Hepatology experts believe that the modern living environment and lifestyle are very detrimental to liver health. Staying up late is a common occurrence, and working overtime, reading late into the night, all-night karaoke, etc., all affect emotional stability and calm, directly harming liver health. The top secret to liver care.
Clinical medicine has proven that, excluding genetic and infectious factors, most liver diseases are "stayed" into. Excessive workloads and study loads often lead to mental fatigue and physical exhaustion. Coupled with long-term lack of sleep or insufficient sleep, over time, the liver gradually develops problems.
Clinical observations have found that most patients with fatty liver also suffer from symptoms such as insomnia, emotional instability, fatigue, and lethargy. Therefore, for the treatment of fatty liver, especially severe fatty liver, the importance of sleep should be emphasized. Rest can reduce the body's energy consumption, and it can also reduce post-activity glycogen breakdown, protein breakdown, and lactic acid production, thereby reducing the physiological burden on the liver. Because bed rest can increase blood flow to the liver, allowing the liver to receive more blood, oxygen, and nutrients, promoting the recovery of liver cells.
According to observations by Japanese scholars, liver blood flow decreases by 40% when standing compared to lying down, and when standing with exercise, liver blood flow decreases by 80-85% compared to lying down. A reduction in liver blood flow can directly affect the liver's supply of nutrients and oxygen. However, overemphasizing bed rest and sleep for all liver disease patients can instead increase the patient's mental burden, affect the brain's regulatory function and coordination of visceral functions, and is also not conducive to the body's metabolism.
A study by the Guangdong Society of Hepatology showed that for people who sleep less than 4 hours per night, their immune system function decreases by 50%. In a study of 42 hepatitis B virus carriers who did not sleep between 3 AM and 7 AM, daytime examinations revealed that the activity of their immune cells was reduced by 31%. When these volunteer subjects got adequate sleep, their immunity was completely restored.
Good sleep is the best medicine for liver protection
Insufficient sleep affects the metabolic function of liver disease patients, and the nutrients needed by the whole body are insufficient. Good sleep can reduce nutrient consumption and is conducive to the recovery of liver disease.