healthy” oils for promoting the most longevity in calorie-restricted rodents. Low carb was the diet that allowed cancer-fighting herbs like turmeric to actually work (they could not in the presence of sugar). Very low carb diets are being used as cancer treatment. Will this “craziness” stop? I hope not. I’ve been waiting for this truth to come out for twenty-five years.

Maybe you’re hip and have already adopted some incarnation of a low-carb, low-glycemic, grain-less, or even Paleo (the little black dress of semi-low carb diets) eating style. If so, you’ve probably reaped many rewards. But what if you could feel even better? Even freer of cravings, stubborn “soft spots”, sleep, joint, or mood problems or things you’ve chalked up to just getting older. And if you still have “issues” with food, you really need to know this: You’re about to learn about the granddaddy of “weird tricks” that every human has in their genetic toolbox, yet few of us utilize, even in our advanced pursuits of health. It’s a mechanism you can turn on or off for the rest of your longer, more vibrant life. Here’s how 

I know…

FUMBLING TOWARD BIOCHEMICAL ECSTASY
Way back in 1990 I woke up from my own fat-phobic trance as a twelve-year eating disorder digressed into autoimmune thyroid and skin syndromes, then near liver failure. With no internet I researched the notorious immunosuppressant drug I was supposed to take, finding that there was not much hope for healing my liver unless I looked at alternatives. I was skeptical about herbs but wound up surprising both my doctor and myself by bringing my sky-high liver enzymes back to normal over a few months by taking them.  But my bingeing, even on organic “health foods”  continued hopelessly, in spite of “white knuckling” my way through each day, determined not to succumb… Then several months later, on two occasions, while traveling, I experienced strange, fleeting periods of respite from the usual cravings, energy slumps, and moodiness. These two, distinctive “incidents” were so bizarre to me that I became obsessed with replicating that unforgettable feeling for more than a year, writing down any food combination, omission, or addition that preceded the phenomenon, but unable to sustain it continually. The one food that always preceded that elusive, deeply-sated, calm state, was the last food I would have imagined would soon become my go-to “sanity” food: Fat. I had not been eating much fat but had noticed that feeling throughout midday when I ate fat instead of grains at breakfast. I added fat to my quinoa or sprouted bread at lunch with my salad and with my stir-fry at night.  I’d been vegetarian for seven years. I was amazed at how each time I decreased grains and upped the fat I felt better and sustained that “freedom feeling” longer and longer. I did not imagine ever cutting them out altogether, though. And more unimaginable than that would be cutting out dozens of other health foods I would learn could yank me out of this new way of feeling.

My weight loss and skin changes had become significant just from these changes, but nothing prepared me for what would happen when I finally got up the nerve to cut out not only all my grains, even at lunch and dinner, but also anything else that I’d been eating prior to any energy lulls. About two days into this drastic experiment, several truly shocking things happened: 1) My appetite suddenly dropped by about half. I found myself staring at the remainder of my mouthwatering lunch and could not eat another bite. It was surreal. 2) My energy suddenly became so steady that I forgot about the time of day or when the next meal was. 10am felt the same as 3pm and 9pm. 3) A sudden loss of facial and body-wide swelling—previously unmoved by years of intense exercise—visibly reduced overnight. My rings spun in the morning. Clothes were immediately loose, and finally: 4) My body suddenly demanded much more fat. This was not premeditated or learned, but an unexpected, “primal” physical demand that stunned me. My body no longer “saw” most of what was in my refrigerator as food.  I was bewildered by this new urge. No meal was complete without ample fat anymore. A week or so later, I was compelled to eat meat again. Not long after that, I remember washing off my makeup and seeing a different person looking back at me in the mirror.

