Liver healing foods
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Am in need of dietary advice on healing my liver. I'm a bit confused by what I've read on foods to eat.
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mac58 bb123
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vickylou bb123
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Personally, you are best speaking to a doctor on what you should or can take.
RHGB bb123
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Your diet depends very much on the state of your liver and many other factors. What have you been diagnosed with and why (the reason).
The bet generic advice is, to avoid takeaways and ready boxed oven/microwave food. Make you food fresh at home. Eat a decent mix of protein, vegetable, fruit and some carbohydrates.
The liver creates and stores energy, not the stomach. If your liver is damaged it might have trouble producing and storing energy, which is why some suffer fatigue. For example, my dietician recommends that I have a snack just before bed, which goes against virtually all dietary advice, but is necessary to help my liver through the night.
It is fairly impossible without all your scans and reports to advise you of anything else. Being referred to a hospital dietician may be an option, but make sure it is an acute dietician, not an ordinary dietician.
mac58 RHGB
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That was very useful. I didn't know there were acute dietitians as opposed to ordinary ones!
gwen45436 RHGB
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Can I ask RHGB your thoughts on juicing for the liver. I juice Carrots, Celery, Apple and Cucumber with ginger which I know are liver healing foods. Would drinking this really depend on how your liver is? Say if it was advanced Fibrosis, would this concoction not be good in that situation?
No point in me asking my doc, her reply to everything is, first to look at me blankly and then say I don't really know.
Thanx.
RHGB gwen45436
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Juicing is an easy way of taking in nutrients, although it does strip a lot of the fibre out of them.
To be honest, there isn't much scientific evidence that shows that any particular fruit, vegetable or herb has any magic powers. Foods for the liver is a very complex subject. Very few understand it, including doctors, and even then there is much disagreement between the medical profession.
It really depends on what stage (if any) liver damage/disease is at. For a healthy person or basic fatty liver (alcoholic or non alcoholic) the best advice is to eat fresh and home prepared food. That means no takeaways and no boxed ready meals for the oven/microwave - yes, there will always be those times when you can't avoid something ready made, but they should be the exception not the norm. By avoiding takeaways/ready meals and preparing your own, you will be supplying your body with quality food that has all the vitamins and nutrients your body needs.
When you go further into cirrhosis, it then becomes a balancing act. You really need to up the proteins and fat, because the liver can't store energy so well, and if it has no energy stored, your body goes after the muscle energy stores and starts cannibalising itself. The flip side of metabolising meat is that it produces nitrogen/ammonia which can lead to increased hepatic encephalopathy.
It becomes complex and each person needs to be treated differently. But for someone like yourself, home prepared food with veg and fruit is the best advice. What I will add, is that fat is needed for the body to survive, we've been eating animal and dairy fat for millennia and that doesn't make us fat, it is the carbs that abound in all our food today, that is energy and turns to fat if we do not burn it off. Also, choline, found in eggs and other foods (Google it) is excellent for the liver. If you look it up, people can get fatty liver from just choline deficiency and whilst most articles refer to nafld, that is only because with afld, they only concentrate on restriction of alcohol.
It is shown to reduce/reverse fatty liver. Choline is shown to be important for liver function by avoiding fatty deposits and cognitive process.
gwen45436 RHGB
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Interestingly, I have just bought a liver supplement containing Choline after researching.
I seem to be on track with the eating.
Thank you for taking the time out to reply. Always appreciated and noted.
G.
mac58 RHGB
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