How Water Improves Liver Functionality

How Water Improves Liver Functionality

As we've touched upon in other articles on this topic, water is an essential ingredient to the proper functionality of every single part of your body. A human bodies blood supply requires water, the organs require water, the muscles, fat tissue and even the bones all require water too.

Water is the key component of helping your body to dispose of wastes, toxins and bacteria properly. And the largest waste disposal system in your body is the solid waste disposal. This system is made up of the liver, gall bladder, and the intestines or colon. The liver is an essential part of this disposal system though, because it's job is to filter out the toxins, bacteria and waste. The liver creates bile from the toxins it filters from your system, and then sends that on to the gall bladder. The gall bladder then sends the wastes in solid form to the colon, where the wastes are supposed to be quickly and efficiently removed from your body.

A body which does not get enough water each day though, has extra stress added to the liver functionality. The liver is not able to filter and process wastes and toxins from your system as effectively when it does not have an adequate supply of water. So the liver starts functioning slower, and at less than optimal levels, and this can cause a variety of health problems throughout your body because toxins are no longer being filtered as well.

The secondary effect of not having enough water though, happens in the colon itself. As solid wastes move through the five to six foot length of your intestines, additional water is being removed from them through the thin colon walls. This drys the waste material out as it travels through your body.

If there isn't enough water in the waste material to begin with, and it dries out even further as it travels down the colon, it quickly becomes very sticky, and sometimes even hard or brittle. And when it's sticky, hard or brittle, it can become stuck in the colon. This is often referred to as constipation, because the solid waste material is too hard and dry to be expelled properly from the body. And it's this reason that one of the most natural remedies in the world for constipation is to simply drink more water.

When waste materials are stuck or slowed down greatly in your colon though, the toxins and bacteria that is supposed to be expelled can start leaking back into your blood stream. And this can create a whole host of different health problems in your body, because everything is attached to the colon through nerve endings. So a backed up or stagnated colon can create skin problems such as eczema or psoriasis, it can create various types of infections, sinus problems, colds and more too.

So just by drinking enough water to keep your colon and liver healthier, you're contributing to the overall improved health of your entire body.

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