• Liver
• Colon
• Kidney
• Lung
• Gallbladder
  

Liver: Breaks Down Toxins

The liver filters, ingests and breaks down the toxic materials such as dead cells, microorganisms, chemicals, drugs, and debris that are found in our blood.

The liver, being one of the most important detox organs:

• Detoxifies and transforms internal and environmental toxins from its fat-soluble state into water-soluble, less harmful chemicals that are easier to excrete via body fluids like urine or bile.
  
  
• Has two sources of blood supply:
  1) The hepatic artery receives oxygenated blood.
  2) The portal vein brings in deoxygenated blood with newly-absorbed nutrients. The liver
  cells then extract its required nutrients, oxygen, toxins and wastes from the blood. The toxins and wastes are either stored within the liver or neutralised.
  
  
• The liver also filters the microorganisms such as parasites, bacteria, viruses and fungi from our blood. If we are continuously exposed to a toxic environment and consume unhygienic food or water frequently, the amount of toxins accumulation in our liver will be tremendous. When this happens, our liver will start to choke, where micro-organisms flow through our body system, making us weaker over time.
  

Gallbladder helps to facilitate proper supporting function towards our liver detox system. It stores bile that is produced by liver to emulsify fats and lubricate the intestines. Once toxins are eliminated by the liver, they are entrapped in the bile within the gallbladder and later excreted from the body through faecal riddance.

However, the gallbladder detox system can be congested if we do not maintain a proper diet or keep it ‘clean’. For example, gallstones are formed when bile hardens into stone-like material caused by a high calorie, protein and fat diet.

The colon, also known as large intestines, is the sewage and waste disposal system of our body. When the food we consumed reaches our colon in 8 to 10 hours’ time, it is processed and digested. Nutrients are absorbed by our body whereas toxins are eventually excreted.

Toxins are created in colon through the following process by the gut flora (friendly bacteria):

• Synthesis of vitamins and breaking down of remaining proteins in partially-digested food and gastric secretions.

It is important to flush out these toxins from our body through daily consistent bowel movement.

Many waste materials and toxins pass through our kidney to be filtered and excreted. Whenever nutrition is metabolised, waste products are produced. The kidney plays a role in:

• Removing toxic waste from our blood
• Clearing water and solutes
• Regulating the amount of sodium, chloride, sulfate, phosphate, and hydrogen substances in our body to prevent accumulation and to help excrete them via urination.