There's a strong connection between liver health and skin conditions. After working with skin for over 20 years, my opinion is that the liver plays a crucial role in skin health due to detoxifying the body, balancing hormones, and metabolizing nutrients. When the liver isn't functioning optimally, these imbalances can manifest in various skin conditions!

My clients often come into my practice with a mysterious rash, rosacea flare-up, acne, eczema, etc., and ask me “Where does this stem from?”

Most of the time, every skin condition stems from the liver.

Troublemakers like copper, mercury, pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals build up over time in your liver and make it sluggish. When the liver becomes overloaded, the organ grows sluggish, and it can't detox as well. Its functions slow down. The poisons then trigger a skin condition.

If your body becomes overrun by toxins, it will make its way up to the skin (helping you rid yourself of toxins, one of the skin's true purposes). The dematoxins then cause the skin issues.

The client will usually blame whatever they were doing yesterday or today and say, for example, “I had too much sugar or alcohol yesterday.” They seem to find all sorts of possible reasons why their skin is giving them trouble. The truth is the dermatoxins causing your skin flare-up took a very long time to be produced and released through the skin.

From my experience, you need to pace the process of healing the liver. As the liver is cleansing, dermatoxins flush fast and furious to the skin surface, and the skin condition gets worse before it gets better. That's why supporting my clients throughout this process with facial massage and LED light therapy is important. You need to be patient to heal these skin conditions. If there is a lot of waste material stored deep in the liver, it will take longer to flush out completely. Depending on the severity, as time goes on, you will free yourself from the skin condition and keep away from “liver troublemakers.”

Some of my clients see results immediately. For some of them, the skin condition minimizes and over time they free themselves altogether.

So how do I save my liver? Let me give you some tips on how to heal or support your liver to empower your skin:

Powerful foods, herbs and supplements for the liver

Ditch pre-packaged and processed foods first. Reducing caffeine, alcohol and sugar.
Eating a mainly plant based, organic, whole food diet helps to support healthy body composition with diverse nutrients.

Eating with a liver-loving diet offers your liver and gut the ideal defense against chronic disease and unnecessary suffering from unwanted fat accumulation in the liver. Find out more about healing foods and liver healing recipes in the Medical Medium Liver Rescue book.

Incorporate some detoxifying liver herbs to support healthy regeneration:

Liver Cleanse Complex is a unique combination of choline, milk thistle, artichoke, and turmeric for detoxification and liver health. My favorite powder is Liver Greens. It contains a mega-load of ingredients that help eliminate heavy metals, environmental toxicity accumulation, and stressors inhibiting overall liver function. It is a great way to receive liver loving benefits, while promoting cleansing and alkalizing within the body, and while easing digestion and boosting the metabolism.

My favorite herbs that I recommend:

Milk thistle, the “queen” of detoxifying herbs! Its active ingredient, silymarin, helps to strengthen the cell walls of the liver, and can eliminate the buildup of heavy metals and toxins. This rejuvenates the liver and helps perk it up out of stagnation.

Turmeric helps with overall performance of the liver by preventing the accumulation of fats. It also has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.

Burdock Blood cleanser and liver function supporter is an anti-inflammatory root that can be taken as a supplement or as a detox tea.

Intermittent fasting

Intermittent fasting often leads to overall weight loss, which is crucial for reducing liver fat and improving liver health. Fasting triggers a cellular "clean-up” where cells break down and remove damaged components, including those in liver cells, allowing for rejuvenation and repair. This is vital for maintaining liver function and can help clear out damaged liver cells and reduce oxidative stress.

Intermittent fasting has been linked to a reduction in systemic inflammation, which can help protect the liver from damage. Fasting can enhance the liver's ability to produce bile, further aiding its natural detoxification processes. Abstaining from eating with intention can provide our body with the time it needs to repair and cleanse itself because the liver and digestive system are able to conserve more energy. This cellular detox process is known as autophagy, or “self-eating”, a period during which healthy cells eat unhealthy cells.

Daily Rituals that help support your liver

Treating your liver well can be done in small, meaningful ways each day. If you do this, you’ll be making a commitment to your overall health. When combined with conscious self-care that aims to lower stress, and keep you hydrated, relaxed and well rested is a winning combination for maintaining excellent liver health daily.

Starting the day with a glass of warm water with the juice of half a lemon can aid to flush toxins. Lemon has a diuretic effect, helping your body (including your liver) flush out harmful substances. Lemon juice also stimulates the liver to produce more bile, which aids in digestion and helps carry away toxins.

High plain water intake of 8-10 glasses a day can boost energy, increase fat oxidation, lower body weight, and reduce the risk of fatty liver disease. Proper hydration helps your kidneys and liver process and excrete waste products effectively through urine.

Avoid unnecessary toxins, which burden the liver. Starting with a goal of a few days or a week, try eliminating alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, sugar, GMO and processed foods. If that feels too daunting, choose one at a time to focus on. Excessive sugar (refined sugar and sugar from alcohol) can lead to unwanted fat accumulation (even if you’re not overweight), forcing the liver to slow down and reduce its efficiency.

Adequate Sleep: Your body, including your liver, performs repair and regeneration processes during sleep. Check out my chapter on beauty sleep, for tips on sleeping.

Sweating is important! Using an infrared sauna regularly as the potential to regulate may help eliminate toxic trace metals through sweating. A stress-relieving bath can also help support daily detoxing with added benefits from epsom salts. Getting your body moving every day can help to remove potentially harmful molecules via the pores, lowering fat in the liver and boosting overall liver health.

Taking a moment to tune in to your liver with meditation can be very powerful. Rather than your liver serving your needs 24/7 every single day, meditation, taking a salt bath, and walking in the park, for example, can serve your liver. Even if it's for 5-10 min a day, a little goes a long way.

Sensitivity, intuition, and perception may all arise as a result of liver flushing. As you adopt these habits, expect the “purging” to affect both psychology and physiology.

You have to look after your liver otherwise it will eventually catch up with you and show in your skin! Adopting a liver-friendly lifestyle is key.