Your liver is a vital organ that performs many essential functions. It’s the largest solid organ in the body and is located under your rib cage on the upper right side. It weighs about three pounds and is shaped like a football that is flat on one side, with 2 lobes. Your liver processes everything you eat, drink, breathe, and absorb through your skin. It helps to manufacture hormones, proteins, and enzymes your body uses to function and fight off disease. It turns nutrients into energy your body can use and removes harmful substances from your blood, it is rightly called Energy House!
Eating a healthy diet helps the liver perform efficiently and effectively. Conversely, eating an unhealthy diet can lead to liver disease. For example, a person with unhealthy eating habits is at higher risk of being overweight and having fatty liver disease. Fatty liver, characterized by an excessive accumulation of fat inside liver cells, makes it more difficult for the liver to function and can eventually lead to scarring of the liver.
The liver breaks down alcohol so it can be eliminated from your body. Some of the by-products of this process are toxic chemicals that, in high concentration, trigger inflammation and injure liver cells. Drinking too much alcohol, either on a single occasion – known as binge drinking – or drinking a lot over time, can take a serious toll on your liver. Liver damage can lead to the build-up of fat in your liver (fatty liver), swelling or inflammation of your liver (alcoholic hepatitis), and/or severe scarring of your liver (cirrhosis).
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