How to Care for Your Liver
If you want to know how to care for your liver, follow these simple steps and recommendations that we’ll see below. Check it out!
Everybody should know how to care for their lives since it’s one of the most important organs in the body. The liver is what detoxifies your body, as it acts as a filter. All of the substances that your intestine absorbs first pass through the liver in order to enter the bloodstream and clean out all the toxins.
If your liver doesn’t function how it’s supposed to, it can compromise your entire system. It can even cause you to suffer from bad breath, headaches, tiredness, bad digestion, stress, and a weak immune system.
The liver is a vital organ, and for this reason, you should take care of it and pay attention to all the signs that could indicate any type of disorder that can cause harm to it. We’re going to look at some ways to maintain your liver’s health.
Stick to a healthy diet
You must eat enough servings of fruits and vegetables every day. This is one very important way to care for your liver. Here are some of the fruits and vegetables that can clean your liver:
- Kiwis
- Grapes
- Cherries
- Artichokes
- Asparagus
- Radishes
You should avoid fried foods, frozen foods, or too much protein or carbohydrates.
Likewise, you should avoid drinking too much alcohol, because it can cause cirrhosis or liver cancer. Also, choose to drink pure water in place of soda. Water is known to purify the body.
Also read: 5 Delicious Smoothies For Your Detox Diet
Eat foods with antioxidants
Foods that have antioxidants help protect your cells from harmful free radicals, which are the substances that attack healthy cells and cause serious illnesses, including cancer. You should make sure to consume enough antioxidants in order to protect the health of your liver.
Among the foods that can give you antioxidants are:
- Blueberries
- Mulberries
- Apples
- Strawberries
- Nuts
- Hazelnuts
- Artichokes
- Beans
See: 8 Amazing Benefits of Blueberries
Be careful with over-the-counter medication
There are a lot of medications that can cause harm to the liver, among which are those that contain acetaminophen. Thus, you should avoid taking too many pills of these kinds of medicine so that you don’t cause any damage to your liver.
If you have liver damage from taking too much acetaminophen, you’ll first see symptoms such as nausea, loss of appetite, or vomiting. To avoid liver problems or liver failure, make sure you listen to your doctor’s recommendations in the dosages you take.
Also, be sure to not take more than one medicine at a time that contains acetaminophen. For example, don’t take cold medicine and Tylenol or Paracetamol at the same time. Doing this can increase your chance to harm your liver.
Protect your liver from physical damage
You should always be very careful if you practice any sort of extreme sport since if you receive an injury in the area where the liver is located. Impact on this area can be very dangerous and even cause permanent damage to your liver.
Natural remedies for your liver
The best way to treat and care for your liver is with natural medicine. If you drink tea, the best tea for caring for your liver, as well as the rest of your body, is green tea. Green tea contains many antioxidants that are beneficial for liver function.
Exercise
The final recommendation, although by no means the least important, is to do some sort of exercise. Doing any sort of physical exercise is very beneficial for the health of your whole body, but especially for the liver.
If you really want a healthy liver you should follow these tips and advice. All are very practical to do.
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