Central Broadcasting Network Beijing March 18 news According to the China Voice of China Central Radio and Television “News Hyperlink” report, “The liver does not move.” Today, people will use this Internet catchphrase to express that they are tired, I can’t stand it anymore, I can’t do it anymore. It can be said that the importance of liver health has been realized to some extent. Even, many people have already eaten liver health care products.
The liver is an important part of the human body. It is closely related to the digestive function of the human body and is responsible for various tasks such as metabolism and detoxification. March 18 is National Liver Love Day. Pig liver, liver protection tablets, vitamins A and B… What should I eat to take care of the liver, and how should I eat it? Can liver protection tablets really protect the liver?
“Less is more”?
The liver is an important metabolism and detoxification organ in the human body. Wang Bangmao, director of the Gastroenterology Medical Center of Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, described it as a “chemical factory” that digests and absorbs, and metabolizes and decomposes.
He believes that the number one liver-damaging behavior is excessive drinking.
Long-term heavy drinking will not only lead to alcoholic steatohepatitis, but may also progress to alcoholic cirrhosis and even liver cancer. Therefore, some people take a “liver protection tablet” before and after drinking alcohol, hoping to protect the liver. However, “liver protection tablets” will not actually speed up the metabolism of alcohol in the body, and taking these “liver protection tablets” also requires the liver to metabolize them. Therefore, not only does this not protect the liver, it will actually increase burden on the liver.
Wang Bangmao pointed out that a normal liver does not need to protect the liver and does not need to “protect the liver”. “It is best to let the liver rest and not add extra and unnecessary burdens to it. It is wrong to think that the liver needs to be protected under normal conditions.”
Love the liver, protect the liver What should I eat to supplement?
The answer is, don’t eat it.
There should be some “minimalist” operations in protecting the liver – “less is more”.
Beware of Hepatotoxic Drugs
For liver protection, not only “liver protection” drugs and health care products should not be eaten indiscriminately, but also other drugs. Some medicines are liver toxic, and overdose or wrong administration may lead to abnormal liver function and even liver failure.
Wang Bangmao introduced that drug-induced liver injury may be related to the dose of drugs, and liver damage will occur when the dose is large enough; second, it is not related to the dose, but to the patient’s immune response or genes. Liver damage can also occur when a drug is taken in doses.
When drug-induced or drug-induced damage occurs to the liver, Wang Bangmao believes that the best way is to let the liver rest: “In clinical practice, one or two kinds of hepatoprotective drugs are really valuable. , It is rare to use three kinds of liver-protecting drugs at the same time, let alone more than three kinds of drugs at the same time. Each drug is metabolized in the liver even if it is a liver-protecting drug. When the liver is damaged, adding drugs to it will increase the burden on the liver. ”
What can we do to protect the liver?
Some nutrients are good for or necessary for the liver.
The official account of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention once published an article, “Protein can repair the liver, sugar is an important substance to protect the liver, B vitamins are the liver’s ‘gas station’, and the liver likes green food.” However, the intake required by a healthy human body is also limited, too much.
Wang Bangmao pointed out that excessive nutrition is also a factor of liver injury: “Especially, when people drink a lot of alcohol, eat a lot of high-fat food, eat a lot of carbohydrates, and they don’t exercise enough, the problem that the liver faces is Fatty liver. Over time, liver fibrosis, liver cirrhosis, and even cancer may occur.”
“It’s all for the good of the liver”, but we have done a lot of things that harm the liver.
You don’t need to eat this, and you don’t need to supplement that. With the attitude that you have to do something to love and protect your liver, someone picked up the “Detox Timetable for the Human Body”. From 11 am to 1 am, the liver needs to detoxify”…
In this regard, Wang Bangmao said that there is currently no clear statement that the liver needs to detoxify itself. “I think it is wrong to say that the liver needs to detoxify itself.”
In fact, there are many things we can do for liver health: balanced diet, regular work and rest, proper exercise, maintaining a standard weight; reducing alcohol consumption ; avoid taking hepatotoxic drugs; and, take care to prevent the spread of viral hepatitis.
Producer: Bai Zhonghua
Reporter: Liu Fei
Editor: Yang Yang, Ma Rusi