Protect Your Liver: Habits and Causes That Affect Liver Health

2023-09-18 04:33:12

The liver has a high ability to regenerate thanks to its structure, but this ability has certain limits.

In an interview with Gazeta.Ru, Russian liver disease specialist and nutrition expert Natalia Panina points out that the habits and causes that destroy the liver are:

1- Excess weight:
She says: “Obesity in itself is a cause of the development of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and tumors. The fats that are deposited in the liver cells lead to its damage, and in some cases to cirrhosis and the exacerbation of other diseases.”

2 – Medicines and nutritional supplements:
“Randomly taking nutritional supplements and vitamins, and drinking antibiotics, painkillers, oral contraceptives and even paracetamol in excess can cause toxic hepatitis.”

3- Alcoholic drinks:
“There are no doses of alcohol that are safe for the liver. A dose of more than 40 g of ethanol is dangerous for men, and more than 20 g is dangerous for women. Regular consumption of alcohol leads to alcoholic liver disease, which eventually causes cirrhosis.”

4 – Foods rich in animal fats and trans fats, which raise the level of “bad” cholesterol, lead to liver and cardiovascular diseases and increase the level of fructose, which contributes to the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

5- “Gut bacterial overgrowth” can cause hepatitis.
“This condition is exacerbated by the indiscriminate use of antibiotics, poor nutrition, and lack of fiber in the diet,” she says.

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