faux medicine hocus pocus by a snakeoil salesman who is NOT A DOCTOR
I completely missed the small print 'medical medium' and picked this up because my liver bloodwork was a little strange and, like a growing number of Americans, have some mysterious chronic symptoms that doctors have a tough time diagnosing.
This isn't even very well written! I kept having to skip dozens of paragraphs, pages and pages and chapter after chapter, just to get small kernels of common-sense wisdom - drink lots more water and eat less processed food, especially veggies and fruits. Finally I thought to check the author's bio paragraph and sure enough, he's not medically trained AT ALL.
I will not be recommending this book to anyone. Read instead: [b:Food Rules: An Eater's Manual|7015635|Food Rules An Eater's Manual|Michael Pollan|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348526224l/7015635._SY75_.jpg|7261546] ( )

This is another incredible book by Anthony William.

I didn’t expect this book to be so illuminating and informative as it is.

We are informed of all the functions of the liver that we previously knew nothing of.

The liver is conscious and has amazing powers of healing and regeneration. It processes fat and protects our pancreas.

Our diet should be composed of 15 percent or less of healthy fats from avocados, nuts, seeds, olives, olive oil, coconut oil, hempseed oil, coconut meat and coconut milk. The rest of our diet should include ample fruits, leafy greens, vegetables, potatoes, squash and if desired, millet and some legumes. The liver is then able to create the necessary bile composition.

Anthony calls this diet “Code Green”, and it is the optimal diet. Then there are codes of various other colours ending with the most dangerous one “Code Red-Plus” which is when a diet is 3o percent or more fat, some of it from fried foods, rancid everyday cooking oils such as Canola oil, palm oil and corn oil, lard and more.

Anthony states that Code Red-Plus is common when someone is on a ketogenic diet. The renowned Dr Mercola, whom I otherwise much admire, promotes the ketogenic diet and when I write on-line about Anthony’s views on the dangers of this diet Dr Mercola’s many fans are up in arms against me.

The harmfulness to the liver of too much fat is something I was previously totally ignorant about before reading this book.

The liver is literally starving on a high-fat diet. If we’re on a diet with no carbohydrates, like fruit, squash, potatoes, sweet potatoes and raw honey, our liver will slowly starve and we’ll age rapidly. If we do eat carbohydrates and they’re always accompanied by fat, our liver can also starve for glucose.

The liver is our constant companion, tirelessly working for us. It is highly active and engages in over 2000 responsibilities related to “storing, delivering, processing, expelling, cleaning, creating and manufacturing”.

The book contains innumerable valuable chapters providing us with information not yet known to medical science.

Dark under-eye circles, Raynaud’s syndrome, gout, varicose veins, inflammation and insomnia are or, in the latter case, can be, due to what Anthony terms “dirty blood syndrome”.

Most of us are chronically dehydrated. To help against this we should consume 16 oz of lemon or lime water first thing in the morning. Anthony advises us to do what he calls Liver Rescue Morning, which entails drinking the lemon water and refraining from consuming fats before lunchtime.

He offers us a valuable cleansing programme called Liver Rescue 3:6:9 which we should do at least once every two to three months. It is divided into three parts. The first part, called The 3, consists of a preparation phase. In The 6, the internal cleansing begins, and in The 9, the final three days, the liver “gets to let go, sending multitudes of troublemakers into your bloodstream for delivery out of your body”.

Most of the cleanse consists of eating apples, which are tremendously healthy for us, much more than we realize; but delicious meals such as steamed asparagus and Brussels sprouts with Liver Rescue Salad are included.

Recipes for the mentioned meals are provided, complete with appetizing photos.

Brussels sprouts and asparagus are so valuable for us that even if we usually confine ourselves to eating organic fruits and vegetables, as I do, if we can’ get hold of these, it is absolutely worthwhile to eat the ordinary ones instead.

A high-protein diet automatically means high-fat, so we need to avoid these.

We are warned against liver and gallbladder flushes, which are far too extreme and make matters worse. Though apple cider vinegar is the best of the vinegars, the liver hates all vinegar.

There’s a chapter listing and describing “powerful foods, herbs and supplements for your liver”.

A whole chapter is devoted to acne, which is caused by “a chronic low-grade level of Streptococcus”. The problem is exacerbated by antibiotics.

There is even a chapter containing Liver Rescue Meditations.

I have found all Anthony William’s books, and each time I read one feel that one is even more valuable than the previous ones, and that is what I feel about Liver Rescue too. It is an amazing book which has provided me with much completely new information.

The next of his books on my reading list is Thyroid Healing, so I’ll be ordering it shortly. ( )