The media used to advertise Carter's Little Liver Pills until the authorities finally said, "They do nothing for the liver." Now they are Carter's Little Pills. Cute.
I learned at a Yale Medical School training event that the key to addiction is the ability of our liver to breakdown almost any chemical, including manufactured and newly invented ones. The liver even becomes better at its digesting ability during the first use.
Therefore, our liver is the most powerful and adaptive chemical factory on earth, always finding new ways to break down compounds for our weal or woe. The liver is too good for those who abuse it.
What had me grinding my teeth was the bevvy of physicians who wanted to sell statins to Christina. Statins block the liver from doing its job, often with bad results. If the goal is lower cholesterol, walnuts and almonds do that and add other good things to the body (without being asked). Statins often cause bad side effects. I have told every eager doctor, "They are a crock, fraudulent." One wanted to force a statin because it would hopefully cause rashes and help him in a "study." Funded by the statin salesmen?
Let's go back to the training about alcohol and drug abuse. (I was there to learn, not to detox.) One way to keep an alcoholic from drinking is to give daily doses of Antabuse (the name used decades ago). The pill blocks the safe breakdown of alcohol and turns it into a toxic form that really makes people sick - even from merely inhaling the fragrance of Budweiser and Jack Daniels.
Bad Liver!
The bad side of our liver is its ability to break down substances better and faster all the time. What begins with YUK! turns into YES!! Note -There is no known connection between the liver and the brain. That is why the lucrative business models of child and adult narcotics exist and flourish, followed by expensive treatments centers to dampen what was first begun.
Good Liver!
The good side of our liver is its ability to turn inexpensive, packed-with-nutrition foods into powerful agents against disease and decay. What seems truly yukky at first can become delicious in time. My parents knew about this, so they forced us to try all kinds of vegetables they enjoyed from growing up on the farm. Like drug pushers, they said, "Try it just once. String beans will not hurt you!"
At the Senior Center lunch, they offered me milk or chocolate milk. I said, "Yuk!" So they offered me Coke. I said, "I started out addicted to milk, but I was weaned and gave it up."
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