How do men maintain liver health in winter? Middle aged men are at the 'cusp' of career and family. They are under great psychological pressure and mental depression, which is easy to cause symptoms such as liver depression, irritability, irritability, anxiety, loss of appetite and so on. How do men conserve their liver?
'brocade bag' 1: sleep liver protection
When sleeping, the human body is in the lying position, and the liver can enjoy more blood irrigation. In addition, the body is at rest, and the burden on the liver is the lightest. Therefore, high-quality sleep has a significant effect on protecting the liver. On the contrary, poor sleep quality, especially sleep disorder, is easy to involve liver function. Medical experts have noticed that a sleep disorder called sleep apnea syndrome can cause liver damage.
Syndrome refers to short-term apnea caused by glossopharyngeal stenosis and uvula blocking airway during sleep. In severe cases, apnea can last more than one and a half minutes. Medical data show that about 32% of patients with severe sleep apnea have abnormal liver function, and the damage of liver function is directly proportional to the severity of apnea. Further studies have found that this liver damage is related to hypoxia and insulin resistance caused by sleep apnea.
It is not difficult to understand that to improve the quality of sleep, the first thing is to actively treat sleep disorders, such as insomnia and sleep apnea syndrome. Secondly, don't engage in work that consumes too much brain power at night, and don't stay up late. Some people often stay up late and go to bed late are to blame for their poor liver. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that there are two most important hours of sleep in a day, one is noon (11 a.m. to 1 p.m.) and the other is midnight (11 p.m. to 1 a.m.). These four hours are also the time for bone marrow hematopoiesis. The most blood flows through the liver, which is conducive to the repair of liver function. In other words, you should take a good nap and sleep at night, especially sleep at night. You'd better go to bed before 10 p.m. to ensure that you sleep well around 11 p.m., so as to pave the way for the repair of liver function.
'brocade bag' 2: exercise protects the liver
Active physical exercise is another effective way to protect the liver, because exercise can not only reduce excessive weight, prevent obesity, eliminate the harm of too much fat to the liver, but also promote gas exchange, accelerate blood circulation and ensure that the liver can get more oxygen and nutrients.
From the perspective of liver protection, first, we should choose a good sports ground, and it is better to choose a place with a wide field, a wide field of vision and fresh air; Second, we should choose good exercise items, such as jogging, fast walking (about 110 ~ 120 steps per minute), cycling, going up and down stairs, climbing, playing badminton, kicking shuttlecock, playing leather ball, dancing, rope skipping, swimming, Taijiquan, etc. Once a day, lasting for 20 ~ 30 minutes each time, it is appropriate for the fatigue feeling to disappear within 10 ~ 20 minutes after exercise.
There are two main points of dietary liver protection: first, select food to provide sufficient nutrients to meet the physiological needs of the liver; Second, pay attention to food hygiene to prevent bacteria and viruses from invading the liver. How do middle-aged men maintain their liver?
'brocade bag' 3: take the initiative to rest
Middle aged men take the initiative to find time to rest every day, which is their greatest love for the liver. Rest can reduce physical exertion, reduce the decomposition of glycogen and protein and the production of lactic acid, so as to reduce the burden on the liver. Never wait until you feel tired to leave your work. This is called passive rest. At this time, the metabolic waste in your body - lactic acid and carbon dioxide have accumulated more, which has caused damage to the liver. Active rest, that is, rest before fatigue occurs. There is still less waste in the body. It can be completely removed after a short rest, which has the best protective effect on the liver.
Don't be a workaholic. Don't overwork, especially those with liver disease. The famous painter Chen Yifei, who died young two years ago, is a lesson that deserves the high vigilance of middle-aged men.
'brocade bag' 4: emotional liver protection
Regulate emotions, resolve bad emotions in your heart, and make yourself always have a good mood, which is beneficial to the health care of liver. If the mood fluctuates, it can make the hormone secretion in the body out of balance, lead to blood circulation disorders, affect the blood supply of the liver, and cause the death of hepatocytes due to ischemia. This is what traditional Chinese medicine calls' sadness of the spleen and anger of the liver '. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that among the seven emotions, anger is the most harmful to the liver. Anger can lead to abnormal drainage of the liver and stagnation of liver qi. Over time, it is easy to provoke liver disease.
The core of emotional liver protection is to learn to control anger. Even if you are angry, don't exceed 3 minutes. Try your best to be calm, optimistic, cheerful and carefree, so as to extinguish the liver fire, make the liver Qi grow normally, smoothly and maintain health.
'brocade bag' 5: guard against 'natural enemies'
The liver has many 'natural enemies', the first of which is hepatitis virus. In other words, hepatitis viruses are the primary enemy of liver health. They often drag patients into the death path of hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and liver cancer. At present, scientists have found six types of hepatitis viruses, including a, B, C, D, e and G, of which B, C and G are the most dangerous. The most effective means is vaccination, such as hepatitis A and hepatitis B vaccine. Taking hepatitis A as an example, nearly 100 million people have benefited from the application of the vaccine for nearly a decade, resulting in an average annual rate of 22% decline in the infection rate of hepatitis A. 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 inpatients. In the elderly group, the incidence rate is even higher. According to French reports, 43% of patients with 'acute hepatitis' over the age of 50 are caused by drugs. Such as aspirin, sulfa, penicillin and rifampicin are both commonly used and harmful to the liver. Even those seemingly safe drugs (such as nutritional drugs, tonics, etc.) can bury hidden dangers to the liver due to misuse or abuse. Therefore, do not use drugs casually, especially oral drugs. Almost 100% of them are treated by liver. Even nutritional drugs or tonics should also accept the guidance of doctors. Do not make your own decisions, so as not to increase the burden on the liver.
Alcohol again. Alcohol is a very strange molecule, which can be dissolved in both water and oil. Once it enters the human body, it will be like a fish in water, everywhere, and there is almost no place in the human body that it can't go. The first unlucky thing is the liver, because alcohol itself contains toxicity, which is enough to hurt the liver. Fatty liver is the earliest sign. It can be formed in just a few days, then lead to 'fibrosis', and then turn into alcoholic liver disease. Then the situation gets worse, and finally develop into irreversible' liver cirrhosis'. Countermeasures: healthy people should drink as little as possible, and mainly those with low alcohol content such as fruit wine; If you have liver disease, you should not drink.
In addition, a variety of harmful substances in cigarettes can reduce the detoxification function of hepatocytes, so it is better to give up strictly.