Jan
03Phospholipids and Liver Health Care
Filed Under (What Does The Liver Do: Health Tips) by admin on 03-01-2009
Tagged Under : liver health, metabolism, phospholipids
In the general health tips below I will consider phospholipids and the way they are related to liver health care.
Phospholipids are the main lipidic constituents of cellular membrane. They perform a number of functions in a human body. The basic ones are structural function, the function of enzyme system stimulation, participation in molecular transport processes, cell division, cell maturing and differentiation. Effects of pathogenic factors (like toxic agents, viruses, free radical reactions) on mitochondrial and cytoplasmic membranes lead to misbalance in intracellular metabolism and cell ruin.
Phosphatidylcholine contains the greater part of all phospholipids that liver cells contain. Nowadays essential phospholipids are used for reconstruction of hepatic membrane. They are collected out of soys using refinement technology. At exogenous introduction, essential phospholipids become a part of membranes of damaged hepatocytes, increasing their fluidity and flexibility that contributes to activation of membrane dependent processes in liver metabolism. The main clinical effects of liver health care with the help of phospholipids are:
- Lowering of liver’s expenditure of energy level;
- Normalization of liver functions and ferment activity of hepatocytes;
- Reconstruction and retention of the organ’s structure and phospholipids dependent enzymatic system;
- Conversion of neutral fats and cholesterol into forms facilitating their metabolism;
- Stabilization of physicochemical properties of bile;
- Normalization of lipids and proteins exchange and liver’s detoxicative function;
- Retardation of connective tissue’s growth in liver in case of hepatocirrhosis progress.
Thus, the importance of the use of phospholipids in liver health care cannot be overestimated.
