Liver Cleansing has been a popular topic nowadays. I have some friends even trying to get me do their liver cleansing diets and routines—I say, routine just because I consider everything done step-by-step as such. There are different types, one too many, to be honest—just the sheer number of it is enough to get you confused!
Ideally, liver cleansing is done to eliminate accumulated toxins inside the liver. If you just see it this way, you would think that liver cleansing is a must since we know how harmful toxins can be inside our body—you just have to get rid of them! However, it is important to see its health implications before you go overboard since liver cleansing is not as easy as it seems.
If you are interested in liver cleansing, it is advisable to consult your doctor first since liver cleansing, due to its popularity has already become a fad—a fad so riddled with misconceptions, it became harder to distinguish the truth. No matter how safe a liver cleansing method may seem, you need to have your doctor’s approval before undergoing one. Let’s take for example the most basic of all body cleansing method:  fasting. If you are a senior battling diabetes for only-God-knows-how-long, you know fasting and diabetes, when combined, can yield fatal result.
Liver detox diets should always be done with great care, and it won’t hurt if you throw some common sense to it as well. Such diets almost always require the cleanser to eliminate certain types of food, which, in an elderly vocabulary would mean yet another set of food to add to the long and never ending list of don’ts. Sure, there will be lesser fat and animal protein inside you and you may feel lighter than normal, may even cause weight loss as well which must be the most welcomed bonus of all but will it make the rest of your body happy? I think not. The problem with most liver cleansing methods is that they tend to be very restrictive to a point that it is no longer healthy for the cleanser. Healthy, young people can definitely take a short term onslaught of such cleansing however, the same cannot be said for seniors and older adults since their health are in their most vulnerable. Use it for long enough and you’ll definitely see damage even to the healthiest of bodies.
Your body has its own natural way of detoxifying itself, unless yours conks out. If it does, you’ll need a doctor to fix it, not by some alternative cleansing method. If you really want to take care of your liver, or prevent it from conking out proper diet is the best way to go.