Easy Ways to Love Your Liver!
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Phat Beet Recipe
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Happy Spring!
 Spring time is liver time and a little liver love goes a long way! It is like making a big deposit in your health bank account.
In Chinese medicine, the liver is represented by the wood element, which is healthy and flexible when in balance. Similarly, when our livers are functioning well, we are healthy and flexible in both mind and spirit. Our livers are responsible for over 243 different functions in the body, and when it is clogged up and not working optimally, we can feel foggy, flabby, fatigued, get headaches and allergies, dry skin, nausea and bloating, insomnia, have high cholesterol and elevated liver function tests. Not fun.
So this is the ultimate season to lighten up and give our hard working livers some love.
So read on for: - Some simple tips to help your liver be all it can be
- Upcoming Spring Essential Cleanses- you can still join the next virtual Essential Cleanse!
- A Liver Loving Recipe
- Healthy Cook Books
- Radiation Revisited
Springing it on!
Dr Cory
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50 Ways to Love your Liver!
Our livers perform and co-ordinate so many critical functions in the body that it is actually referred to as the general in Chinese medicine.
They are responsible for making hormones, regulating cholesterol, influencing thyroid function,
supporting a healthy immune response, storing fat-soluble vitamins like Vitamin A and E, balancing blood sugar, making bile, and detoxifying every toxin that comes into our body so it can be packaged up and eliminated from the body.
If it gets bogged down, we get bogged down. Spring is the optimal time to support the liver, so hear are some simple ways to support your liver's functioning, decrease your toxic load and give it the nutrients it needs to do its job!
I was just going to do 10, but then I got on a roll....so here are the 50 ways...
- Eat Cruciferous Veggies like Broccoli, Cauliflower, Cabbage, and Brussel Sprouts
- Slip in extra fiber like Flaxseeds, chia seeds or rice bran
- Eat: Pumpkin Seeds
- Turnips
- Radishes
- Pomegranates
- Sesame seeds and tahini
- Make some Broccoli Sprouts and eat them!
- Drink:Green Tea
- Oolong tea
- Rooibos tea
- Use Burdock root in soups or julienned in salads
- Eat or drink Ginger
- Increase bitter greens- like dandelion greens, beet greens, arugula, that weird scratchy green stuff
- Drink Green Juices- with kale, cucumber, parsley, lemon
- Eat Beets and Beet greens (see recipe below!)
- Do a Castor Oil Pack
- Make sure you are eliminating daily
- Cook with Turmeric
- Increase onions and garlic- sulfur helps with detox
- Sweat daily to enhnace toxin elimination
- Chia seeds- 2 tbsp/day to help bind up the toxins in your gut.
- Eat organic whole foods
- Eliminate artificial colors, flavors, additives and preservatives
- Drink a protein shake daily with liver support nutrients
- Talk to a licensed naturopathic doctor about finding some natural alternatives for pharmaceutical medications you may be taking
- Use non-toxic cleaning products
- Do a comprehensive Essential Cleanse!
- Take a break from alcohol and recreational substances
- Take a combo herb formula with ingredients like: burdock, yellow dock, dandelion root, oregon grape root, licorice, chelidonium, boldo leaf, milk thistle
- Consider doing a liver-gallbladder flush
- Take a supplement with detox nutrient co-factors like glutamine, glutathione, MSM, magnesium, b-vitamins and n-acetyl cysteine
- Take a break from coffee. Substitute the teas above
- Cut out sugar- use only small amounts of raw honey, stevia, agave or coconut nectar
- Even more greens!
- Wheat grass daily
- Add sea veggies to bind up toxins and decrease the burden on you liver
- Take a green supplement with Blue green algae, spirulina and chlorella
- Avoid spicy foods which can agitate the liver fire
- Find healthy outlets for anger instead of storing it. Hit that proverbial pillow!
- Abdominal massage, like Chi Neit Sang
- See a chiropractor to make sure all there is no blockage of nerve signal from your spine to your liver
- Take extra magnesium. I like Calm. You can find it at the health food store.
