What
is a good diet for keeping liver cysts small?
The
following is a short list of what really keeps my liver from enlarging. For
a more complete list click here Liver
list of avoids and useful. My kidney functioning remains solid.
Doctors are not very familiar with the forms of diet that help with liver cysts. It has not
been studied. Some understand but they are not in our bodies so they are
not privy to the daily feedback from pain and discomfort that only we receive
which foods help and what doesn't. Check with your doctor to be sure
that everything here might be beneficial for you.
AVOID ALL ANIMAL PROTEINS
For about 6 months, I totally stopped all animal products-all dairy, eggs,
cheese, milk, meat, fish, poultry, game, lamb, broths, and more. Hamburger
or ground meats immediately cause me intense pain. I continue to avoid all ground meats.
JUICES
I drink plenty of fresh prepared by me juices and eat a variety of raw fruits
and vegetables. Avoiding only the nightshade vegetables (tomatoes, potatoes,
eggplant, peppers, and cigarette smoke and tobacco products), strawberries,
plums, prunes, celery is a bit tricky (I avoid because it causes me kidney
pain. Be sure it is organic if you use it. Pesticides are very high in celery
for some reason) all nuts except I do eat almonds, cashews, coconut, chestnuts,
and a few occasional walnuts.
GRAINS
spelt, rye, occasional oats, brown rice, black rice, wild rice, kamut. Soak
grains, nuts, legumes, peas, beans all overnight or longer to rid them of
phytates. Spelt is one of the best grains for the liver. It is a wonderful
tasting grain. Sometimes I rough grind it in a food processor and cook it
as a cereal. It resembles the taste of nuts to me. Or I will flattened the
grain into a flake and it tastes similar to oatmeal. I bake my own breads
without yeast or sugar or honey or any concentrated sugar or sweetener.
(avoid white rice) I found out quickly this causes me liver pain and bloating.
ALKALINE RAW FRUIT
twenty minutes before each meal
I had alkaline raw fruits first about twenty minutes before a meal such
as a banana, a pear, a sweet fuji apple, golden delicious apple, mango,
papaya, ripe kiwi. No more often than every other day, an orange, grapefruit,
tangerine, or some type of citrus. The only cooked foods I had were grains,
spelt non yeasted bread, roasted sweet potatoes, cooked sunchokes, artichokes,
beets, and other root vegetables. I avoided nightshade plants such as tomatoes,
potatoes, eggplant, peppers, cigarette smoke.
CABBAGE JUICE WITH ALMONDS
Daily I had cabbage juice with almonds. To this day, I take cabbage juice
with almonds.
LEMON JUICE
I have this first thing in the morning, then wait twenty minutes before
having anything else. This allows the natural enzymes of the lemons to be
present with what ever else I am eating. Lemon is a life saver for me. I
take perhaps up to three or four lemons in a single day. This relieves discomfort,
pain, bloating, liver pain, and migraine headaches – all part of PLD
polycystic liver disease.
I go for organic Myer lemons whenever I can find them.
SAFFRON TEA
Another life saver. This tea will take care of what ever is missed by the
lemon juice. It also helps the body to lay down new vessels. Keeps the blood
from being slow moving and sluggish and encourages healthy blood vessels
without aneurysm.
I have noticed from time to time that I get cramps in my fingers. When I
examine my fingers I find that a small blood vessel has burst right along
the edge where the cramp begins. This also happens in my toes and my legs.
I think this is from PLD polycystic liver disease. I also feel that both
saffron and supplemental all natural vitamin E (which I take only when I
have cramp) all help prevent future attacks.
MILK THISTLE TURMERIC ARTICHOKE
DIMS (BROCCOLI SPROUTS PILLS)
The above are very useful for my liver. They keep it healthy so it does
not hurt. I read that these herbs and supplements allow the liver to heal,
increase the metabolism of estrogen by-products through the liver, and I
actually noticed a measurable decrease in my abdominal girth when that was
a problem. It no longer is. I have had a liver resection and had 3/4's of
my cystic portions of my liver removed.
AVOID
AVOIDS FOR ALL HUMANS
peanuts, aluminum, candy, potato chips, lard, margarine.
AVOIDS
FOR PLD LIVER CYSTS
YEAST- maple syrup, honey, date sugar, sugar, all of these become a ferment
in the body and become yeast like. The yeast like reaction creates a ferment
similar to wine making from grape juice. This creates alcohol in the body
and is very destructive to a cystic liver.
DETRIMENTAL FOODS - vinegar, pastry, wheat, potato, tomato, peppers, eggplant, chocolate, coffee,
white rice, soy, chicken, ground meats and fish and poultry, diary,
The key is to have plenty of greens in daily salads. The salad dressing
I make is olive oil and lemon juice. Vinegar is to be avoided. It too creates an alcohol ferment
in the body. And of course to juice, juice, juice. Flush
the body with plenty of freshly squeezed pressed prepared by yourself juices.
AVOIDS ALWAYS for liver cysts
hormones
estrogen
caffeine
chocolate
coffee
cola
even de-caf
black tea
green tea
white tea
phytoestrogens (soy)
xenoestrogens (DDT, pesticides, herbicides |
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