Tag: Liver Health

Quitting alcohol consumption is the best favor you can do to yourself. It makes you fitter, gives you the impetus to work out, and helps you sleep better and wake up fresh. Overall health improves significantly when you quit drinking. No alcohol automatically means no snack, no binge eating, and no weight gain. Your appetite will improve significantly. You will also be able to focus and perform better every day.

Intrahepatic holestasis of pregnancy (ICP) causes bile flow to slow down and bile acids to move into your bloodstream. Since the bile acids may cross the placenta and reach your baby, if untreated, it can lead to complications like fetal distress, meconium passage, stillbirth, preterm birth, and maternal hemorrhaging. Symptoms include itching, dark urine, pale stools, and abdominal pain.

While we are running the race of our lives, we often tend to ignore what we eat and drink. This can tough to deal with...

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a health condition that can lead to chronic liver damage. As the name suggests, this disease occurs when...

Struggling with a bad breath? Have you felt socially handicapped due to bad breath that you are trying to get rid of? If yes,...

The color of your poop can tell a lot about your health condition. Orange stools are usually harmless and caused by a diet rich in beta-carotene foods or due to irregular liver function. Your poop can also turn red, black, yellow, or green due to certain health issues. Changes in your food habits and medications may cause the stool to return to the normal color.

Every mom is worried about their baby’s well being, especially during the first few days after childbirth. Even a slight change seen in their...

Each and every cell in your body produces toxins while performing different functions that are needed to keep you alive and functioning. Even the food...

Your body has an ability to regenerate and fix itself. Every year, about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced. Every few days, the cells lining your stomach and small intestine and renewed. Another interesting fact is that after a partial hepatectomy, your liver can grow back the lost liver tissue in less than a week! Also, when you're out of energy, your body will break down the least important body parts to generate the required energy.

The sticky, toxic nicotine and other chemicals from secondhand tobacco smoke cling to walls and ceilings, curtains, carpets, and other upholsteries. These can react with common indoor air pollutants like nitrous acid and ozone to form carcinogenic nitrosamines and ultrafine particulate matter that can cause brain, liver, and DNA damage, weaken your immunity, and increase one's risks of cancer. Children and hospitality workers are more susceptible to thirdhand smoke.

Makeup can help you fake perfect skin, but nothing can come close to having naturally flawless skin. More people today are beginning to realize...

Fatty liver disease, both non-alcoholic and alcoholic, doesn’t always cause symptoms. If so, abdominal discomfort may show up in the upper right abdomen. You might feel tired and weak, but this can be confusing if you have a busy lifestyle. Jaundice, or yellowing of the skin and whites of your eyes, may develop if the disease has worsened. Dark urine is also uncommon yet possible. The only way to know for sure is to get regular blood tests done.

If you have chronic hepatitis C, the goal of treatment is to clear out the virus until it’s undetectable. This is known as sustained virological response or SVR. You can achieve it by taking a cocktail of antiviral pills prescribed by the doctor. After treatment, if the viral load stays low enough for at least 12 weeks, you’re cured! Most importantly, the risk for liver damage will drop and you won’t be able to spread the virus to others.

The liver is a vital organ, and performs many crucial functions for the body. It isn’t just responsible for producing proteins, cholesterol and bile, it...

Breastfeeding is indeed a challenge for new moms. It becomes all the more difficult if your baby has a health problem. Even if he/she...