3 habits that "poison" the liver that many people often do without knowing, in the long run liver cancer will "come knocking at the door"

Liver cancer and unhealthy habits are closely linked.

The liver is the body's largest metabolic and detoxification organ. The liver's main function is detoxification, helping the body excrete excess waste and toxins, maintaining physical health and physiological balance. In addition, the liver also stores and regulates blood, secretes bile and protein, and participates in intestinal motility and digestion.

The biggest difference between the liver and other organs is that the liver has a powerful regenerative and repair function. Even if half of your liver is cut off, your liver can still restore its original state with its own powerful regenerative ability.

But the advantages always come with disadvantages. The biggest disadvantage of the liver is that it has few sensory nerve endings. This means that many patients with liver disease have almost no pain response in the body even when they have serious liver diseases, such as liver cancer. This affects the time of early detection of liver cancer, delays the golden time for treatment, reduces the response to treatment, and has a poor prognosis. By the time it is discovered, the disease is often in the middle or late stages and cannot be cured.

Liver-damaging habits should be abandoned as soon as possible.

According to Sohu, these habits are likened to "poisoning" the liver, increasing the risk of liver cancer that you need to avoid:

1. Alcoholism

Having the habit of drinking alcohol, especially long-term alcoholism, will increase the risk of liver damage and alcoholic liver disease, hepatitis progressing to cirrhosis and liver cancer.

Alcoholic liver disease has different symptoms for each person, depending on the stage of liver damage. Mild alcoholic hepatitis may not cause any specific signs. When the damage is more extensive and severe, the patient may experience symptoms including: loss of appetite, loss of taste; frequent fatigue and weakness; nausea and vomiting; swelling of the legs and abdomen; low-grade fever that does not go away; easier bleeding or bruising; yellow eyes, yellow skin and changes in mental status such as confusion, coma.

2. Staying up late often

Staying up late seems to have become a normal part of young people's lives. Staying up late occasionally will not affect the liver, but staying up late regularly, especially between 1am and 3am, will increase the risk of liver disease.

According to Oriental medicine, the time from 1-3 am is considered the period when your liver detoxifies itself. If you do not let your body rest during this time, the detoxification function will not work effectively. Over time, waste and toxins accumulate in the liver more and more, increasing the burden on the liver and leading to liver damage, causing liver disease.

3. High-fat diet

A diet high in fat such as fatty animal meat, animal organs, fast food, fried foods, etc. containing trans fats and saturated fats will increase the risk of liver disease, especially if eaten regularly for a long time.

This is explained by the fact that cholesterol and fat in these foods increase the metabolic burden on the liver, increasing the risk of fatty liver disease due to excessive fat accumulation. Common symptoms of fatty liver include: yellow urine, dark urine; pale stools; frequent itching, hives; fatigue; jaundice, yellow eyes; nausea and vomiting; loss of appetite... Over time, if fatty liver is not improved, it can progress to cirrhosis leading to edema, bloating,...

Source: Sohu

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