How to take care of your liver?

All of us are very well aware of the fact that liver is one of the most important organs of the human body. A human being simply cannot live without a liver thus it is common to term liver as engine of the human body.

Liver in a human body functions as a filter. It filters toxins of drugs and wastes from the blood. Liver also produces a chemical substance known as bile. Bile helps in absorbing the nutrients, helps in digesting the food we intake and it also stores the vitamins to give our body energy. If you cut yourself, liver also help in producing the blood clots to stop this bleeding.

If you do not take care of your diet and are not a healthy eater, drink alcohol, taking medication or a drug user, you actually are doing damage to your liver. But this is an amazing characteristic of the liver that it can repair itself once it has been damaged.

How to repair your liver?

• Now you know what is the function of the liver and how important it is. You also know how you can damage your liver. Now is the time for you to know how to get your liver repaired if it has been damaged by your non-healthy food and other activities.

• First of all eating healthy food is the key to recover the damage that has been done to your liver. Some key foods that can help liver damage recovery include Green Tea, Garlic, Grapefruit, Green vegetables, Olive oil, Lemons or lime and Turmeric spice. You can include these ingredients in your daily dietary plan to make a quick recovery of your liver.

• Second most important task for your liver damage recovery is to quit the usage of alcohol. If it is impossible or hard for you to totally quit usage of alcohol, then the best you can do is to reduce the usage of alcohol to a moderate level and keep yourself restricted to drinking on occasions only.

• Last but not the least you need to make sure you does not use any type of drugs. Drugs are very harmful for the liver and your liver has to work very hard to filter the toxic wastes from your blood. Try not to make your liver work very hard. Regular exercise and intake of vitamin supplements can also be helpful in improving the performance of your liver.

This post is written by Andrew Scott, who is an editor in local magazine. Research on chia seeds benefits is one of his milestones.