Regulate the mood, dissolve the bad mood in your heart, and keep yourself in a good mood, which is beneficial to the health care of the liver. If the mood fluctuates, it can make the hormone secretion in the body unbalanced, lead to blood circulation disorder, affect the blood supply of the liver, and make the liver cells die of ischemia. This is what Chinese medicine calls "the sorrow of the spleen and the anger of the liver". Chinese medicine believes that anger is the most unfavorable to the liver among the seven emotions. Anger will lead to abnormal drainage of the liver, leading to stagnation of liver qi, which will easily lead to liver disease over time.
The core of emotional liver protection is to learn to control anger. Even if you are angry, don't be angry for more than 3 minutes. Try to be calm, optimistic and carefree, so that the liver fire can be extinguished and the liver qi can grow normally, smoothly and permanently.
Dietary liver protection
There are two main points in protecting the liver by diet: one is to optimize food and 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.
Nutritionists tell us that five nutrients, such as protein, fat, carbohydrate, vitamins and mineral elements, are also necessary for the liver. However, the liver needs more protein, carbohydrates and vitamins, and too much fat may cause fatty liver, which must be properly restricted. To this end, it is recommended that you incorporate the following details into your daily diet:
Milk, eggs, fish, lean meat, bean products and other foods, arrange daily meal rotation to provide enough high-quality protein for the liver.
Appropriate consumption of glucose, sucrose, honey, fruit juice and other digestible monosaccharide and disaccharide foods, in order to increase the liver glycogen reserves.
Yeast is rich in B vitamins and should not be left out in the cold.
Hawthorn contains ursolic acid, which can reduce the deposition of animal fat on the blood vessel wall and prevent or alleviate arteriosclerosis to some extent. If you usually eat some fresh hawthorn, soak it in water with dried hawthorn, or stew it with hawthorn, it will be delicious and helpful for digestion.
Green tea can clear away heat and toxic materials, promote digestion and relieve boredom; Chrysanthemum calms the liver and improves eyesight; Roses soothe the liver and relieve depression. Drinking this kind of tea often is good for protecting the liver.
Lycium barbarum can nourish liver and kidney, nourish liver and improve eyesight, or make tea, stew soup and porridge.
Eating nuts such as walnuts and pistachios often can soothe the liver and regulate qi and relieve anxiety.
People with symptoms of liver-qi deficiency such as yellow complexion and poor sleep may wish to eat livestock liver 1 time per week in order to receive the effect of "nourishing liver with liver".
Avoid alcohol and all spicy food. Avoid fried and hard food.
Eliminate food pollution, including pesticide residues in vegetables, fruits and vegetables; Some food additives, such as flour whitening agents and preservatives; Smoked and roasted food and spoiled food, such as rotten ginger, red dumplings, long-sprouted potatoes, etc. Countermeasures: Try to buy vegetables with little or no pesticide pollution and wash them with clear water. Eat melons and peel them. Try to eat less or no food containing additives, such as canned food. Stay away from smoked and spoiled food.
Drink more boiled water. Keep the boiled water fresh, 3~4 times a day, each time 1 small bowl. Boiled water can increase the circulating blood volume and enhance the vitality of liver cells, which is beneficial to the elimination of metabolic waste, thus achieving the effect of protecting the liver.
Sleep protects the liver.
When sleeping, the human body is lying down, 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 plays a significant role in 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 the short-term cessation of breathing caused by the stenosis of glossopharyngeal tube and the obstruction of airway by uvula during sleep In severe cases, the apnea time can last for more than one and a half minutes. Medical data show that about 32% patients with severe sleep apnea have abnormal liver function, and the degree of liver function damage is directly proportional to the severity of apnea. Further research found that this kind of liver injury is related to hypoxia and insulin resistance caused by sleep apnea.
It is not difficult to understand that to improve the quality of sleep, we must first 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 stay up late because of their poor liver. According to Chinese medicine, the two most important periods in a person's day are sleep time, one is at noon (1 1 am to 1 pm) and the other is at noon (1/am to 1 am). These four hours are also the time for bone marrow hematopoiesis, and the most blood flows through the liver. In other words, you should take a good nap and sleep at night, especially at night. It is best to sleep before 10, and ensure that you fall asleep around 1 1, so as to pave the way for the repair of liver function.
Exercise protects the liver
Actively engaging in physical exercise is another effective way to protect the liver, because exercise can not only reduce overweight, prevent obesity and eliminate the harm of excessive fat to the liver, but also promote gas exchange, speed up blood circulation and ensure the liver to get more oxygen and nutrition.
