Modern medicine attaches greater importance to the relationship between the liver and health and even life. Medical experts regard the liver as the “chemical factory” in the human body, and the nutrients eaten at three meals must be metabolized by it and transformed into biologically active proteins, lipids and glycogen, which are needed by organs throughout the body. If there is a problem with the liver, it will affect the whole body and even threaten life. So, how exactly can you protect it? Here are six specific aspects of how to protect our liver: 1, let the diet to protect our liver diet to protect the liver has two major points: one is to choose the best food to provide sufficient nutrients to meet the physiological needs of the liver; two is to pay attention to food hygiene, to prevent bacteria, viruses invade the liver. The human body needs five major types of nutrients such as protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, which are also necessary for the liver. However, the liver needs more protein, carbohydrates and vitamins, while too much fat has the risk of causing fatty liver and must be properly limited. For this reason, it is recommended that you include the following details in your daily recipes: milk, eggs, fish, lean meat, soy products and other foods, and rotate your meals daily to provide adequate amounts of high-quality protein for the liver. Consume glucose, sucrose, honey, fruit juices and other easily digestible mono- and disaccharides as appropriate to increase liver glycogen reserves. Yeast is rich in B vitamins and should not be left out in the cold. Hawthorn contains ursolic acid, which can reduce the deposition of animal fat in the blood vessel wall and has a certain effect of preventing or reducing atherosclerosis. If you usually eat some fresh hawthorn, drink water with dried hawthorn, or add hawthorn to meat stew, it can not only season, but also help digestion. Green tea clears heat and detoxifies, eliminates food and grease; chrysanthemum calms the liver and brightens the eyes; rose soothes the liver and relieves depression. Drink this type of tea is beneficial to protect the liver. Chinese wolfberry nourishes the liver and kidneys, nourishes the liver and eyes, or make tea, or stew, or porridge can be. Often eat walnuts, pistachios and other nuts, to de-stress the liver and relieve anxiety. People who have a yellow face, poor sleep and other signs of liver deficiency may want to eat animal and poultry liver once a week to receive the effect of “nourishing the liver with the liver”. Avoid alcohol and all spicy and irritating foods. Avoid fried and dry foods. Remove food contamination, including pesticide residues in vegetables and fruits; certain food additives, such as flour whitening agents and preservatives; smoked food and spoiled food, such as rotten ginger, reddened lantern, long sprouted potatoes, etc. Countermeasures: Try to buy pesticide contamination light or no pesticide vegetables, and wash with more water. Eat fruits and vegetables with peeled skin. Try to eat less or no food containing additives, such as canned food. Stay away from smoked and spoiled food. Drink more plain water. White water should be kept fresh, 3-4 times a day, 1 small bowl each time. White water can increase the amount of circulating blood, enhance the vitality of liver cells, which is conducive to the elimination of metabolic waste and receive the effect of liver protection. 2, let sleep to protect our liver . When the body is in the prone position during sleep, the liver can enjoy more blood pouring, plus the body is at rest, the liver’s burden is the lightest, so the high quality of sleep to protect the liver effect is significant. Conversely, poor sleep quality, especially sleep disorders, can easily involve the liver function. Medical experts have noted that a sleep disorder called sleep apnea syndrome can cause liver damage. This syndrome is a brief cessation of breathing during sleep caused by narrowing of the linguopharynx and uvula blocking the airway, and in severe cases the apnea can last up to one and a half minutes or more. Medical data show that about 32% of people with severe sleep apnea have abnormal liver function and that liver damage is directly proportional to the severity of apnea. Further studies have found that this liver damage is associated with sleep apnea-induced hypoxia and insulin resistance. It is not difficult to understand that to improve sleep quality, the first item is to actively treat sleep disorders such as insomnia and sleep apnea syndrome. Secondly, do not engage in too much brain-draining work in the evening, and do not stay up late. Some people are blamed for their bad liver, often staying up late with late sleep. Chinese medicine believes that there are two most important hours in a day for people to sleep, one is the noon hour (11 a.m. to 1 p.m.), one is the son hour (11 p.m. to 1 a.m.), these four hours is also the time of bone marrow hematopoiesis, the most blood flowing through the liver, which is conducive to liver function repair. In other words, you need to grasp the nap and night sleep, especially night sleep, it is best to go to bed before 10 pm and ensure that you sleep well around 11 pm to prepare for the repair of liver function. 