We all read newspapers everyday and are very curious to know what is happening around us and all over the world.
But do you know what is happening within your body ?
Shouldn’t you be more curious to know about your body ?
We cannot take care of our body until how our body functions. In the following article we will discuss about Liver.
Functions of Liver:
1. Store
Liver stores the iron reserves you need, as well as a lot of vitamins and other minerals.
Without this, you wouldn’t have the strength to carry on.
Liver also stores energy, like a battery, by stockpiling sugar (carbohydrates, glucose and fat) until you need it.
Without this, the sugar level in your blood could fall dramatically and you’d go into a coma.
2. Create
Liver makes bile to help digest your food.
Without this, you’d waste away to nothing.
Liver manufactures new proteins that your body needs to stay healthy and grow.
Without this, you wouldn’t grow properly.
Liver makes clotting factors that stop the bleeding when you accidentally prick yourself.
Without this, you will bleed to death.
3. Process
Liver detoxifies poisonous chemicals you intake and that includes alcohol, beer, wine and drugs (prescribed and over-the-counter) as well as illegal substances.
Without this, your “bad” habits will kill you.
4. Purify
Liver removes poisons from the air, exhaust smoke and chemicals you breathe.
Without this, you’d be poisoned by pollutants.
5. Defend
Liver helps defend you against the germs going into your body all the time. Its takes those cold germs, flu bugs and other germs you encounter, and knock them dead – or at least weaken them.
Without this, you’d be a sitting duck for every infection known to man.
These are the functions of Liver. Now let us see how to protect it.
Precautions:
1. Watch what you drink!
Don’t drown your Liver in beer, alcohol or wine!
Even one drink is too much for some people and could scar the Liver for life. These scars are called “cirrhosis” and are permanent.
2. Watch those drugs!
All drugs are chemicals, and when you mix them up without a doctor’s advice you could create something poisonous that could damage the Liver badly.
Medicines are sometimes necessary. But taking pills when they aren’t necessary is a bad habit. All those chemicals can really hurt a liver.
3. Take care of what you Breathe !
Be careful with aerosol sprays. Remember, the Liver has to detoxify what you breathe in, too. So when you are cleaning with aerosol cleaners, make sure the room is ventilated, or wear a mask.
That goes double for bug sprays, mildew sprays, paint sprays and all those other chemical sprays you use. Be careful what you breathe.
4. Check what you touch !
Watch what gets on your skin! Those insecticides you put on trees and shrubs not only kill bugs they can get to Liver right through your skin and destroy the cells, too. Remember they’re all chemicals.
Cover your skin with gloves, long sleeves, a hat and mask every time insecticides are in the air or if you’re handling them.
5. Watch what you Eat !
Don’t eat too much fatty food! Liver makes the cholesterol your body needs, and it tries to make the right amount.
Eat a good, well balanced nourishing diet. If you eat the right stuff for Liver.
Warnings !!!
Liver can’t and won’t tell you it is in trouble until it is almost at the end of the rope… and yours
Remember: It is a non-complainer. Overloading it with drugs, alcohol and other junk can destroy it.
This may be the only warning you will ever get!
Check points !!!
1. Blood screening tests can identify some trouble in Liver.
2. If it is soft and smooth, that’s good. If it is hard and bumpy, that could mean trouble.
3. If your doctor suspects trouble, ULTRA SOUND and CT scans can look into it.
Your life, depends on how you treat your Liver and your Body!!!
Happy Living 🙂
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