8 Ways to Protect Your Liver

The liver is your largest internal organ, which sits mainly in the upper right portion of your abdomen, and above your stomach. It plays a very important role in the body function, including removing waste products and foreign substances from the bloodstream, maintaining healthy blood sugar levels, regulating blood clotting, creating essential nutrients and also performing hundreds of other vital functions. Here are 8 ways to show you how to protect our dearest liver.

1. Maintain a healthy weight

Obesity is a very obvious trigger to affect our liver, which has a close relation with fatty liver. Once, especially in western countries, they have a favorable view of obesity, seeing it as a symbol of wealth and fertility. Nevertheless, in 2013, they classified obesity as a disease. If you are over weight, try to lose weight as soon as possible. Maintaining a healthy weight will be good way to help you protect liver and also improve other conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnoea, joint pains as well as adds years to life.

2. Eat a balanced diet

Nowadays, many people like to eat food at night. Or eating some food with high calories, high fat, high sugar almost has become a hot trend. Actually so many disease are caused by a bad eating habit. If you want to keep your liver healthy, you had better leave alone things that might cause trouble. Eating some beans, pulses, fish, eggs, meat and other protein, and a variety of fruit and vegetables every day will greatly improve your health.

3. Exercise regularly

Doing exercise regularly has become a very popular activity for people. You can see schools are paying more attention to student’s physical health. Elderly people can be seen dancing, walking or running in square almost everyday. And more and more young people are participating in physical training. The main reason is that people find exercise regularly strengthen their health. Based on some scientific research, exercise increases fatty acid oxidation, decreases fatty acid synthesis, and prevents mitochondrial and hepatocellular damage through a reduction of the release of damage-associated molecular patterns. In conclusion, physical exercise is a proven therapeutic strategy to improve fatty liver disease.

4. Avoid toxins

Liver is the centre of metabolism, when overwhelmed with toxins for a long time which will affect the metabolic processes in the body and create several health problems. The more accumulation of toxins, the severer damage affects liver’s functioning. As health experts said that those toxins would greatly break down fats and energy. Cutting down toxins naturally benefits in a big way, and can fasten metabolism of the body.

5. Use alcohol responsibly

Excessive alcohol, which makes the liver easily get clogged, causing inflammation of the liver, also known as alcohol Hepatitis. Further, the harmful thing, like alcohol, makes the liver work overtime to process them through your body. It is time to stop drinking too much alcohol and reduce the burden for your liver. Also some other bad things needed to be avoided, including refined carbohydrates, sugars, oils damaged by high heat and rancid oils.

6. Avoid the use of illicit drugs

Illicit drugs refer to highly addictive and illegal substances such as Heroin, Marijuana, and Meth. They are substances that either stimulate or inhibit the central nervous of people and are very harmful for your people’s health, highly possible to cause permanent damage to their life. Normally, prescribed drug may reduce this harmful function. In many cases, the liver is able to metabolize drugs and other toxins without significant damage to the organ itself. However, when persistent detoxifying demands are made of the hepatic system, drugs can cause significant, cumulative damage to the liver.

7. Avoid contaminated needles

Contaminated needles, also called used needles, are very serious issue in our daily life. It may cause a lot of infectious disease. Once someone has used a needle, viruses in their blood, such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C or HIV, may highly contaminate it. We can see many cases from TV or some medical material that some contaminated needles are used to inject illegal drugs. If you puncture your skin with a used needle, take the first aid immediately. And seek urgent medical advice as you may need treatment to reduce the risk of getting an infection.

8. Get vaccinated

Vaccines are an important way to prevent some diseases. When you get a vaccine, your immune system responds. Recently, we have vaccines for hepatitis A and hepatitis B, but no vaccine against the hepatitis C virus. However, we should actively get vaccines, if our body allows.