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- #Fatty Liver
I will explain the very easy causes of fatty liver and how to get rid of it. Due to changes in dietary habits, as you get older, many people are concerned about having fatty liver. I will tell you about the reasons why fatty liver occurs and how to get rid of it, so please be sure to put it into practice.
Fatty Liver
Fatty liver is a disease that occurs when fat, especially neutral fat, accumulates in our liver. Generally, if more than 5% of the liver's weight is fat, it is diagnosed as fatty liver. Fatty liver does not have any particular symptoms. You may feel tired, have digestive disorders, or experience discomfort or pain in the upper right abdomen, but it is not characteristic.
Therefore, it is easy to overlook. The liver is mainly examined using ultrasound, and a normal liver shows a uniform color inside, but if fat is present, many white patterns are seen. It can be said to be almost similar to a ribeye steak with fat evenly distributed.
Even if you don't have hepatitis B or C, if your liver function tests are elevated, you may suspect fatty liver. When fat accumulates in the liver, inflammation occurs in the liver cells, and the liver cells are continuously damaged.
Alcoholic Fatty Liver
Fatty liver is broadly classified into alcoholic fatty liver and non-alcoholic fatty liver, and it is classified into fatty liver in people who drink alcohol and those who don't because alcohol easily causes fatty liver. It can be said that alcohol is that detrimental to liver health.
It is said that about 90% of people who have drunk alcohol for a long time develop fatty liver. You can consider it almost everyone. During the process of alcohol being broken down in the liver, the level of neutral fat increases, and this neutral fat has the property of accumulating well in the liver. So, fat is nicely embedded between healthy liver cells, resulting in a ribeye steak-like liver.
Alcoholic fatty liver is more greatly affected by frequent drinking than by binge drinking. Even if you binge drink, if you have a sufficient rest period, the liver has a strong ability to detoxify and regenerate itself, so recovery is easy. However, if you drink alcohol even a little every day, the liver does not have time to recover, making it easier to develop fatty liver.
Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver
In the past, most fatty liver patients were drinkers, but nowadays, even people who don't drink alcohol at all develop fatty liver. This is called non-alcoholic fatty liver. There are various causes, but obesity is the biggest one. Gaining weight means that fat accumulates in our body, and fat accumulates in the liver first.
In relation to obesity, excessive intake of carbohydrates is the biggest problem. Carbohydrates are nutrients that are converted into energy in our body. They are indispensable. However, if even a little bit remains, it turns into fat. That's why if you eat a lot of bread, cakes, and carbonated drinks, you develop fatty liver.
Risks of Fatty Liver
The reason why fatty liver is dangerous is that it causes inflammation in the liver. The liver has a very fast regeneration rate. Therefore, even if it is damaged to a certain extent, there are almost no symptoms. You might have heard of liver transplantation. Even if 2/3 of the liver is removed, it quickly grows back to its original size.
That's why there are no symptoms even if you drink for decades.
If inflammation occurs repeatedly and frequently in the liver, cirrhosis occurs before liver cancer. That's why it's scary. Similar to how a scar forms on the skin when it gets injured, it becomes bumpy or rough and hard.
This is called keloid skin, where skin cells disappear and fibrous tissue grows and clumps together. A similar situation occurs in the liver as well. Normal liver cells are destroyed by inflammation, and collagen fibers grow in the empty space.
As a result, the number of liver cells decreases, so liver function weakens, and because hard fibers increase, the liver hardens. This state is cirrhosis. If hepatitis and cirrhosis recur, it can progress to liver cancer.
How can we melt and eliminate the sticky fat stuck in the liver? In reality, there is no way to directly melt and eliminate fatty liver. Most methods are indirect. The first of these methods is to reduce the consumption of alcohol and sugary carbohydrates.
Second, exercise diligently. Usually, if you follow a diet for about two months and exercise diligently, the fatty liver levels decrease significantly. Third, increase bile secretion. The liver is a filter that processes oil waste generated in our body. If this oil waste is dissolved in bile and discharged into the small intestine, it has the effect of cleaning the liver.
Drinking alcohol immediately damages this bile secretion function. That's why toxins accumulate in the liver. For your reference, oil waste is processed in the liver, and water-soluble waste is processed in the kidneys.
There used to be a liver detoxification method, which involves extracting bile all at once. If you eat a lot of oil at once, bile automatically pours out. At that time, small gallstones are discharged along with gallbladder contraction.
Anatomically, the liver is located at the top of the entire gastrointestinal tract. So, blood from the heart goes through the gastrointestinal tract and all goes up to the liver. In reality, if liver function deteriorates, digestive disorders become severe. Even if there is no major problem with the stomach, if digestion is poor, there is a feeling of fullness and distension, in most cases, it is because hepatitis or fatty liver has developed.
Also, if liver function deteriorates severely due to cirrhosis, you experience severe diarrhea. This is because blood cannot enter the liver, so the intestines cannot absorb water and nutrients. Therefore, treating the liver is like treating the entire gastrointestinal tract. In many cases, the skin improved.
Herbal Remedies for Liver Treatment
To treat the liver, many people consume mugwort, parsley, Corbicula fluminea (marsh snail), Hovenia dulcis (oriental raisin tree), and such, but doctors at hospitals tell you not to eat them.
That's why many people are confused. In fact, when liver function is not normal, you should not eat anything excessively. This is because blood does not flow well to the liver.
So, if you enthusiastically eat various things, it can put a strain on the liver. Especially in the case of green juice, you end up eating a large amount of food that you would never normally eat all at once, so you can get sick.
Therefore, when following a diet to protect and treat the liver, you should always pay attention to the dosage. Also, you should avoid consuming too much of just one type of food.
The same goes for Injin mugwort (Injin mugwort).
Although it is the most potent herb with the effect of detoxifying the liver and protecting liver cells, if you consume it excessively at once, it can induce hepatitis.
Therefore, when you take Injin mugwort (Injin mugwort) with the aim of protecting the liver and treating fatty liver, it is good to take it with several other herbal medicines that protect the liver. One of them is Lycium chinense (Goji berry).
It is said that consuming Lycium chinense (Goji berry) for a long time allows you to withstand heat and cold well and live a long life. Lycium chinense (Goji berry) is rich in betaine, which inhibits the accumulation of fat in the liver, regenerates damaged liver cells, and prevents arteriosclerosis and hyperlipidemia. Also, it regulates the acidity of blood, activates white blood cells, and enhances immunity.
Cassia obtusifolia (cassia seed) is widely known as a nutritional supplement that is good for the eyes.
So, it's also good for liver health. According to Donguibogam (a Korean medical book), Cassia obtusifolia (cassia seed) has the effect of nourishing the liver's energy, treating floaters (muscae volitantes), etc., and has a Qinggan (cleansing liver) effect that normalizes liver function.
The emodin, an anthraquinone compound contained in Cassia obtusifolia (cassia seed), prevents liver inflammation.
Therefore, to prevent and treat fatty liver, it's very good to boil Injin mugwort (Injin mugwort), Lycium chinense (Goji berry), and Cassia obtusifolia (cassia seed) together and drink them as tea.
If you add a little ginger and jujube to this, a perfect liver detox tea is complete. Use a 1:1 ratio for all ingredients and make it as diluted as possible. Drink 1-2 times a day. If you have heartburn, you can reduce the amount of ginger.
In Conclusion
Keep in mind that exercise is absolutely essential for treating fatty liver, and that's all for how to get rid of fatty liver. Thank you.
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