The liver is about three and a half pounds, it’s on the right side of your body and it has over 500 functions. It does everything from immune control, digestion, detoxification of chemicals, building up of proteins, and so many things. It’s an amazing and miraculous organ. it has 50.000 to 100.000 small little units of cells that help do the needed work. Your body could be functioning pretty good with only 90% of your liver destroyed or dysfunctional.
So a lot of times the liver will not show up until more than 90% of it is destroyed. Thus, without proper check-ups, you can’t always know if your liver is badly damaged until its too late..
Some of the symptoms of having some real bad liver issues are the following: when you get bloating, you have right shoulder pain, the whites of your eyes turn yellow, there’s a lot of skin issues, itching of the bottom of the feet and the palms of the hand, basketball-type belly. You can really predict the health of the liver by the person’s lifestyle habits.
There’s several stages of liver damage that can occur. One of them is inflammation.
Inflammation can arise from a virus but it also could be the cause of bad eating or alcohol. So every time you drink alcohol, it creates a trauma for your liver, kind of a whiplash, because you’re basically killing liver cells when you’re doing that.
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