And so began my “incredible shrinking woman” phase, which continued, uninterrupted, for two more years until I’d lost 10 dress sizes. I became literally unrecognizable, even to a high school friend at a reunion, who wouldn’t believe it was me standing two feet in front of him, even after a conversation. In addition, virtually every chronic head-to-toe condition I’d accepted as my fate fell away during this phase, including the painful canker sores, bladder infections, bloating, black moods, sniffling, flaking, red-eye and chin rashes and dry skin, dizziness upon standing, and blurry vision. Last but not least, the bingeing demon that had controlled me for more than a decade vanished, never to return, not even for a day in the twenty-five years since. Family and colleagues assumed it was willpower. It wasn’t. It was a profound, permanent, mind-blowing biochemical peace.

MEDIA INTOLERANCE for TRUTH
During this metamorphosis, I was working as a celebrity makeup artist with top magazines. The photo crews became extremely inquisitive about my weight loss, interrogating me for my peculiar food selections.  Cosmetic company spokesperson contracts and offers came in for me to “talk beauty” on camera (the superficial kind, of course) and flash my “before and afters” for spectacle. I was to be interviewed on the top morning show by one of America’s favorite anchors….as long as I didn’t get specific about diet. I was specifically warned not to talk about supplements. A major magazine ran a vanillafied version of my story with my photos and some Stuart Smalley-type stuff, but they “didn’t need” any dietary details, which they found mildly disturbing. An “extreme makeover” reality show wanted me to play the “lead motivator” role. The show would be about calorie counting (and low fat), shaming weigh-ins and plastic surgery. I passed, knowing that no reality show was interested in something that would make all the suffering, shame, and drama obsolete.

DISCOVERY of the HORMONE I'D ALREADY HARNESSED
At a function in 1994, I met scientist Jeffrey Friedman, who’d just discovered a hormone called leptin [Greek word for "thin"]. When I heard about its effects in rodent studies, which had the pharmaceutical world salivating for a blockbuster weight loss drug, I did not make the connection between leptin and the countless way in which it had transformed me. Those vast capabilities of leptin—beyond its weight and satiety-regulating affects—were yet to be discovered.

As years passed I kept waking up to the same secret dream of physical freedom and healing, I read many health books no dietary information resonated. And with the new explosion of fat-free fanaticism, I felt an increasing sense of urgency to share my experience, as I knew that widespread biochemical (and thus, psychological) enslavement would come of it (beyond “diabesity,” fat phobia spawned the psyche drug epidemic too). I watched my savior, fat, become demonized more than ever, and watched healthy people coerced to eat rice cakes and Snackwells, bringing on the same food obsession and weight struggle in the average person that I’d so narrowly escaped when it was still rare.

MY REAL LIFE LAB
Publishers were interested in a conventional “beauty book” from me. But I finally found one who would let me write The Truth About Beauty. Seven years of research included conducting “transformation cruises” for men and women where I quickly confirmed that what I’d done for myself could work for others. After years of calibrating and eliminating surprising foods that hindered success or threw off peoples’ glucometer readings—such as juices (even vegetable), coffee and even most coffee substitutes, nut flours and milks, most protein powders and even alcohol in flavorings and tinctures—I could predictably help others achieve the same set of sudden changes I’d had, consistently on the third or fourth day. I’d come to call that set of sudden changes, the “flip.”

SCIENTIFIC VINDICATION: THE MASTER HORMONE WHOSE TIME HAS COME
I was describing this phenomenon to a group at a book signing in 2004 when the foremost expert on the hormone, leptin, Dr. Ron Rosedale—whose book signing coincidentally followed mine—heard me talking about shocking appetite and weight drop-offs, bizarre calmness… the end of portion control, “as long as carbs were radically cut, and you eat a lot of fat.” At that, his jaw dropped. I figured a heated debate would follow, but instead, he said: “You’re resensitizing people to the hormone leptin. You’re one of the only ones.” He’d been doing it, too at his clinics all those years.

From that day, knowing about this “master hormone” secreted by every human’s white fat cells, gave me a new perspective on each area of health recovery I continued to witness, whether it was thyroid, mental clarity, weight, ADHD, fertility, energy, digestive, mood, skin, allergies, or other issues, the emerging science on leptin (as a quick Pubmed search on it will show you) explains it all. More than 8000 studies show leptin’s functions to date, confirming its hormone-regulating, tissue-healing, and anti-inflammatory effects.

