World Liver Day 2022: Tips to Detoxify Your Liver and Make it Healthier
Overview
“A healthy liver is important for a healthy gut and a healthier life!”
Your liver, which weighs only around one kilogram, is a complex chemical factory that works 24 hours a day. It processes almost everything you consume, drink, or breathe in; in fact, the liver performs over 500 functions that are important to life.
Every day, the liver provides energy to the body, regulates hormones, fights infections and toxins, helps in blood clotting, and does a lot more. You can guess how important it is to keep your liver healthy, up, and running. This World Liver Day, 2022, let’s get to know more about liver health and generate awareness so that we can take better care of it for our healthier future.
Why Liver Health is Important?
For a healthy and long life, your liver performs many important functions of the body. Here are a few of them:
Produce important substances:
The liver produces bile and creates albumin continuously. Bile is required for digestion, while albumin is a blood protein that helps in carrying drugs, hormones and fatty acids throughout the body.
Processing of bilirubin:
The liver helps in the removal of bilirubin, a chemical present in bile. Jaundice can be caused by having a high volume of bilirubin in the body.
Helps to remove waste products:
When you consume a toxic substance, like medicines or alcohol, the liver helps to remove the toxins from the body.
Managing immune responses:
Specialized liver cells can identify and destroy harmful viruses, bacteria, and other organisms that enter the body.
Helps to maintain glucose:
The liver helps to supply glucose or sugar to the blood by converting glycogen to glucose when it is needed and removing it when gets excessive.
How to detoxify your liver?
Frequent fatigue, allergies, malnutrition, irregular digestion, poor appetite, heartburn and acid reflux are the indications of a damaged liver. Unhealthy habits like consuming junk foods and taking alcohol can make the liver overloaded. Detoxifying the liver can help to alleviate many of the problems faced by the body.
To maintain a healthy liver, follow a healthy lifestyle:
- Avoid alcohol and smoking
- Exercise daily can cleanse your liver
- Avoid processed foods
- Eat a healthy balanced diet
- Consult your doctor before starting any medication
- Maintain a healthy weight
- Prevent hepatitis to protect your liver
- Get vaccinated against hepatitis
Every adult must undergo an annual liver function blood test, which is especially important if you have additional risk factors.
With COVID-19, we've entered into unexplored territory. We know it can affect liver function and possibly cause liver damage. Even in those who have recovered from the normal respiratory symptoms, serious consequences have been recorded. It's unusual, but it does happen. So, it's important to get a liver screening check.
We at Medicover Hospitals, have the best team of liver specialists. All the doctors are highly trained and have extensive experience in hepatology.
From screening, imaging, and diagnosis to advanced medical treatment and complex transplantation surgery, our team has the medical expertise with cutting-edge technology and equipment to ensure the best clinical outcomes.
Healthy digestion comes with a healthy liver! Take care of it with healthy foods and healthy habits.
Regular Walks
Walking and light exercises are very helpful during pregnancy, unless your doctor says no to it. Walking is a perfect remedy to reduce vomiting as it is a safe exercise and aids digestion. Sitting in one position for a long-time trigger vomiting, so it is better to walk a little after your meals for faster and better digestion.
Seek medical help if you are suffering from severe and constant vomiting, as this may lead to dehydration if left untreated.
