As other substances introduced in the general health tips earlier, such trace elements like selenium and zinc also help fighting liver health problems. They act as antioxidants preventing or lessening hazard effects or the influence of viruses on liver cells.
Phytogenous bioactive substances have also been used effectively in treatment of liver health problems. This is explained by presence in plants of such bioactive substances as alkaloids, glycosides, phenol compounds, essential oils, pigments, organic acids, etc.
Let’s consider, for instance, the way glycyrrhizin is used in treatment of liver health problems.
Glycyrrhizin is the main component of perennial herb licorice (or, Glycyrrhiza). For a long time the extract of this plant has been used in oriental medicine. The positive effect of glycyrrhizin consists in its influence on the main components which lead to hepatitis B and C. When these liver health problems take the form of viral aetiology, glycyrrhizin has direct antiviral effect that consists in blocking of the first phases of virus replication. Interferon production and interleukin activity is increased, as well as lymphocyte activity; anti-inflammatory effect is developed; the risk of the progressing form of cirrhosis is decreased. Being an antioxidant with antitoxic properties, glycyrrhizin is also effectively used in treatment of toxic liver health problems that are caused by toxic agents, taking drugs, or alcohol. Read the rest of this entry »
It is a common knowledge that vitamins benefit people’s health and liver, in particular. Consider the general health tips below and you will learn about the role of vitamins in human health and liver health care.
Vitamins C (ascorbic acid), E and N are the most useful ones for healthy liver. Being antioxidants, these vitamins also enhance antitoxic function and improve immunity.
Vitamin C is a strong water-soluble antioxidant that functions both in and out of cell. Being a great source of electrons, ascorbic acid can share electrons with free radicals, thus decreasing their reactivity. Vitamin C can also protect other antioxidant from oxidation (for instance, vitamin E). Antitoxic effect of vitamin C at different liver diseases consists in stimulation of different enzyme systems in human body and, first of all, in liver. These systems are responsible for detoxication.
Protecting immune system, vitamin C helps fighting infection by fostering antibodies’ activity and activity of immune system cells (lymphocytes and macrophages).
Vitamin E also benefits liver health. It hampers and inhibits peroxidation of lipids and polyunsaturated fat acids that constitute a part of cell membrane. Reacting with phospholipids of biological membranes, vitamin E affects liver cells structure sustaining integrity and stability of intracellular membranes and hepatocyte shells. Read the rest of this entry »
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: Read the rest of this entry »
The main acids and their derivatives that promote liver health are branched-chain amino acids like valine, leucine, isoleucine, arginine, ornithine, aspartate, S-adenosylmethionine.
There exist several ways to use branched-chain amino acids to promote liver health. When serious pathologic disorders happen, they damage hepatobiliary system and oxidation activity of the main energy sources decreases. This leads to a lack of the main substrates in the human body, as only 30-40 % of vital energy can oxidize by means of amino acids oxidation in other organs and tissues.
Meanwhile, protein catabolism increases and body weight with sick people decreases intensively. On the other hand, in the course of liver disease, concentration of aromatic amino acids in blood plasma increases which leads to various central nervous system diseases and portal systemic encephalopathy. Introduction of branched-chain amino acids removes imbalance, benefits those suffering from portal systemic encephalopathy and promotes liver health in general. Branched-chain amino acids can promote protein synthesis in muscles and liver, can reduce its catabolism thus decreasing negative nitrogen balance. Leucine is produced by Kupffer cells which proves direct influence of branched-chain amino acids on tissue cells.
Let’s consider some branched-chain amino acids that promote liver health. Read the rest of this entry »
Studying of problems related to liver health is of much social importance. Different diseases affecting liver health, like cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis, liver failure, malignant hepatoma, are among the most common causes of disability and death. On the assumption of this, a number of general health tips below will be concerned with liver health. In particular, I will consider different bioactive substances improving liver health, such as amino acids and their derivatives, vitamins, macro- and microelements, herbal bioactive substances, etc. Overall, I will conclude that being used in manufacture, food supplements or food stuffs of medical and prophylactic feed, bioactive substances are very effective in improving liver health.
Liver plays a leading role in the processes of transformation, accumulation, and synthesis of proteins, fats, bioactive substances, etc. Passing through bowels, foodstuffs enter liver wherein they undergo certain changes. Liver performs barrier and protective function by neutralizing toxins of different types. Keeping of the vital functions on a constant level and a neutralizing function are the most important and closely interconnected lines of liver activity. Pathological changes in liver functions and structure arising with liver diseases can lead to metabolic imbalance and abnormalities in immune system. Read the rest of this entry »
