It is effectively your body’s sorting room. The blood from your stomach and intestines passes through the liver to be processed, your liver then balances the nutrients and chemicals within it for the rest of your body to use most effectively. It also creates a lovely-sounding substance called bile which helps carry away all the waste and toxic by-products.

The liver and the intestines communicate extensively through the gut-liver axis; depressed liver function influences the gut lining and is associated with leaky gut and a healthy gut keeps the liver producing bile and glucose, and metabolising lipids which are essential for energy.

Liver disease can be an inherited condition, but there are also lots of lifestyle factors which can contribute to an unhealthy liver. Some of the warning signs of an unhealthy liver are:
Skin and eyes with a yellowish appearance

Itchy skin
Dark urine colour
Bruising easily
Swelling in the ankles and lower legs
Chronic fatigue

The probiotic drinks and live yogurts in the shops contain microbes but generally only from one or two families such as lactobacillus and streptococcus. They may also contain sugar and preservatives. Of course, they are better than fizzy drinks or processed food, but it will take a long time and a lot of them to benefit your digestive system. Our probiotic contains a wide range of microbes from 15 main families of bacteria, and within that there are many subcultures so it is a more complex and wide-ranging mix.