- Did I mention doing an Essential Cleanse?
- Consider a hepatic detox profile (kits available through our office ) to make sure your liver is detoxifying optimally
- Avoid liver damaging non-steroidal anti-inflammatories like Tylenol and Ibuprofen. Talk to your local ND on the best options for you.
- Talk to a naturopathic doctor about helping you find alternatives to cholesterol lowering drugs which actually harm your liver in the long run
- Use natural body care products-- no toxic synthetic fragrances!
- Laugh hard and often!
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Practice gratitude for this amazing body of yours daily!
Have a friend or family member who could benefit from loving their liver?
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Join an Essential Cleanse Class!
Smash seasonal allergies! Banish belly bloat! And jumpstart your metabolism so you can feel light, bright, and outta sight!
An ounce of prevention goes a long long way when it comes to optimizing your health! 
Click here to learn more about how the Dr. Cory's Essential Cleanse can help you!
virtual essential cleanse class ** you can still join this class if you register by Wednesday April 20th! When: Intro Call Tuesday April 19th 6:00-7:00 pm PST Tuesdays April 26th-May 10th 6:00-7:00 pm Pre-cleanse is April 19th-26th. The cleanse officially starts after the call on the 27th. Calls are recorded for your convenience if you cannot make a call. Register now!
live! essential cleanse classWhen: Wednesdays, April 27th, and May 4th,11th Where: Revolution Chiropractic Lounge/Upper Cervical Center
433 Miller Avenue
Mill Valley, CA 94941
(415) 383-0904 Register now! Read some of the amazing experiences people have had as a result of the Essential Cleanse
Cleansing is always more fun with a buddy!
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Radiation Support Reminder
It is unclear as to whether or not the radiation from Japan is a health threat to us currently. The good news is that natural medicine provides us with the best options for protecting our bodies and keeping us as safe as possible from radiation and toxicity. So you are already ahead of the game if you are reading this!
In case you did not see this post in one of my previous emails, here are some great anti-radiation diet tips so you can be proactive.
And because I think it is important to be self reliant, I recommend having a supply on iodine on hand in case it is needed. Add it to your disaster kit. We still have some limited supplies in stock- of both iodine, and natural toxin binding formulas to enhance the elimination of radioactive substances from the body.
Click here to order your supply so you can be prepared to take care of yourself, and your family!
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Diana Stobo's Cookbooks Now Available!
Order your copy of Get Naked Fast! A collection of simple, mostly raw recipes that will help you strip the foods that weight you down! A great introduction to easy raw food and simple vegan recipes to increase your veggie food vocabulary! She also has an practical section on making healthy substitutions for your maybe not-so-healthy kitchen cabinet staples. 
Diana Stobo's second book Naked Bliss is full of dairy-free milkshakes to enjoy on these warming days! Yum! Great ideas to change up your smoothie recipes.
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Beets a la Grecque
I love turning former non-beet eaters in to beet lovers with simple dishes like these. Beets, and especially beet greens, are one of nature's superfoods- high in iron, Vitamin A, Vitamin C and folate. Additionally, they are great for the liver and gall bladder. We are in prime beet season right now, and they are delicious. Here is a super easy and traditional Greek way to prepare them and bring out their delicious sweet flavor. Enjoy! Beets a la Grecque 1 bunch of beets with greens juice of 1/2 lemon 1 pinches Himalayan or Celtic salt 2 tbsp organic olive oil Wash and separate the beets and greens. Cut the beet roots into chunks. Steam them for about 10-15 minutes, or until they start to become soft. Add the greens on top of the steaming beets and steam for about 4 minutes or until tender. Put the greens on a platter. Place the beet root on top of them. Squeeze the lemon over them, then sprinkle the salt. Finish by drizzling the olive oil on top. The red beet juice and the oil will mix to create really pretty swirls! Eat warm or put in fridge to marinate for later and served chilled.
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