10 Health Benefits of Monk Fruit
Monk Fruit Benefit #10: Protects the Liver
The liver is the second largest organ in the body after the skin, and is the largest internal organ. Among the many functions of the liver, it is involved in making proteins and in detoxification so that the body is kept healthy and free from toxins. When the liver is damaged, many things can go wrong, among them the inability to carry out metabolism of both natural chemical substances produced by the body and medicines and other ingested chemicals.
By helping to break down cholesterol, mogrosides from monk fruit protect the liver from inflammation and accompanying damage. In animal-based experiments, monk fruit extracts were found to restore the antioxidant capabilities of the liver by improving the levels of superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase, which are enzymes that play a vital role in detoxification.
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