Tests show liver damage--how can I help my liver out?

I’m 20 years old. I’ve been struggling with sexual dysfunction and brain fog for about 6 months now after quitting fin. I finally got some bloodwork done. My testosterone is about normal (683, with a reference range of 250-110) but my liver appears to be a bit off. My AST is 58 (with a reference range of 10-40) and my ALT is 100 (with a reference range of 9-60). I haven’t been drinking recently.

I’m trying to be patient, exercise, sleep, get the right nutrients, and let me liver heal itself with time. But do you guys have any thoughts on anything I could do to help my liver out? I’m currently taking a multi vitamin/mineral, Vitamin C, Zinc, and Tyrosine. I am thinking about trying Jarrow’s Ox Bile, which I hear is kind on the liver.

Thanks! Good luck to you all.

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Thanks

Generally taking digestive enzymes is like supplementing, it may take strain off your liver but your liver may also adapt to this extra help. Your liver processes everything you’re taking in. Unfortunately we do not know the extent of liver damage that may have occurred through taking finasteride, though we know it alters liver enzymes.

In general quality whole foods (such as those recommended as a part of the paleo diet) are the best source of vitamins and minerals and everything your body needs, it is a healthier route to eat these than lower quality factory processed foods and try to supplement vitamins to fill the gaps. Xhorndog did a small write up of this in another thread.

Before taking any action thoroughly research your choices - it’s your responsibility, not someone’s who posted on an internet forum.

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martin – does the liver actually supply the body with the digestive enzymes necessary to properly process food in the digestive tract?

Again Bryce I’m not sure what your point is. From Wiki about the liver:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver

The poster inquired about taking ox bile.

just a question about when you said taking digestive enzymes helps take strain off the liver. i wasn’t sure if digestive enzymes are made in the liver or where they were from originally in the body besides supplementing with them.

You have the internet as a tool to fact check. Google is just waiting for you to use it…

yeah, it’s not made in the liver which is why i was halfway confused, why did you say that taking digestive enzymes takes strain off the liver, or were you referring to bile acid as taking strain off the liver?

Bile is made in the liver.

yeah i think we are halfway missing each other. digestive enzymes don’t typically include bile. as in, when you buy digestive enzymes from the store they include stuff like proteases and lipases and amylases a few others. the majority of the digestive enzymes are released by saliva, pancreas, i think stomach as well. but yeah, bile acids are released by the liver and they help digesting something, you are right, but i was confused when you said supplementing with digestive enzymes helps take ease off liver, this isn’t true, they don’t contain bile. so yeah, we are both randomly missing info here.

This is what your looking for. This isn’t going to be fun. But this is the BEST way to cleanse and detoxify your liver. Its also inexpensive.

COFFEE CLEANSE (Taken from ‘The Gerson Therapy’)

Detoxification of the body is critical. Enemas made from drip-grind coffee have proven themselves an advantageous means of restoring the liver. The caffeine drug in coffee administered as an enema definitely detoxifies the liver. The liver is the main organ of regeneration of the body’s metabolism for the transformation of food from intake to output.

While the coffee enema is being retained in the gut (for optimum period ranging from 12-15 minutes), all of the body’s blood passes through the liver every three minutes. The hemorrhoidal blood vessels dilate from exposure to the caffeine; in turn, the liver’s portal veins dilate also. Simultaneously, the bile ducts expand with blood, the bile flow increases, and smooth muscles of these internal organs relax. The blood serum and its many components are detoxifed as this vital fluid passes through the individual’s caffeinated liver. The quart of water being retained in the bowel stimulates the visceral nervous system, promoting peristalsis. The water delivered through the bowel dilutes the bile and causes an even greater increase in bile flow. There is a flushing of toxic bile which is further affected by the body’s enzymatic catalyst known to physiologists as glutathione S-transferase (GST).

The coffee enema lowers blood serum toxins, literally cleaning the poisons out of fluids nourishing normal cells. Invariably, small quantities of poisons are contained therein. Each cell is challenged by toxins, oxygen starvation, malnutrition, or trauma which collectively alter the cell’s molecular configuration and cause it to lose its preference for potassium. As we know, sodium competes with potassium for association sites in damaged cells.

Loss of cellular potassium and increase of cellular sodium results in decreased electron flow through the damaged cell, which some biochemists refer to as a macromolecule. This injured macromolecule becomes unnatural to paramagnetic ions and a subsequent disorganization of water molecules may take place. When the internal environment of the macromolecule becomes polluted with excess water and extracellular materials, mitochondrial production of ATP is greatly impaired. The result is that macromolecules can not produce sufficient energy to repair themselves unless the challenge is removed.

Energy production and immunity are depressed in these macromolecules, which are swollen with excess salt and water. Such damaged tissue possesses a decreased blood circulation because oversized edematous cells crowd together inside the capillaries, arterioles, and lymph ducts.

Enzyme systems in the liver and small bowel are responsible for conversion and neuralization of the four most common tissue toxins, polyamines, ammonia, toxic-bound nitrogen and electrophiles, all of which can cause cell and membrane damage. Such protective liver and gut enzyme systems are massively increased in their beneficial effects by coffee enemas. Twenty years after his death, editors at the highly scientific journal ‘Physiological Chemistry and Physics’, complimented Dr. Gerson by reprinting one of his works. They afffirmed, “Caffeine enemas cause dilation of bile ducts, which facilitates excretion of toxic cancer breakdown products by the liver and dialysis of toxic products from blood across the colonic wall”.

Making Coffee

Bring 1 quart of distilled water to a boil
Add 3 rounded tbsp of organic coffee
Boil without a lid for 3 minutes
Lower heat to simmer and simmer for 15 minutes with lid partially on
Strain solution through a fine strainer or line a coarse strainer with a filter cloth.
Now add enough water to bring coffee back to 1 quart.
Cool coffee to warm temperature to your finger - as for a baby’s bath.

Administration
If you are able to get up and down a clean bathroom floor works best. You may prefer to put some soft padding on the bathroom floor, cover it with plastic and a towel (a lawn chaise pad is excellent), plop down a pillow and lie down on that padded floor. Make sure you are warm and comfortable.

Lie on “right” side with knees pulled up in relaxed position and insert rectal tube 4-6 inches. Then turn on valve slightly to allow the coffee to go in slowly to avoid cramping. You can shut the valve off if cramping begins and deep breath. When feeling comfortable allow more coffee to go in.

Hold the coffee for 12-15 minutes and then go to the bathroom. It is not advisable to hold it longer since the liquid will be absorbed into the colon.

In the beginning you may want to start with 1 or 2 cups from the above recipe and just hold it as long as you can. The process will improve quickly with time as cleansing takes place.

let us know if the jarrow ox bile helps out. thanks

Westside, thank you! The Coffee Cleanse looks like something I would be willing to try. My only question is… rectal tube. Where do I get one/any brand recommendations? Have you done this? How’d it work for you? This is very foreign territory for me.

Researcher, I haven’t noticed much from the ox bile yet, but I’ll keep updating. Definitely no negative effects. I would say I am feeling slightly better since starting, but that could be a number of things.