Not surprising to me was it’s impact on eating disorders and all addictions, via its balancing effects on dopamine pathways and ability to grow the cerebral cortex (our self-control center). Or its ability to balance the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems, explaining why most people who resensitize to it describe a sudden clear-headedness and calmness. And its immune-modulating effects explained why my autoimmune thyroid and skin problems cleared up and why so many quickly lose their food sensitivities—even to dairy. Leptin even frees up testosterone, improving muscle to fat ratio independent of exercise as well as libido, in both men and women. For me, the mystery was over. And you wonder why no one hears of this hormone whose recovered function—achieved only by dietary avoidance of blood sugar and insulin spikes and plenty of fat— could make every blockbuster drug obsolete.


Kat James [send her mail] is an award-winning author, health journalist, and syndicated radio host and has been called a master of self-transformation by SELF magazine. Her controversial and pioneering dietary method now recommended at top neurologic, fertility, functional medicine, bariatric, and metabolic clinics has left countless dramatic success stories in its wake and been featured at top spas and institutions as well as on Today, Fox, and, PBS among others. To learn more about her original Total Transformation® Programs, a radio show on XM/SIRIUS, or her Silver Nautilus award-winning bestseller, The Truth About Beauty, visit her website since 1998, www.InformedBeauty.com.

Sunday, January 17, 2016

Magical Chocolate Milk Erases Concussion Effects




This is America in a nutshell. Instead of banning kids from playing football, as the world's leading expert on the football-related head injuries urges, a school district is having their football players drink a brand of chocolate milk that has been shown in a preliminary study to "improve their cognitive and motor function over the course of a season, even after experiencing concussions."

Experimental groups drank Fifth Quarter Fresh after each practice and game, sometimes six days a week, while control groups did not consume the chocolate milk. Analysis was performed on two separate groups: athletes who experienced concussions during the season and those who did not. Both non-concussed and concussed groups showed positive effects from the chocolate milk.

Non-concussed athletes who drank Maryland-produced Fifth Quarter Fresh showed better cognitive and motor scores over nine test measures after the season as compared to the control group.

Concussed athletes drinking the milk improved cognitive and motor scores in four measures after the season as compared to those who did not.

Vice Sports has a quick look at what's wrong with this study.

See also these new helmets designed to "prevent" concussions. The problem is not poorly designed helmets or lack of magic chocolate milk. Those things only make matters worse by implicitly condoning poor behavior, e.g. if helmets prevent concussions, it'll gradually result in harder hitting, which will result in more injuries.

Friday, January 15, 2016

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO REGENERATE THE LIVER?

Regenerating the Liver: What Does That Mean?

In spite of how confusing and all over the map information found on the internet is, you can always find some shining lights.  This video by Nutritionist and Registered Pharmacist, Barbara Mendez [here is her YouTube channel], is one such example.  She does a very nice presentation of 7 foods that help regenerate your liver.  And by regenerate, she doesn't mean that you regrow an entire organ inside your body the way women ingest a baby over 9 months.  What she means is revive a liver that is besieged by a host of toxins.  She starts first by explaining what the liver is responsible for.  The liver is responsible for 1) your metabolism, 2) maintaining healthy levels of cholesterol, 3) hormone balance; 4) it's the main detoxification organ, and 5) and help synthesize proteins; 6) depression and anxiety are indicted by the liver.  

Then she talks about what kinds of foods compromise the liver.  And she starts with the obvious one.  What compromises the liver?  Alcohol. Prescription medication.  Acetaminophen, found in over-the-counter drugs, like Tylenol.  Viruses.  Pollution.  Pesticides.  Herbicides.  "Do not fear," she says "The liver regenerates itself."  