From the point of view of protecting the liver, first, we must choose a good sports ground with a wide field, a wide field of vision and fresh air. Second, we should choose good exercise programs, such as jogging, brisk walking (about 1 10~ 120 steps per minute), cycling, climbing stairs, playing badminton, kicking shuttlecock, patting the ball, dancing, skipping rope and swimming. Every day 1 time, each time lasts for 20~30 minutes, and the fatigue should disappear within 10~20 minutes after exercise.
In addition, the exercise of protecting the liver is also beneficial by-
The first step is to rub the Dadun point. Sit cross-legged, barefoot, and press the Dutton point on the right foot (outside the root of the big toe) with the thumb of the left hand 15 times and the right hand 15 times. Then press the left foot Dadun point with your right hand, as before.
The second step is to press Taichong point. Sit cross-legged, press the left thumb on the right foot Taichong point (between the first and second phalanges of the instep), press along the gap between the seams, and slide back and forth for 20 times. Then press the left foot Dadun point with your right hand, as before.
The third step is to rub Sanyinjiao. Sit cross-legged. Press the right point of Sanyinjiao (3 inches above the tip of the medial malleolus and at the posterior edge of the tibia) with the thumb of the left hand 15 times and the right hand 15 times. Then press the left Sanyinjiao point with your right hand in the same way as above.
Step four, massage the ribs. Press your hands under your armpit and massage along the intercostal space until your hands touch your chest and return, and massage back and forth for 30 times.
: take the initiative to rest
Middle-aged men take the initiative to find time to rest every day, which is the greatest love for the liver. Rest can reduce physical exertion, the decomposition of glycogen and protein, and the production of lactic acid, thus reducing the burden on the liver. Don't wait until fatigue strikes before you want to leave. This is called passive rest. Metabolic wastes in the body at this time-lactic acid, carbon dioxide, etc. -Too much accumulation has done harm to the liver. Active rest, that is, rest before fatigue occurs, and the accumulated waste in the body is still very small, which can be completely removed with a little rest and has the best protective effect on the liver.
Don't be a workaholic, don't overwork, especially patients with liver disease. Chen Yifei, a famous painter who died young two years ago, is a warning to middle-aged men.
Beware of "natural enemies"
There are many natural enemies in the liver, and hepatitis virus is the first one. In other words, hepatitis viruses are the primary enemy of liver health, and they often drag patients into the death path of hepatitis-cirrhosis-liver cancer. At present, scientists have discovered six kinds of hepatitis viruses: A, B, C, D, E and G, among which B, C and G are the most dangerous. The most effective means is vaccination, such as hepatitis A and hepatitis B vaccine. Take hepatitis A as an example. After nearly ten years of vaccine application, nearly 654.38 billion people have benefited, resulting in an average annual decrease of 22% in the infection rate of this type of hepatitis. It is estimated that the disease will be eradicated in 20 years.
Followed by drugs. Survey data show that drug-induced liver damage accounts for about 10% of inpatients. In the elderly population, the incidence rate is higher. According to French reports, 43% of patients with "acute hepatitis" over 50 years old are caused by drugs. Such as aspirin, sulfanilamide, penicillin, rifampicin, etc. It is a commonly used drug harmful to the liver. Even those seemingly safe drugs (such as nutrition and health products, tonics, etc. ) will cause hidden dangers to the liver due to misuse or abuse. So don't take medicine casually, especially oral medicine, almost 100% is processed by the liver. Even if it is a nutritional medicine or tonic, you should accept the guidance of a doctor and don't make your own decisions, so as not to increase the burden on the liver.
Once again, alcohol. Alcohol is a very strange molecule, which can be dissolved in both water and oil. Once in the human body, it will be like a duck to water, everywhere. There is almost no place in the human body where it can't go. The first bad luck is the liver, because alcohol itself is toxic enough to harm the liver. Fatty liver is the earliest symptom, which can be formed after a few days of heavy drinking, and then it will lead to "fibrosis" and then alcoholic liver disease, and then the situation will get worse and worse, and eventually it will develop into irreversible "cirrhosis". Countermeasures: Healthy people should drink as little as possible and give priority to low alcohol content such as fruit wine; If you have liver disease, you shouldn't touch alcohol.
In addition, a variety of harmful substances in cigarettes will reduce the detoxification function of liver cells, so it is better to quit smoking strictly.