POLOKWANE – “FATTY liver” is said to affect more than 2.1 billion people. The liver is the second most important organ in your body, after the brain. This is one of the reasons it is so important to your health and life.
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It performs an incredible 800+ functions, including:
• Eliminating toxins from the body, like environmental pollutants, food additives, dead cells, alcohol, etc.
• Producing bile, which helps carry away waste and break down fats.
• Storing and releasing glucose, for energy.
• Clearing the blood of harmful substances.
• Resisting infections and removing bacteria from the bloodstream.
• Clearing bilirubin (if there is a build-up of bilirubin, the skin and eyes turn yellow).
• And much more, including regulating glucose, blood pressure, blood sugar, insulin, oestrogen, testosterone, the immune system, and blood cholesterol production.
That means if your liver isn’t functioning at 100%, you have zero chance of being healthy. Fatty liver causes inflammation in the body and impairs the liver’s ability to carry out its 800 plus jobs.
The more the liver is impaired, the unhealthier you become and the more likely you are to contract a wide range of life-threatening diseases, like liver failure, heart attacks, stroke, diabetes, cancer, and much more. The simple truth is that we need to look after our livers, but we don’t. Especially with our modern diet, which is full of processed foods, chemicals, sugar and alcohol which makes obesity the no one reason in so many cases of “fatty liver”.
The liver starts to poison you. Instead of clearing out toxins, breaking down fats and assisting your metabolism, it stores fat, making it impossible to lose weight. Harmful substances are allowed to thrive and multiply. In short, the fatty liver is robbing you of your health. There is good news next week.
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