Give a listen:



Her list of 7 foods that regenerate the liver is here:
1)  Lemon upon rising in the morning. 
2)  Garlic, 3-4 cloves, raw or sauteed.
3)  Bitter greens.  Okay, this is smart and a lot more specific than Edward Group's list below.  These help to stimulate the release of bile, so have a side of arugula or dandelion greens.  Just so you know, bile is the main detoxification product of the liver.  It's what gives your feces its brown color.  If your feces is pale, yellow, or white, then that means that your liver is not producing enough bile.  Tom Cowan explains that "bile turns the stool brown and bile is the main detoxification 'product' of the liver."
4)  Artichokes are part of the milk thistle family.  
5)  Avocados stimulates production of glutathione. 
6)  Beets have lots of vitamins and minerals, essential for liver health.  Thin bile and detoxify your liver.  Mix them with walnuts and olive oil.
7)  Cabbage.  Anything in the cruciferous family would be great. Sulforaphane helps produce glutathione.  Red cabbage is better than the white cabbage.  

Though I like her list and am reluctant to post anymore information beyond what she includes in her message, I also feel duty bound to include at least one conflicting opinion to hers.  Maybe not conflicting, maybe comparative and certainly alternative.  You could stop reading here, for what she offers is the best I've heard so far.  Before her video, I did find Dr. Edward F. Group's video on the same subject.  His video has over 2 million views (I don't know how he does it).  Barbara's video has only 50,520 views as of January 15, 2016.  Before Edward Group's video, I found Tom Cowan's article at Weston A. Price Foundation.  His recommendation does not stray too far from Mendez's or Group's. 

Tom Cowan at the Weston A. Price Foundation explains:  
The treatment of the liver always starts with the diet. As well as doing the obvious things like removing as much toxicity as possible by eating only organic or biodynamic foods, the emphasis in the diet should be on greens, the bitter and sour tastes, and the healthy consumption of saturated fats. Protein intake should be low to moderate but healthy raised animal fats should be consumed as tolerated. I tell patients to start every morning with a glass of water with a half of lemon squeezed into the water and then eat some animal fat (especially grass-fed butter or ghee) and greens (such as dandelion greens or the more bitter greens) at every meal. The green color is the most pure reflection of plant life and this stimulates the detoxification processes in the liver. The fats are used by the liver to help make the enzymes that do this detoxification work. The mixture of cod liver oil and butter oil helps to make sure a supply of healthy fats and fatsoluble vitamins is available to nourish your liver.
The difference, and perhaps it was taken for granted by the other two, was to, one, make sure protein consumption is low.  Start with that--if you need an immediate or urgent liver detox.  Next, he recommends consuming lemons.  Aha!  There it is--the ubiquitous lemon.  Better get some today.  This should be a daily regimin.  If it's too strong cut it with grassfed, pasteured butter or olive oil as suggested by the Corrihers. Whereas Dr. Group recommends "olive oil, flax seed oil, and hemp oil," Cowan recommends animal fat instead of plant fat.  Cowan also recommends green [leafy] vegetables, the bitter the better.  So here he is in alignment with Mendez.  He explains that "The green color is the most pure reflection of plant life and this stimulates the detoxification processes in the liver. The fats are used by the liver to help make the enzymes that do this detoxification work. The mixture of cod liver oil and butter oil helps to make sure a supply of healthy fats and fat soluble vitamins is available to nourish your liver."

Interesting.  So not too divergent from the other two.  Simply a little bit of this, a little bit of that to round out the picture on how to regenerate the liver.  


