How to protect liver health?

The liver is very important to the human body, and it is easy to cause liver disease if you do not pay attention to maintenance. Bad emotions in life and staying up late may cause damage to the liver. Therefore, in order to protect the liver, we should avoid depression, staying up late, obesity, alcoholism and taking drugs indiscriminately, so as not to damage the liver.

With the accelerated pace of modern life, bad habits such as staying up late and drinking are becoming more and more common, which will increase the tolerance of the liver and lead to various liver diseases. Therefore, it is necessary to develop good living habits, avoid some bad living habits and protect the liver. So, how to protect the liver?

First, avoid depression.

As far as Chinese medicine is concerned, emotion has a great relationship with the health of the liver. If you are in the symptoms of depression for a long time, or like to get angry, it will do great harm to your liver. Therefore, if you want to protect your liver, you must maintain a pleasant and comfortable mood and avoid negative emotions such as depression.

Second, avoid staying up late.

Adults should normally sleep for 7-8 hours, try to fall asleep before 23 o'clock at night, 1 enter a deep sleep state until 3 o'clock in the morning. This time period is the best time to nourish liver blood. If you stay up late at this time, it will have a great impact on the health of your liver. Therefore, a regular life and adequate sleep are very important, and you must avoid staying up late.

Third, avoid drinking.

Alcohol does great harm to the liver. If you drink a lot of alcohol for a long time, it will easily increase the burden on the liver and cause liver diseases, such as alcoholic hepatitis, cirrhosis and liver cancer. Therefore, people who usually drink regularly should try to give up drinking or drink as little as possible to protect their liver.

Fourth, avoid taking medicine indiscriminately.

The liver is the detoxification organ of the human body, and most drugs need to be metabolized through the liver. Taking some drugs for a long time can lead to drug-induced liver injury. Therefore, once sick, patients must avoid blindly taking medicine, and should actively seek the help of doctors and take medicine under the guidance of doctors.

Fifth, avoid obesity.

Compared with other people, obese people have a higher probability of liver disease. This is because the accumulation of fat in the liver will lead to fatty liver, even liver fibrosis in severe cases, and then develop into cirrhosis and liver cancer. Therefore, we should eat less greasy food and exercise actively to avoid obesity. Obese people should also actively lose weight to prevent the occurrence of liver disease.