Liver disease

Alcohol destroys the body The liver is a vital complex organ with many functioning roles that keep the body in constant equilibrium. It holds a great role with digesting, absorbing, and transporting nutrients within the body. Liver disease is a serious matter that is faced in the United States and many other parts of the world. There are various ways that dietary nutrition can harm this much needed organ, but the culprit that will be discussed is alcohol. According to Blake J., Munoz K., & Volpe S. (2010), alcoholic liver disease kills more than 12,000 souls (sadly one was my sister) per year (p. 265). There are hundreds of different types of liver disease, but alcohol-related liver diseases (ARLD) will be the main focus. Alcoholic liver disease…

Alcohol-related liver disease or ARLD is a common health issue in the United States that can lead to further complications or premature death. The contraction of this disease is influenced or caused by genetics, the environment, or even social acceptability of alcohol use. Nutrition plays a vast role in the factors of ARLD because the liver is the focal site for alcohol metabolism. This can cause complications in the metabolism of other essential nutrients in the liver. A lot of alcoholics…

Introduction Many diseases morph silently into deadly conditions. One of those silent disease is nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) which is known to affect our liver. Liver has many important functions in our body among which some of them are detoxifying and purifying blood, production and secretion of bile, excretion of bilirubin, cholesterol, hormones, and drugs, metabolism of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates, enzyme activation, storage of glycogen, vitamins, and minerals and…

Correlation between Mast Cells & Liver Disease Introduction: Our guest speaker was Heather Francis PhD who works at both Baylor Scott and White and adjuncts at Texas A&M University. She is a research scientist who has dedicated her studies into the correlation between mast cells and liver diseases. Dr. Francis, along with her research team, has found a link between some hepatic pathologies: cancer and cirrhosis, and an increase in the number of mast cells. Paracrine Interaction: Dr. Francis…

Liver Disease Liver Failure is a disease in the liver often caused by other previous diseases, such as Hepatitis A, B, C, and D, but can also be caused by excessive alcohol consumption and other minor diseases. There are two forms of liver disease; chronic and acute. People with chronic liver failure experience their symptoms over a long period of time, and if not properly treated, can lead to Cirrhosis. Patients with acute liver disease, however, experience their symptoms over a much…

Scientists have discovered yet another reason to get off your chair. According to research, remaining sedentary for long periods of time can cause liver disease - so if you're reading this from your work station, now's the time to get up and move around. The Disease and the study Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease occurs when extra fat builds up in the liver, causing possible scarring, and in certain cases, liver failure. Published in the Journal of Hepatology , the study was done in North…

Obesity. Liver Disease. Diabetes. These are only three of the effect that sugar can have on the human body. Sugar can cause countless life threatening diseases, some more common than others. Sugar is something to be afraid of. The first example of something sugar can cause is liver diseases. Overloading the liver on sugar can progress to non-alcoholic liver disease or liver cancer. Secondly, if the pancreas is overworked by sugar intake, it could lead to a serious liver disease. Lastly, sugar…

in God. My dad´s not just my hero, but an American hero. When he was 18 years old he went to boot camp and joined the army. He remained very tough in the army, and always is telling me and my brother stories about some of the things they had to do like running 1 mile in 5 minutes. Which inspires me not to quit when I'm ever thinking about quitting. Although he never had to go into war thankfully, he was always ready and really is an american hero. He didn't know it yet but the strength from…

My mom soon has been getting calls from Alcohol Anonymous that her son hasn’t been attending the seminars and wanted to see if everything was all right. My mom was eager to look for me, while I arrived to a broken motel to indulge in my favorite type of potion that will help replenish the obsessions of this young woman. My liver couldn’t give anymore, and I passed out feeling this progressing feeling of pain and misery in my liver. I soon layed down on the floor, soon as I knew it I was in a…

Patients will need some type of treatment or a liver transplant, it just depends how cirrhosis has advanced in the liver for each person. Some people might take treatment or some might not because they refuse to or want to live longer. Treatment for cirrhosis is a liver transplant it just depends how affected is the liver to determine what is best for the person. They might also have a portion of their liver removed because the liver can grow back to its original size. The liver is large and it…