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7 Foods That Replenish Your Liver

Liver Cells Attacked by Toxins
 

The liver plays an extremely complex and significant role in regulating digestion, maintaining your metabolism and filtering harmful chemicals out of your body. However, if the liver is damaged, it is unable to efficiently convert nutrients in the foods we love, the same way a healthy liver would.

Like many other major organs, following a well-balanced diet is critically important for liver health. While there’s no magical food to protect your liver from damage and disease, including the following foods in your diet will help your liver work at its best.

1. Berries

It’s no secret that berries such as blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries (among others) are among nature’s superfoods. Containing antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals, a daily diet rich in super fruit, has been shown to reduce the level of enzymes released from liver cells when they are damaged by an astounding 23 percent, per a study in a 2010 edition of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

2. Crucifers

Containing vital phytonutrients like flavonoids, carotenoids, sulforaphane, and indoles — which help your liver neutralize chemicals, pesticides, drugs, and carcinogens – veggies, including broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, cress, bok choy, and daikon, may prevent the formation of carcinogens in your stomach in response to foods made with hydrogenated oils and sodium nitrite.

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3. Dark leafy greens

Foods like kale, Brussels sprouts, dandelion, and cabbage are powerful in that they contain high levels of sulfur. This is key for liver support during the detoxification process – the removal of free radicals, heavy metals, pesticides and

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