All those things you eat, drink, breath and absorb through the skin makes its way past your liver, a less than 5 pound vital organ nicely nestled just under your rib cage. And any disease of, or problems with, your liver can cause some serious complications to the rest of your body.
The liver’s key [...]
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Autoimmune Epidemic
Autoimmune diseases have known affects on numerous parts of the body, by more than 80 types of autoimmune diseases, and some having similar symptoms.
This twist can make diagnosis and treatment seem like “a bit of a shot in the dark”, not to mention a frustrating and stressful pin-down period for the sufferer.
Your body’s immune [...]
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Cirrhosis means scarring of a very important life-sustaining organ known as your liver, and this scar tissue forms in replacement of healthy tissue. Cirrhosis liver tissue doesn’t perform, it only blocks healthy tissue from doing the job of making protein, fighting infections, digesting food, cleaning your blood and storing energy.
Once your liver is scarred, nothing [...]
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Hepatitis means liver inflammation, and if you have viral hepatitis your liver inflammation is caused by a virus.
When a virus infects your liver, it swells up causing reduced functionality. Having a swollen liver is not a good thing since it plays a key role in digesting the food you eat, energy storage and poison removal.
You [...]
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When diagnosed with liver cancer, it may be the type that originated in your liver, primary. Or it may be the type that spread into your liver from somewhere else, metastatic.
The liver is your largest organ and it multi-tasks many vital functions:
vital role in removing toxic wastes
breaking down and storing many of the nutrients
secreting bile [...]
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Jaundice is caused by a build up of bilirubin. Your skin and whites of your eyes turn yellow when it builds up, having a yellowish appearance.
Bilirubin is a yellow chemical in the hemoglobin of your red blood cells. When they breakdown your liver processes them out of your body.
If your liver is not functioning [...]
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