The ancient Greeks told a story about a man named Prometheus. Remember that dude? He stole fire from

the gods and gave it to humanity. As punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, and every day an eagle

came and tore out his liver. Oh, God. But every night, it grew back. They called it eternal torture. Now, the Greeks

were on to something. They didn't know that they were actually describing real biology.

Your liver is the only organ in the human body that can regenerate itself. I mean, until it can't. From a quarter of its

original mass, it grows back completely, which is why living donor liver transplants work at all.

A surgeon takes half of a healthy person's liver, gives it to someone who is dying, and both halves

grow back to full size within weeks.

The Greeks had no microscopes, no cell biology, no concept of organ regeneration, and yet

somehow, in the way that myths sometimes do, they got it exactly right.

And now, this is the organ we've decided needs a juice cleanse.

Welcome to the commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasno, and this is, is this right for me? A series

I started because the wellness conversation has gotten crazy and confusing and loud in a way

that isn't always useful. Every week there's something new in your feed, a peptide, a protocol,

a drug, a supplement, a procedure. And the question underneath all of the hype is always the same.

Does this actually do what it says? And if it does, is it right for me, specifically

with my history and my goals and the actual state of my body? Those are the questions I try to

answer here. I'm not a booster and I'm not a cynic. I've just done the reading as a curious

citizen scientist. I'll tell you where it led and you can decide for yourself.

So today, liver detoxes. Let's get into it.

Every January, people make their resolutions. They say, I'm going to be a better man than I was last year.

And many of those resolutions involves a cleanse. Maybe it's the master cleanse, lemon juice,

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