Relevant data studies point out that the existing chronic liver disease patients in the mainland have reached nearly 400 million people in 2020, and this data is still being refreshed!
Many people are difficult to understand the emergence of chronic liver disease, after all, in our view, it is the most powerful organ in the body, its function is detoxification and metabolism, almost all the toxins in the human body are transformed in the liver.
Moreover, the compensatory power of liver cells is extremely strong, and it is the only organ with regenerative ability, why is it so fragile?
In fact, the liver is not false, but the liver cells themselves are very fragile, whether it is a viral infection, or unhealthy diet and habits in life, it may cause damage to liver cells. In the case of repeated damage to liver cells, liver disease will be induced, such as viral hepatitis, fatty liver, alcoholic liver, are common liver diseases.
If you don't want to find yourself with liver disease in the future, here are three misunderstandings that you need to try to avoid:
1. A small amount of alcohol does not hurt the liver
Many people mistakenly believe that only on the basis of long-term heavy alcoholism can the emergence of alcoholic liver disease occur. As everyone knows, even if you drink a small amount of alcohol, more than 95% of the alcohol will be quickly absorbed into the bloodstream and flow to the liver to begin biotransformation. As long as alcohol and liver cells come into contact, it can cause damage to cellular function.
At the same time, in the process of alcohol metabolism, it will also inhibit other biotransformation capabilities of the liver, especially the metabolism of fat, resulting in the emergence of fatty liver.
Even long-term small amounts of alcohol may develop into hepatitis, fibrosis, and cirrhosis in the future. And alcohol is originally a class of carcinogens, it can change the expression of cellular DNA, and patients may develop hepatocellular carcinoma in the later stages;
2, vegetarian is healthier
As we all know, long-term eating too greasy, overnutrition will lead to obesity, and obesity is closely related to fatty liver, and eating greasy food will also increase the burden of liver secretion of bile and metabolism of lipids.
Therefore, in order to maintain liver health, many people choose to over-diet and only eat vegetarian. As everyone knows, this dietary pattern will cause malnutrition, the liver can not take up fat to synthesize apolipoprotein, but will lead to a large number of triglycerides in the liver continue to accumulate, and eventually lead to the emergence of fatty liver.
Therefore, the dietary pattern that is really beneficial to the liver is never excessive dieting or vegetarianism, but maintaining nutritional balance on the basis of controlling the calories of three meals;
3. Eat health care products to protect the liver
In order to ensure that the liver is maintained in a healthy state and inhibit the development of diseases, some people will choose to blindly take some health care products or try Chinese herbal remedies. As everyone knows, health care products can never replace drugs, and it is completely different from drugs.
Moreover, some medicinal herbs seem to be able to play a role in health maintenance and treatment of diseases, but at the same time they also contain hepatotoxic substances, if blindly taken without medical advice, increasing the dosage of medicinal use, it may cause liver damage, and even lead to the sudden outbreak of drug-induced liver disease.
The above three points are common misunderstandings of liver protection, whether it is chronic liver disease patients or healthy people, we should avoid falling into these so-called liver protection misunderstandings.
Finally, we should remind everyone that in the early stage of chronic liver disease, it is often quiet, so people with a history of sexual life disorders, a history of long-term alcoholism, a family history of liver disease, etc., should be vigilant and regularly seek medical treatment for liver disease screening, so as not to appear diseases without knowing it.