WHAT ABOUT MEDICINALS FOR THE LIVER?
We've all heard of sillymarin.  But have you ever heard of Schizandra? Neither had I until today.  Cowan continues:
For medicines, the liver is nourished mostly by plants with a bitter taste, and by therapeutic oils. The best studied plants for liver nourishment include milk thistle and schisandra. These two herbs come together in the Mediherb product called Livco, which has been shown to promote healthy liver function. In fact, milk thistle extract (called silymarin) is used as an intravenous medicine in European hospitals to treat acute poisonings, as with Tylenol overdose. The dose of Livco is one tablet three times per day.
The therapeutic oil to use is the castor oil packs described by Edgar Cayce in many of his readings. Given under a heating pad applied to the liver for two hours, from one to seven times per week, the castor oil stimulates both phases of liver detoxification and is a tried and true medicine for helping all parts of liver function.
There are many other medicines, and bitters and other products that help liver and bile function properly, including coffee enemas which are a proven medicine used by cancer patients all over the world for stimulating liver detoxification.
These suggestions will point you to the way to regain a healthy liver and the vitality that this confers.
On Schizandra, Life Extension writer,Kirk Stokel, makes this point:
Purified extract from a non-GMO Cucumis melo melon has been found to be rich in superoxide dismutase(SOD), the first enzyme in your body's mitochondrial oxidant protection system.19,20 Melon-derived SOD quickly converts primary free oxygen radicals into hydrogen peroxide.
That hydrogen peroxide must be rapidly converted into water to complete the mitochondrial oxidant detoxification process. That task is handled by a second liver-protective agent, an extract of the Chinese vine Schisandra chinensis.
Schisandra extract complements the melon extract by stimulating the liver mitochondrial antioxidant enzyme, glutathione peroxidase, that converts hydrogen peroxide to water.
In the presence ofboth adequate SOD and enhanced glutathione peroxidase activity, mitochondria can readily convert deadly reactive oxygen species first to hydrogen peroxide and then to harmless water.
Now let's examine the data on just how well each component works to protect your body from the punishing effects of NAFLD.
I don't know about Schizandra, so I can't really comment on it.  So far I really like Mendez's recommendations.

Here is Dr. Edward F. Group's recommendation [Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, NP, DACBN, DCBCN, DABFM.], and I think that you will find that they are quite similar to Mendez's with a few excdeptions.

1)  Garlic.  Barbara Mendez says to take 3-4 cloves a day.  Wow!
2)  Grapefruit and grapefruit juice helps flush out carcinogens and other toxins.  Hmm. 
3)  Beets and carrots help stimulate overall liver function.
4)  Green tea, liver-loving beverage full of plants known to assist the liver's overall function.
5)  Leafy green vegetables are one of the most powerful allies in liver detoxification.  Raw, cooked, or juiced, these green vegetables are high in plant chlorophylls suck up environmental toxins from the blood stream.
6)  Avocados, a nutrient superfood helps the body produce glutathione which is necessary for the liver to cleanse harmful toxins. 
7)  Apples, high in pectin and quercetin and helps release toxins from the digestive tract which makes it easier for your liver to handle the toxic load during the cleansing process.  
8)  Olive oil, flax seed oil, and hemp oil are all great for the liver.  When used in moderation, they help the body produce a lipid base that can suck up harmful toxins, thereby taking some of the burden off of the liver.  Good to know.  
9)  Whole Grains.  Brown rice, which is rich in B Vitamins improve the overall fat metabolization and liver function and relieve liver congestion.  
10)  Cruciferous vegetables as opposed to green leafy vegetables add necessary liver enzymes to the liver and support it.  These enzymes will help flush out carcinogens and other toxins from the body.
11)  Lemons and limes.  The Vitamin C and citrus content help synthesize toxic material into substances that can be absorbed by water.  Oh, I see, so you want both fat soluble and water soluble substances that break down toxins, creating a cleaner or clearer path for other nutrients to be absorbed.  Drinking fresh-squeezed lemon in the morning will help stimulate your liver.  
12)  Walnuts, high in the amino acid, arginine, help to detox ammonia from the liver.  Oh, this is good!  Walnuts also supports glutathione in the liver.  
13)  Cabbage, much like broccoli and cauliflower, activates two crucial detoxifying enzymes that also help the liver flush out toxins.  
14)  Turmeric, the liver's favorite spice, assists the enzymes that actively flush out known dietary toxins.  
Artichokes, Asparagus, Kale, Brussel Sprouts are other vegetables that serve your liver.  Eat these foods and they will help your liver function properly.  

Still, he recommends a liver cleanse two to three times a year will help to expunge harmful toxins trapped inside your liver.  At the end, he states that to find liver/gall bladder detox programs, go to his site, globalhealingcenter.com.