When it comes to the liver, the first thing that comes to mind is its metabolic and detoxification functions.
As we all know, the biotransformation mechanism of the liver is quite complex, and its scope includes digestion and absorption, nutrient synthesis and storage, endocrinology and other aspects.
There are a large number of studies that have clearly pointed out that the liver is the central organ of lipid metabolism in the human body.
It is precisely because of this that with the change of diet and living habits of Chinese residents in recent years, the incidence of liver disease is also increasing year by year, of which the second place, second only to viral hepatitis is "fatty liver".
The so-called fatty liver refers to the lesions that are affected by various factors and cause excessive fat to accumulate in liver cells, which belongs to one of the pathological changes of the liver.
Mild to moderate fatty liver may seem to have no symptoms, but that doesn't mean it's harmless. If patients do not actively carry out treatment, they may develop problems such as severe fatty liver disease and cirrhosis in the future.
Moreover, people with fatty liver diseases are relatively likely to have high blood pressure and metabolic diseases in the future, so it is necessary to actively prevent and treat them.
So the question is, what should be done to cut off the possibility of fatty liver?
1. Light diet: The liver is an organ that metabolizes lipids, and the fat in the liver mainly comes from food and peripheral adipose tissue. In other words, whether the food choice is healthy or not is directly related to liver health.
Therefore, everyone should pay attention to a balanced diet in daily life, minimize the intake of high-fat, high-calorie, high-sugar and other foods, and at the same time avoid bad habits such as irregular meals and overeating, and maintain the regularity and stability of three meals;
2, do not absolutely vegetarian: many people will fall into this dietary misunderstanding, thinking that a light diet is absolutely vegetarian, a bite of meat can not eat.
As everyone knows, the nutrients contained in each food are very single, and long-term vegetarian diet means insufficient protein intake and malnutrition, which is also an important factor in promoting fatty liver.
Because the liver is unable to synthesize apolipoprotein normally in the absence of protein, a large number of triglycerides accumulate in the liver, eventually forming a fatty liver.
Therefore, a healthy diet is not an absolute vegetarian diet, in fact, on the basis of balanced nutrition, meat and vegetarian collocation is reasonable;
3, exercise can not be less: for the prevention and treatment of fatty liver, the benefits of exercise are mainly three:
The first is to consume a large amount of fat in the body through exercise to avoid excessive accumulation of lipids.
Second, exercise can promote the body's metabolism, so that the operation speed of the liver is accelerated, which is conducive to strong liver function.
Third, exercise is conducive to weight control, to know that obesity is the most risk factor for promoting fatty liver, so weight loss undoubtedly means that they are one step further away from fatty liver;
4, abstinence from alcohol: fatty liver is clinically divided into two categories, the first is non-alcoholic fatty liver, its appearance age, gender, unhealthy lifestyle, eating habits and so on.
The second is alcoholic fatty liver, and the root cause of the disease is alcoholism. Nearly 75% of long-term alcoholics undergo liver biopsies with fat entry.
After the average daily alcohol consumption exceeds 80 to 160 grams, the chance of developing alcoholic fatty liver disease in the future will increase by 5-25 times;
5. Rational use of drugs: A large number of surveys have shown that after entering the human body, some drugs may promote fatty liver by inhibiting protein synthesis, such as common tetracycline drugs, adrenocorticoids, purinemycin, etc., which will increase the prevalence of fatty liver.
In addition, lipid-lowering drugs can also form fatty livers by interfering with protein metabolism.
Therefore, daily medication needs to be cautious, patients should be rationally used under the establishment of doctors, and when there is a risk of liver damage, it is also necessary to regularly screen the liver for health.
Finally, we should remind everyone that fatty liver is a reversible disease, especially mild to moderate fatty liver, and even does not require medication.
Therefore, if you have problems such as obesity and alcoholism, you need to seek medical attention for liver health screening in time. Once diagnosed with fatty liver, it should be adjusted from life to avoid the severity of the disease.