If there are 5 changes in the body, it may be that the liver is 'calling for help', telling you: it is time to start protecting the liver

"Does the child belong to me alone? When you come home, you will lie down, don't cook, don't drag the floor, and don't care about the child's homework... Do you want to exhaust me to death?" Ah Hua yelled at her husband A Cheng .

Ever since the child was in elementary school, Ah Hua and Ah Cheng had never stopped arguing.

Due to the epidemic, neither parent can help take care of the children, so the task of picking up and dropping off the children falls to Ah Hua. After sending the children to school in the morning on weekdays, she has to rush to work, and it is herself to pick up the children after get off work.

When the husband came home, he spread his arms and lay on the sofa, neither helping with housework nor reading with the children.

This morning, Ah Cheng listened to his wife scolding, and was very irritable. He was about to go out when he heard the sound of broken glass from the kitchen. He walked over and found his wife lying unconscious on the ground . An ambulance was called to take his wife to the hospital.

After examination, it was found that the alpha-fetoprotein in Ahua's body exceeded twice the normal standard, and there was also a 2 cm lump in his abdomen, which was further diagnosed as liver cancer . Ah Hua was very shocked when he learned about it. He had never smoked or drank alcohol, and he had no physical discomfort on weekdays, so why did he suddenly become seriously ill.

1. Is most liver disease caused by "qi"?

When people get angry, they often say that "Qi hurts the liver". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "the liver governs blood storage, governs catharsis, and regulates the mind. The liver likes to be comfortable and hates depression." If the liver disease is unstable and the liver is stagnant, it will easily appear Anger, irritability and other emotions.

Does liver disease really have something to do with anger?

Studies have found that people who often lose their temper are eight times more likely to suffer from liver disease than ordinary people. Frequent emotional turmoil can lead to symptoms of stagnation of liver qi, causing damage to liver tissue, thereby affecting liver health.

In addition, people who are often angry and irritable belong to Type C personality, that is, cancer personality. Surveys have found that 40%-80% of cancer patients have Type C behavioral characteristics .

People with this type of personality are mainly manifested as over-repressed emotions, negativity, over-thinking, more adverse factors in the body than ordinary people, and the probability of developing tumors is three times higher than other groups of people .

At the same time, when a person is angry, the body will secrete a substance called "catecholamine", which can act on the central nervous system, affect blood sugar levels, promote the decomposition of fatty acids, and promote the increase of toxins in the blood and liver cells.

It can be seen that "anger hurts the liver" has a certain truth.

2. If there are 5 changes in the body, it may be that the liver is "calling for help"

The liver has a forbearing personality, and it does not make a sound about minor illnesses and pains on weekdays, and it is not easy to detect problems. But in fact, through some changes in the body, we can still trace the clues of liver abnormalities.

1. Edema appears

When the liver cells are damaged, the blood circulation of the liver is affected, the venous pressure level increases, and the body fluid will accumulate in the abdomen and legs, forming the phenomenon of fluid retention and edema , and the person will look "swollen" and feel tired when walking sense.

2. Darker urine

In the case of insufficient drinking water, the color of a person's urine will become darker. However, if the amount of drinking water is normal, but the color of the urine is still brown or dark yellow , it is necessary to be alert to whether it is caused by liver disease.

Bilirubin will be excreted with urine. When liver cells are damaged, the concentration of bilirubin will increase, and frequent metabolism will cause the color of urine to change.

3. Dark skin

Skin changes are also one of the symptoms of liver damage. The liver is the largest blood storage organ in the human body. When there is a problem with the liver, it will affect the efficiency of blood circulation in the body.

The facial skin, as the place with the most dense capillaries, lacks blood nourishment and clogged blood clots, resulting in a dark, dry and sickly face .

4. Yellow eyes and skin

The liver is responsible for secreting bilirubin and biliverdin. When these pigments cannot flow out through normal channels, they will be mixed into the blood and transferred to various parts of the body. At this time, the whites of the eyes will turn yellow, and the skin color will also turn yellow .

5. Red moles appear

The appearance of red moles is likely to be related to hepatitis or even liver cancer. This kind of red nevus, also called spider nevus, is composed of central arterioles and radial thin-walled blood vessels. It is a special telangiectasia.

When the ability of the liver to inactivate estrogen is weakened and the estrogen content surges, it will lead to the appearance of "spider nevus".

3. Don’t do 4 liver-damaging things every day, and the liver will be healthy

"Little liver" is an important organ of the human body. Although it is very "capable", it is also very "delicate". Especially these behaviors, if you touch them frequently, the liver will "lose its temper".

• excessive drinking

After drinking, 95% of the alcohol in the body needs to be metabolized by the liver. Excessive drinking can reduce the ability of the liver to purify the blood , and it can also lead to increased toxins in the body, which can induce liver damage.

• eat processed food

Processed food tastes good, but in order to meet sensory needs and transportation requirements, a variety of food additives are often added.

Of course, it does not mean that food additives are "poison". Most food additives will be metabolized by the liver, but if you eat too much, the burden on the liver will also increase, and it is easy to induce liver damage .

• eating moldy food

Improperly stored peanuts, soybeans, rice, noodles, etc. are easily contaminated by aflatoxin . Aflatoxin is a highly toxic substance that has been identified as a first-class carcinogen and has a strong effect on liver tissue. destructive effect.

• drug abuse

With the improvement of health awareness, many people begin to pay attention to health preservation. However, some people take medicines as health products, and they take medicines to prevent diseases when they are obviously free from diseases.

It is important to know that the liver is the main metabolic site of drugs, and the combined use of multiple drugs can easily cause liver damage during the metabolic process .

It is actually not difficult to protect the liver. Pay attention to the reasonable combination of three meals a day, balanced nutrition, control fat intake, drink less alcohol, use drugs with caution, and maintain a certain amount of exercise every day. When the body needs it, selenium can be supplemented appropriately, which is more conducive to liver protection.

References:

[1] "Love to get angry "offends" several major organs, 3 meridians control bad temper". Life Times. 2020-09-17

[2] "A 35-year-old man with "spider moles" is already in the late stage of liver cancer. Be alert to these 15 cancer signals." Digestive Liver Disease Channel in the Medical World. 2020-12-28

[3] "Attention! These 6 Bad Habits Are Quietly Ruining Your Liver". Popular Science China. 2022-10-18

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