The liver will suffer if you do not sleep at 11 pm. The saying that “the human body has a detox schedule” has been spreading through the internet for a long time.
This makes many people who stay up late and have not fallen asleep after 11 o’clock vaguely worry about missing the “liver detox time” and something bad will happen to the body…
So is this statement true? What other common behaviors that will harm to liver?
Why are many liver cancers in advanced stages as soon as they are discovered? I will answer it in the following.
The liver is the human body’s biological processing plant and has important physiological functions, such as regulating the metabolism of sugar, protein and lipids, synthesizing bile, immune regulation, and the metabolism of poisons.
Therefore, not only at 11 o’clock in the evening, the liver is working all the time, and detoxification is just one of its many tasks.
Under normal circumstances, nutrients in food are absorbed by the intestines and then converge in the bloodstream to the liver. The liver converts the sugar, protein and fat in the food into glycogen, which is stored in the liver for energy consumption.
It’s time to go to bed at 11 o’clock in the evening. For the liver, it is also a relatively idle time for work. If you drink alcohol, eat too much, exercise vigorously or take drugs at this time, it will increase the workload of the liver. It may be fine in the short term, but time It is prone to secondary liver disease once it grows.
The liver has a strong compensatory function. Rest is very important for the recovery of liver function. In addition to staying up late, there are many behaviors that can damage the liver, such as drug abuse, alcohol abuse, and high-fat diet.
There are many drugs in the clinic, including prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs, health care products, etc., which can induce drug-induced liver injury.
Long-term alcoholism can cause alcoholic hepatitis, which will gradually develop into alcoholic liver cirrhosis.
The intake of a large amount of high-calorie and high-fat diet will also increase the burden of liver lipid metabolism, resulting in fatty liver, and in severe cases can also cause cirrhosis.
There are two main reason:
- I don’t know the high-risk factors of liver cancer. Common hepatitis virus infection, long-term alcohol intake, fatty liver and other high-risk groups of liver cancer do not know that they should be followed up and screened regularly, which leads to the continuous progress of liver cancer.
For example, the main cause of liver cancer is hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, but many patients with hepatitis B do not usually get tested, so they do not know that they are hepatitis B.
Even if I know it is hepatitis B, I don’t know that I should go for treatment and regular follow-up until it is discovered when it develops advanced liver cirrhosis or liver cancer.
2. Most patients with early liver cancer have no clinical symptoms, do not have too much discomfort, and symptoms are not specific. When symptoms such as ascites, jaundice, and bleeding appear, it usually means that the tumor has reached an advanced stage.
Reduce the cause of liver damage. E.g:
For hepatitis virus (itself an infectious disease), attention should be paid to contact protection;
Regarding drugs, medications should be reasonably regulated, and drugs should not be abused. For drugs with potential liver damage, liver function should be monitored regularly;
For metabolic liver diseases such as fatty liver, you should keep your diet and doing exercise;
For alcohol, alcoholism should be avoided.
Develop good living habits.
Maintain good habits of regular life, having healthy food and doing proper exercise, especially good sleep (rest when it is time to rest and don’t stay up late) and have meals on time.
3. Doing liver related physical examination regularly
For example, people who have been drinking, taking drugs or suffering from hepatitis for a long time should regularly check their liver function and liver B ultrasound, so as to achieve early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment of potential liver diseases.
To sum up, there is no “detoxification schedule” in the human body. It’s not just that the liver works at 11 pm every time. To protect the liver, we should avoid drinking, overeating and other behaviors that increase the burden on the liver, and conduct liver related examinations regularly.
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