MooPig FWD Email :: "Detoxify your Liver"

Al Sears, MD
11903 Southern Blvd., Ste. 208
Royal Palm Beach, FL 33411

December 12, 2012

Dear Patdarnell,

Most of my patients figure as long as they don’t overuse alcohol or drugs, their liver is safe.

But alcohol isn’t your biggest worry. The problem facing your liver in the modern world is excess fat. Being overweight contributes to 52% of liver disease. Evidence suggests that alcohol contributes to only 6% of liver damage.1

The solution, however, in not cutting fat out of your diet like many mainstream nutritionists and medical “experts” advise. This only makes the problem worse.

Your liver is made to handle fat. Fat is an essential macronutrient and your liver uses fat to help your body work like it’s supposed to.

The answer to liver health is much more simple... just help it to take out the trash.

In fact, did you know that if your liver didn’t continually remove metabolic trash, you would be dead in a matter of hours?

A pure, clean liver is important because when it’s working well your liver:

Manufactures bile to help break down fat.
Filters harmful toxins and substances (including alcohol) out of your blood and allows nutrients to get to your cells.
Produces more than 13,000 crucial chemicals and hormones including cholesterol, testosterone, and estrogen.
Manages over 50,000 enzymes to maintain a healthy body.
Regulates blood sugar levels and prevents dangerous spikes and lows.
Stores essential vitamins and minerals – including vitamins A, D, K, and B12 – to help keep your bones from crumbling.
Even more important than what your liver does is what can happen when your liver is not working properly.

To get rid of all this waste, your liver will create balls of fat that collect in the liver itself. This is normally a good thing, except when you start storing excess fat, it can be the start of a “fatty liver,” a very dangerous condition. Then those fats can spill into your blood in the form of triglycerides, which boost your risk of a heart-related disaster.

Your liver will also move excess toxins to different places in your body, including your skin. Many skin conditions like dandruff and some rashes are tell-tale signs of a sick liver.

Also, a fatty liver can zap your strength, vitality – even your sex drive. Fatigue, frequent illness and “problems in the bedroom” can potentially have a connection to a sluggish or sick liver.

Fortunately, there are three things you can do right now to keep excess fat from overwhelming your liver, and your good health.

The first is to melt off the extra fat. You don’t have to strain yourself, just do a little biut more than you’re used to, or change up your exertion – while keeping the duration brief – and you’ll re-train your body build muscle instead of store fat. This will take the extra burden off your liver.
The second is to help your liver by avoiding toxins. And I’m not just talking about environmental pollutants. I’m talking about the chemicals in processed foods, too. Try to avoid foods that are “refined” or processed with artificial ingredients.
Third, you can cleanse your liver. Your liver wasn’t designed to function in a world full of chemicals and other unnatural substances. That’s why I recommend you detoxify at least twice a year.
Your liver might seem perfectly healthy, but it’s vital to keep it that way and not let pollutants build up. A good solution for keeping your liver cleansed comes from my colleague Dr. Michael Cutler. It’s called Liver & Kidney Cleanse and is an effective option for liver detox.

You get a unique, scientifically formulated combination of 10 powerful nutrients to help unclog your liver and help eliminate dangerous toxins from alcohol, prescription drugs, household chemicals, processed foods and more. Learn more directly from Dr. Cutler himself.

To Your Good Health,


Al Sears, MD

1. Obesity is the Cause of Most U.S. Liver Damage: Risk of Disease Fourfold Higher in Obese. Mitchel L. Zoler. Family Practice News. July 1, 2004.

Muse Juice 1995

A Brief History of  Time... Eb and Flo of David and Johnny
by Pat Darnell

Bryan-College Station, TX  |  04.19.2010
In a conference room at St. Agatha’s is Dr. Harbor– a Presbyterian Minister–, David Crosby, and Johnny Lydon. It is the year 1995.

Dr Harbor [Presbyter Minister]: “I have known both of you all your lives; I know your parents and I have performed marriages and funerals for many of your relations.”

[Crosby and Lydon both nod in agreement to what Dr. Harbor is saying.]

Dr Harbor: “You both sang in the choirs from childhood till you left in your late teens, correct?” Both nod yes. “I baptized you, Johnny, in 1968 when you were twelve, and I baptized you David in 1953.”

