In the disillusioning aftermath of the festivities, the Americans say that they have heartache … the English that their stomachs are upside down and the French that they are suffering from a liver attack. Doctors rather speak of indigestion
The so-called “liver crisis” of the French is a matter that has nothing to do with the heart but rather concerns the entire mechanism of digestion, therefore the liver and the stomach. But it is true that, when everything is bad, we like to find a culprit. So, in France, after the star foie gras, it is the liver itself that takes responsibility for the discomfort.
The prince of the body
A real injustice because, the one that the doctors nickname the “prince of the organism”, is able to withstand the worst torments without complaint. Schematically the liver destroyed at 80%, continues to provide almost all of its work. But, 81% ill, it is inexorable death in the absence of a transplant. This shadow worker has an amazing property: he is able to regenerate himself. If we transplant a portion, a quarter for example, a few months later, it is on a whole liver that we can count. Rather good news in a country where precisely, one does not spare his liver. Because this organ, the largest in our body, if not the heaviest (the heaviest is the skin and not the brain), is a real chemical factory, which guarantees the functioning of all the other organs. . Hence the verdict of death when it no longer works.
Wastewater treatment plant
Who says “factory” first means treatment of particularly toxic waste. This is why in the event of drug or food poisoning, it is first of all the liver which “clinks”. Toasting is also the right word because its main enemy is alcohol, which destroys liver cells slowly, certainly, but effectively, leading to a disease that has long been part of our medical heritage: cirrhosis. In this disease the destroyed cells are replaced by a fibrous material; Those who remain try to regenerate themselves but do not have the strength to do so other than in an anarchic and ineffective way.
Central stock
The liver is also a high place of storage of essential elements such as sugar, iron or mineral salts. Storage in the liver … it is in the extreme what is called, in duck or goose, fatty liver, which is nothing other than another form of cirrhosis caused artificially in the animal by force-feeding. Tradition correctly associates jaundice and liver disease: Our blood, like everything else in the body, ages. Red blood cells do not last forever and it is the liver that has to get rid of them. This is done through the bile. In the event of liver disease, the purification is done badly, the level of these degradation substances contained in our blood increases, which colors our skin in yellow. Fortunately, however, nature almost always takes over. And year after year, it is two liters of bile that we secrete every day so that at each meal our digestion, in particular that of fats, is harmonious.
To relieve
So, even if our liver is almost eternal, this is no reason not to respect it in the same way that we protect our heart, that we warm our joints, or that we exercise our memory. Going on a diet is not only to improve your figure but to let the “little prince” breathe a little bit. We will have to think about it in a few days, because all the miracle potions over the counter in pharmacies or prescribed by the doctors to help the “passage” of the holidays are only useless decoys.
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