If there was an opportunity to take and fold the surfaces of all liver cells, then in total would be an area comparable to the size of a small town - 330 square meters. But the liver only looks like an invincible giant - for repairing irreparable harm to it can most innocent at first glance things. What to do? How to maintain your liver healthy throughout life? Answer this and other questions below.
Worst of all, many liver diseases in the initial stages are asymptomatic. The liver is truly a unique organ that can perform its functions even with 20% of the stored tissue. And these 20% are enough for the whole body to function normally. But if the process of destruction does not stop in time and bring the case to the final stage, a person dies within a few hours of poisoning (the liver stops producing bile, thanks to which the normal distribution of nutrients and the removal of toxins from the body). What can harm your liver?
Risk Factor:
ALCOHOL
What is dangerous? In the body, alcohol decomposes to the final substances - water and carbon dioxide - only when consumed in extremely small amounts, about 20 grams per day. When this dose is exceeded, the liver begins to accumulate excess alcohol and its breakdown products - peroxide compounds. These compounds destroy the cellular membranes of hepatocytes (the cells that make up the liver), as a result, the contents of the cell seem to "leak out" and provoke inflammatory reactions.
What to do? Even a person indifferent to alcohol, it is difficult to always adhere to the established safe measure. Holidays, anniversaries and simply significant events can not be imagined without a glass of wine or a stronger drink. But before you say a toast to your health, remember how long have you checked the condition of your liver? A slight excess of the norm is possible only if the last analyzes (no less than half a year ago) have shown that everything is in order.
Risk Factor:
MEDICINES
What is dangerous? Modern medicines are sometimes comparable in efficiency to the surgeon's scalpel. Naturally, as for the effect on the body, they are no less traumatic. The main impact from the effects of drugs takes on the liver, which is involved in their cleavage. Hepatocytes do not cope with the load, increase in size, they begin to be deposited fat, which should not normally be. There is a so-called fatty degeneration of the liver.
What to do? Use medicines, whose effect on the liver is reduced to almost zero. These are tablets that are not metabolized (that is, not processed) by liver cells, but are excreted through the night. Carefully study the annotation. It is better to buy the medicine, about which it is written: "completely eliminated from the body." And, naturally, do not get carried away by self-medication. Remember that only a doctor will be able to select drugs that have a minimal side effect on the body.
Risk Factor:
INCORRECT FOOD
What is dangerous? Fast food, too fatty foods, deficiency of vitamins cause the liver to produce more bile. The gallbladder and its ways are clogged with the remains of protein decay and cholesterol. Part of the bile through the blood spreads through the body, hitting all organs and systems. This is the development of cholelithiasis, pancreatitis, diabetes, stomach and cardiovascular diseases.
What to do? It is better not to wait until all the "hepatic" symptoms come to light, and to carry out a general cleaning in this important organ that carries out more than 70 vital functions. Just support your liver. This will help corn. Corn stigmas have cholagogue and hemostatic effect. Decoction, infusion and liquid extract from corn stigmas are prescribed for diseases of the liver and bile ducts, with cholecystitis, cholangitis, hepatitis. Or coriander, which has choleretic, analgesic, antiseptic and wound-healing effect. If you want to find a means of plant origin that will help the liver, it's easy.
Risk Factor:
DIET FOR SLIMMING
What is dangerous? By fasting or some particularly hard (and so popular now) diets, you can completely upset your body. This fasting promotes the rapid release of fat into the blood from the subcutaneous tissue, from where it is intensively captured by the liver cells. At the same time, the risk of developing liver inflammation is significantly increased. With all this, the hepatic cell membrane is damaged, which leads to disruption of its functioning and gradual death.
What to do? Ideally, abandon the voluntary torment of your own body and think not about how to lose a couple of kilograms, but how to eat properly. But if for the sake of an aspen waist you are still ready to sacrifice your health, remember at least the basic rules of "dieting." First, do not try to part with all excess weight at once. Optimal for liver health, the rate of weight loss is 0.5-1 kg per week. When choosing a diet, do not forget to consult a doctor. And, finally, by limiting yourself to food, protect the liver with hepatoprotectors. For example, with the help of "Essential Forte N" or any other natural preparation.
Risk Factor:
SEAT WORK WITH PRIVATE PEREKURS
What is dangerous? The liver as a natural filter is involved in the processes of self-purification of our body. However, nicotine makes the liver tissue more loose, and a sedentary lifestyle leads to bile stasis. So intoxication begins, the body poisons itself with the products of the decay of its vital activity.
What to do? In the risk group, all office workers. And if you radically change your occupation and stop sitting in front of your computer for eight to nine hours, it's still difficult, then get rid of the bad habit and quit smoking for everyone. Chorone would visit the gym several times a week, eat properly and undergo an annual examination of the body, paying special attention to the liver.
OPINION EXPERT: Olga Tkachenko, gastroenterologist of the clinic of modern medicine "EuroMedica".
Symptoms of liver diseases are often nonspecific. It can be a feeling of heaviness in the right side, bitterness in the mouth, nausea, skin rashes. However, most people do not even know what is happening to their liver, and they attribute these other manifestations to other, less serious causes - overtaxed, ate up, etc. Therefore, without a planned annual survey, you can not pay attention to the changes that are taking place. However, to know how to maintain your liver healthy and what to do or not do - it is just necessary. The only way out is to regularly take tests and monitor the condition of your liver. If you learned about liver disease, do not panic. It should be remembered that in the case of trauma or illness, when millions of hepatocytes die suddenly, liver cells within four months are able to regenerate three quarters of their volume.