“Now Johnny I have you both here because it is time you own up to the fact that your music is not as good as David’s. Therefore, I ask you to consider the long term part of your golden years as Johnny Rotten?”

Johnny: “Why is that Dr Harbor? I have a large following! [A bit shocked]”

Dr Harbor: “Let me explain Johnny, David’s songs are about genuine feelings of love for women, for the sea, and for humanity. David never contrives a song as a ‘hit,’ rather he mixes concoctions of heart and beauty …the results are organic, non-formulaic, asymmetric structure, naturally flowing melody wrapped in rich open-tunings from his guitar.”

David: “Hey, I’m a happy guy. When I get an idea I want to pursue it immediately because there is a certain surge of muse juice right at that point [laughter].”

Dr Harbor: “I want you both to know I was there at the birth of Rock ‘n Roll. I know in my heart what spawned it, and I have suffered the up and down roller coasters in my days, of pop culture and its impact on our liturgy. Yes?”

Johnny: [looks very unhappy] “You two are making me feel rotten. I have tried to end Rock ‘n Roll. It’s an old fashion format, idiots performing, and it’s a plague, it’s rotten, it’s a disease.”

Dr. Harbor: “To continue, coming from a non-musical background… I will try instead to compare to decadence:“

Satire is the last flicker of originality in a passing epoch, as it faces the on-road of staleness and boredom. Freshness has gone: bitterness remains. The prolongation of outworn forms of life means a slow decadence in which there is repetition without any fruit in the reaping of value. There may be high survival power. For decadence undisturbed by originality or by external forces is a slow process. But the values of life are slowly ebbing. There remains the show of civilization, without any of its realities. (Whitehead, Alfred N; 1955, Adventures of ideas)

... “Due to numerous present-day responsibilities, even “Muse Juice” is no longer what it once was… fits very well – for instance the intent of artists, musicians and painters alike, to get off the stuff; to get clean of substance abuse. Like these lyrics --

If I could just make it [off] this time, I’d never need to read another highway sign;
Smoking [ditch] weed, drinking rocket fuel… brother tell me where you been? (0:56, Salvation, Pribek)

And David’s lyrics of one of his first songs:
When I finally get myself together
I’m going to get down in that sunny southern weather
And I find a place inside to laugh
Separate the wheat from the chaff
I feel like I owe it to someone (D Crosby, Almost cut my hair)

Decadence is when the parts of the organism [say a flower] no longer support the life of the organism. It is similar in my mind to sour grapes, flower petals after pollination….

“I ask you two my esteemed students… lyricists, com-mentors, tort-mentors and emailers, is this our way of being part of “those who deplore decadence because we are nostalgic for a golden age of social unity, while those who praise decadence elevate the self-aware, seemingly self-determined individual, answerable only to himself/herself?”

“If so, then this is where you, Johnny Rotten, come in… between the advance and decline of art is The Dialectic of Decadence... (Donald Kuspit, 1993 and 2000, the Dialectic of decadence)
By the mid-sixties [a] minimalist faith created a distinct crisis in painting. Painting had corroborated the flat reality that it secretly always had been. With Stella’s flat black paintings, Ryman’s flat white paintings, and Marden’s flat gray paintings, [Rothko's hazes of non-colors,] young artists, at least the ones that acknowledged this history were literally up against the wall, with no place to go.

“And there remain you Johnny Lydon to this day… a minimalist who is on a mission with no place to go.”

“That is why I ‘Dr Harbor in 1995’ ask you Johnny Rotten to donate your liver to David Crosby.”

“Just in case we need a backup liver, we need yours, Johnny.”

"Can't things just turn out like I planned," sighed Dr Harbor ...

If Dr Harbor is the authority that both musicians most trust then State-of-art for arguments’ sake crashes into state-of-the-art of scientific achievement for liver transplants. If Dr Harbor had these two as students and knows their entire history, he has a moral judgment ahead of the possibility that Lydon’s liver will be compatible with Crosby’s metabolism or not.

a Conclusion
When is the best time to let Lydon know his liver is on call? What value is the comparisons made in the uncomfortable meeting; and will the objections stymie science lag and extinction periods?