Liver Interesting Facts

Liver Interesting Facts

To live longer & healthy there are some important  facts about liver you must know.

1.Liver store the iron reserves you need,as well as vitamins and  other minerals.

   Without liver,you wouldn’t have  the strength to carry on ! 

2. Liver make bile to help digest your food.

   Without liver, you’d waste away to nothing !

3. Liver detoxify poisonous  chemicals when you eat that includes alcohol,beer,wine and drugs as well as illegal substances.

   Without liver your  “bad” habits would kill you !

4.Liver store energy, like a battery, by stockpiling sugar (carbohydrates, glucose and fat ) until you need it.

  Without liver ,the sugar level in your blood could fall   dramatically and you’d go  into  coma !

5.Liver manufacture new proteins that your body needs to stay healthy and grow.

  Without  liver ,you wouldn’t grow properly !

6.Liver  remove poisons from the air ,exhaust smoke and chemicals you breathe.

   Without liver, you’d be poisoned by pollutants  !

7.Liver help defend you against the germs going into your body all the time.Iiver take those cold,germs,flu bugs and  other germs you encounter, and knock them dead – or at least weaken them.

  Without liver, you’d be sitting duck for every infection known to man!

Avoid  beer ,alcohol or wine – one drink is too much for some people and could scar for life.

Avoid  unnecessary  drugs  since drugs are chemicals ,and when you mix them up without a doctor’s advice you could create something poisonous that could damage liver badly.

Symptoms of a diseased liver

• The external signs include a coated tongue, itchy skin, excessive sweating, offensive body odor, dark circles under the eyes, red swollen and itchy eyes, acne rosacea, brownish spots and blemishes on the skin, flushed facial appearance or excessive facial blood vessels.

• Other symptoms include jaundice, dark urine, pale stool, bone loss, easy bleeding, itching, small, spider-like blood vessels visible in the skin, enlarged spleen, fluid in the abdominal cavity, chills, pain from the biliary tract or pancreas, and an enlarged gallbladder.

• The symptoms related to liver dysfunction include both physical signs and a variety of symptoms related to digestive problems, blood sugar problems, immune disorders, abnormal absorption of fats, and metabolism problems.

• The malabsorption of fats may lead to symptoms that include indigestion, reflux, deficit of fatsoluble vitamins, hemorrhoids, gall stones, intolerance to fatty foods, intolerance to alcohol, nausea and vomiting attacks, abdominal bloating, and constipation.

• Nervous system disorders include depression, mood changes, especially anger and irritability, poor concentration and "foggy brain", overheating of the body, especially the face and torso, and recurrent headaches (including migraine) associated with nausea.

• The blood sugar problems include a craving for sugar, hypoglycaemia and unstable blood sugar levels, and the onset of type 2 diabetes.

Diseases

• Hepatitis(A-G), inflammation of the liver, caused mainly by various viruses but also by some poisons (e.g. alcohol), autoimmunity (autoimmune hepatitis) or hereditary conditions. Diagnosis is done by checking levels of Alanine transaminase
• Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a spectrum in disease, associated with obesity and characterized as an abundance of fat in the liver; may lead to a hepatitis, i.e.steatohepatitis and/or cirrhosis.
• Cirrhosis is the formation of fibrous tissue in the liver from replacing dead liver cells. The death of the liver cells can be caused by viral hepatitis, alcoholism or contact with other liver-toxic chemicals. Diagnosis is done by checking levels of Alanine transaminase and Asparatine transaminase (SGOT).
• Haemochromatosis, a hereditary disease causing the accumulation of iron in the body, eventually leading to liver damage.
• Cancer of the liver (primary hepatocellular carcinoma or cholangiocarcinoma and metastatic cancers, usually from other parts of the gastrointestinal tract).
• Wilson's disease, a hereditary disease which causes the body to retain copper.
• Primary sclerosing cholangitis, an inflammatory disease of the bile duct, likely autoimmune in nature.
• Primary biliary cirrhosis, autoimmune disease of small bile ducts.
• Budd-Chiari syndrome, obstruction of the hepatic vein.
• Gilbert's syndrome, a genetic disorder of bilirubin metabolism, found in about 5% of the population.
• Glycogen storage disease type II, the build-up of glycogen causes progressive muscle weakness (myopathy) throughout the body and affects various body tissues, particularly in the heart, skeletal muscles, liver and nervous system.