A quarter of the inhabitants of the earth have liver problems
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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The liver is not in vain called the main orderly of the body, because it is in full combat readiness and, like a biochemical laboratory, it removes toxins and neutralizes poisons, leaving only the substances necessary for normal metabolic processes in the blood.
If the liver is malfunctioning, then various diseases will not fail to encroach on a person's health. Therefore, it is important to protect the health of the liver and try not to overload it.
New Year's holidays - just the time when the toiler-liver works in full force. Just imagine how much work she has to do: alcohol, an abundance of fatty foods and sweets.
Last year, the British organization The British Liver Trust charity conducted research and found that 28% of people who passed the survey had the first signs of liver failure. And if you do not pay attention to it and continue to lead a sedentary lifestyle, there is unhealthy food that is full of fat and alcohol, then it can lead to irreversible damage to the liver and even death.
Among diseases that prematurely take the lives of people, liver diseases rank fifth.
Employees of the organization "The British Liver Trust charity" are urging the government to make the diagnosis of liver diseases accessible to all. Thus, they hope that it will be possible to save one million lives per year.
Also, employees of the charitable organization believe that physicians should conduct more extensive work and ask patients more questions about their lifestyle and habits, and also offer to pass a simple test that will help to identify the liver, as it is done for patients with high blood pressure.
The executive director of the fund, Andrew Langford, says that at the first signs of liver disease the situation can be corrected if one changes the way of life.
"Drinking alcohol every evening, fatty foods and irregular physical activity, or lack of it, are the main factors that affect liver health," Mr. Langford says.
According to Langford, in the past five years there has been a significant decrease in the age of people who die from liver disease. If now this age is 58 years, then by 2020 it will decrease to about 50 years.
Researchers say that many simply do not understand the consequences that an unhealthy lifestyle can lead to and do not connect it with cirrhosis and liver cancer. And many still believe in the myth that cirrhosis of the liver can provoke only excessive consumption of alcohol.
Often, signs of a malfunction in the liver are invisible, and when a person discovers a problem, it is too late.
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