The liver is responsible for heavy detoxification, substance metabolism, bile secretion, immune defense, and regulation of blood volume. It is one of the most important organs of the human body, so the health of the liver is vital! However, due to the knowledge of liver protection Understand that many people have liver damage to varying degrees.
10 big wounded liver 'mine area', to hide!
In daily life, some unintentional behavior may also overload the liver. In the long run, it will inevitably damage the liver health. Therefore, we must avoid the following 'grain area'.
1. Drinking or alcoholic beverages
When it comes to wounded liver, the first thing we think of is drinking. When drinking, more than 95% of the alcohol is metabolized in the liver. Ethanol plus the metabolite acetaldehyde is the 'main killer' that causes damage to the liver.
The milder condition will damage the liver cells, causing the enzymes in the broken liver cells, such as alanine aminotransferase, to enter the bloodstream; severely, it will cause irreversible damage to the liver, which may lead to alcoholic liver fibrosis, cirrhosis, and even liver cancer. .
Therefore, no matter whether it is high-alcohol or low-alcohol, whether it is white wine, red wine or beer, it is not allowed to drink too much. The dietary guidelines of Chinese residents suggest that the amount of pure alcohol per day for men should not exceed 25 grams, and women should be less, otherwise May cause liver damage. Converted into a wine that everyone is familiar with, liquor is about 8 money, beer is about 1 can, whiskey is no more than 50ml.
2. Big fish and big meat every day
Some people have no meat, but the big fish and big meat may bring fatty liver. Experts say that eating too much high-fat food will increase the burden on the liver, the liver's intake of fat, increased synthesis, or translocation, utilization. Decreased, it will lead to accumulation of fat in the liver. Too much fat will damage the liver cells, gradually forming cirrhosis and even liver cancer.
3. Love to eat raw or half-lived fish and shrimp
Many people like to eat sashimi or fresh shrimp, but this is easy to cause liver fluke. Once the liver fluke enters the human body, it will parasitize in the liver's small bile duct. Patients may experience liver pain, bloating, diarrhea after infection. Such as discomfort, but the fact is that 70% of patients do not have obvious symptoms, and once developed into a chronic repetitive infection, cirrhosis may occur.
4. Eat damp nuts, food and other foods and products
After the family's melon seeds, peanuts and other nut snacks get wet, some people will be reluctant to throw away, but you may not know that these mildewed seeds and peanuts are extremely harmful to the liver, and may even lead to liver cancer. This is because of mildewed food. Will produce a very toxic substance - aflatoxin, which will cause damage to human liver tissue, long-term effects may also lead to liver cancer and even death.
Moreover, aflatoxin is difficult to remove, and the food contaminated by it, even if processed into vegetable oil, rice noodles, flour and other products, aflatoxin still exists.
5. Eat processed foods
Many people like to eat ham, bacon and other processed foods, but often eat such processed foods, the risk of liver injury is very high. Experts say that the preserved food contains nitrate, which can be reduced to nitrite under the action of intestinal flora. It can synthesize nitrosamines in the stomach and become a strong chemical carcinogen, which can lead to stomach cancer and liver cancer. Of course, it is not that such foods cannot be eaten, but they must not be eaten.
6. Take your own cold medicine, antibiotics, Chinese medicine
Many people like to buy some commonly used medicines and health care products. However, this behavior often hides the risk of drug-induced liver damage. This is because the liver, as the body's largest detoxification organ, is directly involved in the metabolism of drugs.
Many people think that only chronically ill patients who are taking drugs for a long time are at high risk of liver damage, but in fact, taking cold medicine, antipyretics, painkillers and antibiotics in their own lives may cause liver damage.
In addition, many people think that 'the Chinese medicine is mild, the side effects are small', so there is no scruples when taking Chinese medicine, but in fact many Chinese medicines will also damage the liver. According to statistics, at least 60 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines and their preparations are known to cause liver. Damage, and some Chinese medicines such as edamame, bitter almonds, may even directly cause liver damage.
Therefore, no matter whether it is Western medicine or Chinese medicine, you can't buy it, eat it, you can't blindly believe in the recipe, you must follow the doctor's advice when taking the medicine.
7. Lose weight too fast
Rapid weight loss is the dream of losing weight, but the cost of rapid weight loss may be liver damage.
If you take medicine to lose weight, diet pills, lipid-lowering drugs are more liver-toxic; if you only eat fruits and vegetables to lose weight, due to lack of enough protein, the liver can not carry fat, plus fat mobilization, fat is more likely to accumulate in the liver, forming fatty liver; People who usually have little or no exercise at all, suddenly doing a lot of exercise to lose weight, will cause transient liver damage; In addition, losing weight too fast can easily lead to metabolic disorders, which will bring progressive damage to the liver.
8. Smoking
Cigarette smoke contains about 60 known carcinogens. Cigarette inhalation in the human body can cause damage to liver tissue, leading to the evolution of inflammation and liver fibrosis. Not only smokers, secondhand smoke, but also three-handed smoke. Cause damage to the liver.
9. Stay up late
Chinese medicine believes that 11:00 to 2 am is the most prosperous time for liver and gallbladder. It is the best time to raise liver and blood, and it is also the time for liver detoxification. Liver detoxification needs to be carried out during sleep, so staying up late is very unfavorable to the liver. health.
10. Grumpy
Chinese medicine believes that the liver has a relief effect, like Shu Chang and depression. If the mood is depressed, it can cause liver qi stagnation, leading to unfavorable relief, and dysfunctional liver injury.
5 kinds of 'protective liver artifacts', want to eat!
Even if we are careful, some of the injured areas will still be inevitably stepped on. Fortunately, we have the 'protective artifact' of the liver.
Dandelion
Dandelion protects the liver, clears the liver and poisons, and has a significant effect on preventing liver damage, especially dandelion root. It is an important component in many health products for preventing hepatitis C.
2. Suzi oil
Eating the wrong oil is easy to form fatty liver, and eating the right oil, not only will not form fatty liver, but also prevent fatty liver, such as sage oil.
Suzi oil is rich in omega-3 fatty acids. It is different from the omega-6 fatty acids contained in corn oil and soybean oil that we eat daily. Omega-3 fatty acids can lower blood fat and prevent fatty liver. Therefore, Suzi oil has a good liver function.
3. Fresh vegetables and fruits
Fresh vegetables and fruits are rich in vitamin C. These foods help the liver to detoxify and have a good effect on protecting the liver and protecting the liver. Chinese medicine believes that 'blue color enters the liver', so green food is also nourishing the liver and nourishing the liver. Two choices.
4. Selenium-containing food
Patients with liver disease generally have low immune function and are prone to recurrent episodes. Selenium is a potent and effective immunomodulator, which can stimulate humoral immunity and cellular immune system, enhance immune system function, and help to improve various symptoms of liver disease patients.
5. Protein-rich foods
The protein in food is like the 'maintenance worker' of the liver, which can repair liver cells and promote the regeneration of liver cells. Therefore, eating more protein-rich foods is beneficial to liver health.