Liver Love

I’ll start with a funny. Years ago my husband and I were sitting in a drinking establishment. There was a guy at the bar wearing a tee-shirt that read “The Liver is Evil and Must be Punished’.
Drunk sardonic wit, lol. But with a splash of truth to it.
We live in an environment that ‘punishes’ this beautiful organ day in and day out with pollution, pesticides, chemicals in our food and water etc. And yet it carries on.

Now many of you know that the liver has two phases, phase 1 and phase 2.
Google defines this as:
”The “phases” of detoxification are described as functionalization (or phase I), or the addition of oxygen to form a reactive site on the toxic compound, and conjugation (phase II), or the process of adding a water-soluble group to this now reactive site.”

That’s all well and good but how the heck does your liver know what is and isn’t a toxin? Obviously, if it’s salmonella and it makes you sick, your liver knows what to do. But what about the 350,000 chemicals made by scientists, many of which are toxic?
How does our liver recognize all these chemicals and know what needs to be treated as a toxin and what does not?

Our livers have never in our evolution come into contact with these chemicals so it can’t already ‘know’ what to do with them. Your liver doesn’t have an MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) that it can ‘read’ to know what to do with these toxic chemicals…and yet it knows.

Long ago, I read an article about how the liver ‘reads’ the energetic signature of everything that comes its way. So just as we dowse or muscle test to determine if something is good or bad for us, our liver, in some way, does the same thing. It may not ‘know’ the exact energetic signature of a chemical its never seen but it knows that it doesn’t fit in. Whether it’s ‘not self’ or ‘it’s not of mother earth’.

To me, this is the miraculous beauty of the liver. It’s also the only organ in the human body that can regenerate. It can regrow to a normal size even if 90% of it has been removed! Wow!
And considering the Tale of Prometheus who was punished by having his liver devoured everyday by an eagle on a mountain top, I wonder if the ancient Greeks knew of the powers of the Liver. The ancient Greeks did believe that the liver was the seat of the soul, of life and intelligence. How did they know this? And what do we still not know about this amazing organ?
Share your thoughts below. How do you think the liver ‘knows’ what’s good or evil?

Thanks for reading!
Love and hugs,
~Christine