Recently, liver cleansing has become perhaps the most popular detox program. Expert Sergey Vyalov told what such amateur performance could be fraught with.
“Some have such a hobby — to clean the liver at the slightest ailment. And you don’t need to clean it, nothing like that accumulates in it. Of course, in the process of work, it can “break” and collapse. Therefore, it needs to be repaired, not cleaned. Better yet, take care of it,” the doctor comments.
One of the frequent “breakdowns” of the liver is fatty hepatosis. Based on the name of the pathology, it is easy to guess that its cause is excessive accumulation of fats.
Hepatosis develops when the balance between the formation and utilization of fats is disturbed. And here there are already reasons: from diabetes to a failure in metabolism.
By the way, not only overweight people with large amounts of excess weight, but also thin people suffer from hepatosis. Moreover, the latter suffer this disease more severely and with complications from the cardiovascular system.
The popular methods of “cleansing the liver” with the help of licorice and milk thistle, the expert generally calls dangerous. These herbs have many contraindications and side effects. If you came out of such a “cleansing” without consequences, consider yourself lucky, the doctor concludes. 
Sergey Vyalov Healthy lifestyle Gastroenterologist , hepatologist