3, let exercise to protect our liver. Actively engage in physical exercise is another effective way to protect the liver, because exercise can not only cut excess weight, prevent obesity, eliminate excessive fat on the liver, but also promote gas exchange, speed up blood circulation, to ensure that the liver can get more oxygen and nutrients. From the point of view of liver protection, one should choose a good sports venue, with a wide field, open view, fresh air is better; two should choose a good exercise program, to exercise physical strength and endurance as the goal of the whole body low intensity dynamic exercise is good, such as jogging, fast walking (about 110-120 steps per minute), cycling, up and down the stairs, climbing, playing badminton, playing shuttlecock, patting the ball, dancing, jumping rope, swimming , playing Taijiquan, etc. Once a day, each time for 20-30 minutes, to exercise after the fatigue in 10-20 minutes disappeared as appropriate. 4, let the emotions to protect our liver . Regulate the mood, resolve the bad emotions in the heart, so that they always have a good mood, beneficial to the health care of the liver. If emotions fluctuate, the hormone secretion in the body can be out of balance, resulting in impaired blood circulation, affecting the blood supply to the liver, causing liver cells to die due to ischemia, which is what Chinese medicine calls “worry hurts the spleen, anger hurts the liver”. According to Chinese medicine, among the seven emotions, the most detrimental to the liver is anger, anger can lead to the liver’s drainage is not normal, resulting in liver qi stagnation, over time, easy to cause liver disease on the body. The core of emotional protection of the liver is to learn to control anger, even if angry do not exceed 3 minutes, try to achieve peace of mind, optimism, cheerful, worry-free, so that the liver fire extinguished, liver Qi normal growth, smooth and long to protect health. 5, let the active rest to protect our liver. Taking the initiative to find time to rest every day is the greatest love for the liver. Rest can reduce physical exertion, reduce the breakdown of glycogen and protein and the production of lactic acid, thus reducing the burden on the liver. Do not wait until the sense of fatigue to drop the work in hand, this is called passive rest, when the body’s metabolic waste – lactic acid, carbon dioxide, etc. has accumulated more, the liver has caused damage. The active rest, that is, rest before the sense of fatigue, the body’s accumulated waste is still small, a little rest can be completely removed, the best effect on the protection of the liver. Do not be a workaholic, not overworked, especially if the liver has been sick. The famous painter Chen Yifei, who died two years ago at an early age, is a lesson learned and deserves a high degree of vigilance from middle-aged men. 6, to prevent “natural enemies” away from liver disease. The liver has many “natural enemies”, the first push hepatitis virus. In other words, the hepatitis virus is the primary enemy of liver health, they often drag sufferers into hepatitis – cirrhosis – liver cancer of the road to death. Scientists have identified hepatitis A, B, C, D and E viruses, with B and C being the most dangerous. The most effective means is vaccination, such as hepatitis A and B vaccines. In the case of hepatitis A, for example, the vaccine has been used for nearly a decade, benefiting nearly 100 million people, resulting in an average annual decline of 22% in the infection rate of this type of hepatitis, and it is estimated that the disease can be eliminated in 20 years. The second is drugs. Survey data show that drug-induced liver damage accounts for about 10% of hospitalizations. In the elderly group, this prevalence is even higher. In France, 43% of patients over 50 years of age with “acute hepatitis” were reported to be caused by drugs. Drugs such as aspirin, sulfonamide, penicillin, and rifampin are all commonly used and harmful to the liver. Even those drugs that seem to be safe (such as nutritional drugs and supplements) can be misused or abused to lay hidden dangers for the liver. Therefore, do not use random medications, especially oral medications, which are almost 100% processed through the liver. Even if it is a nutritional drug or tonic, you should accept the guidance of your doctor and not take it into your own hands, so as not to increase the burden on your liver. Again, alcohol. Alcohol is a very strange molecule, can be dissolved in water, but also in oil, once entered the body will be like a fish to water, nowhere to, the human body almost no place where it can not go. The first bad luck is the liver, because alcohol itself contains toxicity, enough to harm the liver, fatty liver is the earliest signs, just a few days of drinking can be formed, then lead to “fibrosis”, and then become alcoholic liver disease, and then the situation is worse, and eventually developed to irreversible “cirrhosis of the liver The situation then gets worse and eventually progresses to irreversible “cirrhosis”. Countermeasures: healthy people drink as little as possible, and to fruit wine and other low alcohol content; has been suffering from liver disease should not drip alcohol. In addition, a variety of harmful substances in cigarettes can reduce the detoxification function of liver cells, so it is better to strictly abstain. When we establish the concept of health, with specific precautions, liver disease will be far away from us. Let each of us have a healthy liver.