What are some signs that your liver may not be working properly and how can you fix it? One sign that your liver cannot be working properly is nausea. Not the only cause but it is one sign. If the stools are pale that's another sign. If the urine goes dark that's another sign. The good news is the livers are a recoverable organ and once you start giving it the right conditions and so what the person does is they must listen and if there's a food that makes them feel nausea don't eat that food. Try, start simple, just start with a plate of steamed vegetables. Livers should be happy with that. Nausea should ease with that. And then there's some herbs, milk thistle, dandelion, they're two very simple ones, gentian which is another bitter herb, ginger called the sweet bitter. They are They are all herbs that when you take them little by little they strengthen the liver.