<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> HI List. Valerie's story about lowering her cholesterol and the reasons it happened is right on. I have a book called "The Liver Cleansing Diet" that I use and use to counsel my clients in my holistic health practice. It is written by Sandra Cabot, MD. She is an Australian doctor who developed this way of eating to help numerous health issues in her patients. It is a very, very easy read. She also has a website: www.liverdoctor.com Whenever there is an immune challenge, the liver has to work overtime. It is a major organ of detoxification. What Valerie did was to change her diet to the foods that help the liver to function properly (liver-friendly foods). Dr. Cabot outlines this in her simple book. Carrots and beets are two simple foods that can help. I juice them. She also has a recipe in her book for what she calls--LSA (linseed, sunflower, almonds) It is a mixture of ground nuts (high essential fatty acids) that she advises people to sprinkle on their foods daily. I know some of you do this anyway. Excerpt from her book: "when I first designed the liver cleansing diet several years ago with the aim of helping those with stubborn weight problems or liver damming, Idid not realize that I would observe its powerful healing and balancing effects in many other seemingly unrelated health problems. On many occasions I have been amazed to watch this diet, over a period of four to twelve weeks, overcome problems that in the past I may have felt obligated in the first instance to treat with drugs. In many patients drugs can be avoided through the use of this diet, although in some acute problems drug therapy will be necessary and the diet can be used simultaneously." I highly recommend the book. It has helped me and many, many others. It is an easy, popular book to find---Barnes and Noble any other book stores carry it. She has a companion cookbook, also. If we can assist our livers to function better--our whole bodies do. An anecdote: I gave this book to a fellow practitioner---they gave it to a client. After 6 months, he had not returned the book. She called him--and he apologized for not returning it. He said--this book has cost me $120! She asked him why and he said--it worked so well, I gave a copy to just about everyone I know! Blessings and better health to all! Lorri in Colorado