Introduction: Among healthy individuals, those who overwork and have excessive liver heat are prone to liver disease. To protect the liver, it is essential to eliminate three major bad lifestyle habits: staying up late, skipping breakfast, and consuming seafood with beer.
Those who overwork
Because prolonged work states increase the blood demand for various body organs, consuming a great deal of vital energy. The liver is the organ responsible for storing blood in the body, and constant fatigue can damage it.
Those with excessive liver heat
People with a 'heaty' constitution often have 'excessive liver fire', like a barrel of gunpowder waiting to be ignited, and the liver suffers the most.
How to protect the liver
To protect the liver, one must eliminate three major bad lifestyle habits: staying up late, skipping breakfast, and consuming seafood with beer. These are the main culprits that induce fatty liver. Many people don't take fatty liver seriously, but experts have found that it is a significant contributing factor to liver fibrosis, cirrhosis, and even liver cancer.
According to Traditional Chinese Medicine theory, the liver and gallbladder are most active between 11 PM and 3 AM. The blood of all organs passes through the liver during this time, and its detoxification function reaches its peak. At this time, one should also follow nature and ensure sufficient rest. This is the principle behind the saying 'lying quietly allows the blood to return to the liver'.
Skipping breakfast and hastily eating lunch, while piling all the day's eating onto dinner, is inherently unbalanced and can easily lead to weight gain. Even with the same daily caloric intake, skipping breakfast can lead to malnutrition due to the high energy demands of daytime work. A high-calorie, high-protein, high-fat dinner, on the other hand, causes nutrients to be unused and accumulate over time, leading to fatty liver.
Some people like to drink beer when eating seafood. Many seafood items, such as sea fish, crab, and squid, are rich in triglycerides and cholesterol. These high-protein, high-calorie foods place a heavy burden on the liver, and alcohol is the number one cause of liver damage.