The total number of patients with chronic liver disease in the mainland has reached nearly 400 million, the most high incidence of which is viral hepatitis, fatty liver disease and alcoholic liver disease. Do you think these diseases are bad luck for you? wrong!
In fact, the outbreak of chronic liver disease is precisely related to unhealthy lifestyles and eating styles. An unhealthy lifestyle causes persistent damage to the liver, eventually severely impaired liver cell function and outbreaks of chronic liver disease. For example, the following three bad habits are quietly destroying your liver, and it may be too late to stay away now:
1. Unhealthy eating habits
Fatty liver refers to the pathological changes caused by excessive fat accumulation in liver cells caused by various factors, and diet is the most risk factor for fatty liver in clinical view.
For example, obesity caused by long-term eating of high-fat, high-calorie, greasy foods, excessive dieting and weight loss, only vegetarianism, malnutrition caused by eating, etc., will affect the process of lipid metabolism in the liver, resulting in a large number of lipids deposited in the liver, and then develop into fatty liver.
Therefore, in the clinical view, if you want liver health, the first thing you have to do is to maintain scientific eating rules and food choices, try to be light and nutritionally balanced food collocation, and maintain a full state of 6-7 minutes per meal;
2. Long-term heavy alcoholism
Whether it is alcohol itself, or acetaldehyde produced during its metabolism, it has a direct toxic effect on liver cells, and they will disrupt the process of liver metabolism of fat and sugar, resulting in the emergence of alcoholic fatty liver.
At the same time, with the increasing amount of alcohol consumption, liver cells will gradually be damaged, necrotic, and then develop hepatitis, fibrosis, and cirrhosis.
Not only that, alcohol is also a class of carcinogens, it can change the expression of liver cells genes, long-term alcohol abuse can increase the likelihood of future liver cancer.
Nearly 10 to 20 percent of all alcoholics on the mainland have varying degrees of alcoholic liver disease. Among patients with liver cancer who develop cirrhosis in mainland China, alcoholic cirrhosis is one of the most important reasons;
3. Wrong medication
The liver is the body's metabolic and detoxification organs, and the drug itself or its metabolites also need to be metabolized in the liver. According to the information in clinical hands, among the drugs and health care products that we are exposed to in our daily life, there are more than 1,000 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines and Western medicines that may cause liver damage.
If you blindly use drugs, use folk remedies that have not been scientifically verified, and arbitrarily increase the dosage of medicine, you may cause liver damage. Liver damage caused by drugs is also clinically known as "drug-induced liver disease". In extremely severe cases, patients may develop drug-induced liver failure in a short period of time, which is life-threatening.
The above three bad habits are quietly stealing away your liver health, and even laying hidden dangers for the emergence of chronic liver disease in the future.
Therefore, everyone should pay more attention to bad habits in their daily lives, actively improve them, and maintain scientific and healthy living and eating habits.
In addition, if you have had similar bad habits and a family history of liver disease, while improving bad habits, you should also regularly seek medical treatment for relevant health screening to avoid liver disease without knowing it.