One cause of anxiety and depression many people are unaware of could stem from an unhealthy liver. Here's why.
Although most people know about obesity and diabetes, far fewer have heard about fatty liver disease, their close metabolic cousin. And almost no one realizes how closely their liver health is connected to their mental healthThe liver is a remarkable organ, both for its staggering contributions to our overall health and for its vast underappreciation by the general public .
The liver is the ultimate domestic engineer, working 24-7 to chemically neuter toxins in our blood before they infect our bodies. The organ functions as a nutritional warehouse for many essential vitamins and minerals and metabolizes medicines, alcohol, and other substances that would otherwise quickly jeopardize our existence.
The liver labors in these and many more roles in almost total obscurity, taking a relentless beating in the process of protecting us. Thankfully, the liver also just happens to be the organ equivalent of Wolverine—the fast-healing superhero mutant from the Marvel movies—in its ability to regenerate.But even the marvelous liver has limits.
The first signs of liver disease are sometimes recognized by physicians in the form of chronically elevated triglycerides, results on liver function tests such as alanine aminotransferase , or even by certain medical imaging procedures such as MRI and ultrasound. Caught early, fatty liver disease is treatable, frequently even reversible.When these signs are missed, however, liver fat levels slowly progress, spiraling from the initial stages of inflammation to fibrosis and even cirrhosis.
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