Mike
Carruthers:
When was the last time someone talked to you about
your liver? Probably never, until now.
Michael
Roizen :
It is where everything goes. When you eat an ice cream
cone it gets digested and everything in it goes through the liver. Dr.
Michael Roizen, co-author of the best selling book You,
the Owner's Manual, which has just been updated and expanded… When
you eat something with a pesticide on it both the food and the pesticide goes
through the liver. When you have medicine, the first place it stops is the liver
before it gets distributed to the body. So, the liver is the gateway to the body
and it doesn't get much respect and there are some wonderful myths. One
myth is that eating liver is good for your liver. Dr. Roizen says that couldn't
be more wrong. Remember
the liver detoxifies but it can't get rid of a number of toxins, such as polychlorolbiphenyls
and it just stores them. So when you eat liver you're storing some of the toxins
that that animal whose liver you're eating has ever been exposed to. It is, in
fact, the worst organ to eat because it also is saturated fat. So it is an organ
that is not good for you in any way. Since
we accumulate toxins in our liver, it's important to know how we can help get
rid of them. Cruciferous
vegetables: broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, cabbage - those help the liver
process things and get rid of them. Tomorrow,
how alcohol affects your liver - I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You
Should Know. | 
