How to keep a healthy liver?
The liver is a very robust organ. Being the organ that detoxifies all toxins that enter our bodies, it regenerates at an incredible rate. Therefore, keeping it healthy is an easy task if you follow simple health tips including:
- Moderate your alcohol consumption. Alcohol is damaging to the liver, gastrointestinal tract, nervous system, and cardiovascular health. Keeping your alcohol consumption as low as possible ensures that no excess load is placed on the liver.
- Eat healthy meals and avoid excessive fatty and carbohydrate-rich food. Fat deposition in the liver is fatal to its cells in the long run.
- Never share needles or shaving razors. Hepatitis B, C, and D transmit by blood and can easily pass to you from a minor wound by a used razor.
- Avoid street food, especially from unhygienic places. Hepatitis A can easily transmit by flies or the unclean hands of chefs.
- Get vaccinated against Hepatitis B. Although the vaccine is widely available and highly effective, treating hepatitis B infection once it occurs is challenging and not always successful.
- Do not use medications except as instructed by your physician. Over-medicating can damage your liver and kidneys.