What's the liver afraid of?

Editor's note: The March 18 of each year is "National love Liver Day", this year's theme is "Prevent hepatitis C, prevention." China is a "major liver disease", and the survey shows that 1 people in every 12 are suffering from liver disease. In recent years, we are suffering from fatty liver, alcoholic liver, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and even liver cancer, more and more people. In this lecture, I'll talk about how we can protect our liver.

The liver has 7 enemies.

Speaker: Harbin Medical University affiliated to the IV Hospital, vice President, Heilongjiang Province, vice chairman of Liver Disease Society Juli

March 11, 2015

Our liver is generally 3 kilograms heavy, big, function also big.

　　The liver has 6 major functions.

　　1. Manufacture and secretion of bile. The liver converts hemoglobin in haemoglobin into bilirubin in the daily aging red blood cells and secretes into bile. Daily about 600~1000 ml bile from the liver continues to secrete from the bile duct into the duodenum, to help fat digestion and fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, K absorption. Once bilirubin is not normally produced and excreted in the liver, it accumulates in the blood and jaundice occurs.

　　2. Metabolic function. we eat a lot of food every day, of which protein, fat, sugar and vitamins, must first go to the liver for chemical treatment, to become the body needs nutrients, and then for life activities needed. Without the hard work of the liver, hundreds of large and small organs in the human body would "starve to death".

　　3. Detoxification function. the liver is the body's main detoxification organs, it can protect the body from damage, so that poisons become non-toxic or large solubility of substances, with bile or urine discharged from the body, which is to maintain the vital function of life. Whether food, drugs, are inevitably "toxic", once the liver detoxification ability to decline, the consequences are unimaginable.

　　4. phagocytosis or Immune function. the liver is the largest defense system in the human body, which protects health by devouring, isolating, eliminating invasive and endogenous pathogens. The maintenance and improvement of any immune ability must depend on normal liver function.

　　5. Blood coagulation function. If you accidentally break your skin when shaving or chopping, the liver creates clotting factors that stop the bleeding. The liver is a place where many clotting substances are synthesized or produced.

　　6. Regulate the amount of blood circulation. Normal, the intrahepatic venous sinus can store a certain amount of blood, in the body blood loss, from the internal hepatic venous sinus discharge more blood, to compensate the peripheral circulation of the insufficiency of blood volume.

　　7 "Enemies" of the liver.

　　1. Excessive drinking. excessive drinking can reduce the ability of the liver to purify blood, resulting in increased toxins in the body and induce liver damage. In addition, alcoholism can easily lead to liver poisoning and induce hepatitis. Prolonged excessive drinking is prone to cirrhosis. Drinking a high concentration of more than two cups (25 ml) a day can hurt the liver.

　　2. Take medicine indiscriminately. Some people take medicine as long as they are unwell, and our liver is suffering from these drugs. There are a variety of drugs and their metabolites that cause liver damage, resulting in drug-induced hepatitis, including antibiotics, antipyretic analgesics, antipsychotic drugs and so on. Therefore, the medication must be strictly in accordance with the medical advice, under the guidance of the Doctor to take.

　　3. Lack of sleep. staying up late is the most likely cause of liver disease, sleep process, the body will enter the self-repair mode, often stay up late can lead to not sleep, body resistance decline, but also affect the liver at night self-repair.

　　4. Depression love anger. Chinese Medicine believes that anger wounds the liver, because the liver has a ascending through the function, the director of the full-body gas machine comfortable bar up. Anger is the gas machine stagnation, not the general ills of the beginning of life. Clinically, headache, dizziness, tinnitus, irritability, insomnia, trance and other symptoms are frequently seen. Anger will also directly damage the liver parenchyma, destroying the liver to store blood and regulate the amount of blood function.

　　5. Overeating. eating too much will increase gastrointestinal burden and induce fatty liver. Overeating is both detrimental to gastrointestinal health and can cause increased free radicals in the body. The key role of the liver is to help the body deal with free radicals, expel toxins and purify blood. The more free radicals in the body, the more severe the damage to the liver function.

　　6. Prefer fried food. studies have found that eating fried foods for one months can lead to significant changes in the liver. Moreover, the accumulation of fats and saturated fatty acids can lead to fatty liver.

　　7. Smoking. when the free radicals in tobacco too much into the human body, more than the body's ability to remove antioxidant free radicals, can lead to liver tissue oxidation-anti-oxidative system imbalance, causing oxidative stress occurs, so that the cell membrane lipid peroxidation, causing tissue damage, necrosis, cell proliferation, and even fibrosis, carcinogenesis.

There are four methods for nourishing liver and protecting liver. first of all, wine must be restricted. The male liver is able to withstand 40 grams of alcohol a day and women should halve it. Secondly, weight loss and fat reduction. obese people with fatty liver should pay attention to adjust diet, to low-fat diet is appropriate, and plant-based fats, and should limit the intake of cholesterol. Insist on a half-hour of moderate-intensity physical exercise every day. again, regular routines. "Night sleep clan" should try to adjust the rest time, it is best to fall asleep every 11 o'clock in the evening, to ensure that every night enough to sleep 7-8 hours, so that the liver effectively detoxification. Finally, keep a good mood and get rid of bad temper. keep an optimistic mood every day, and timely divert bad mood.

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