| Liver is one of our body's major and most essential | | | | problems. The liver's functioning does not really |
| organs. Liver is situated behind the lower ribs on the | | | | decrease with age so, in the absence of disease, the |
| right side of your abdomen and it's about the size of | | | | liver should work optimally right into very old age. |
| a football, weighs 3 to 4 pounds. It performs | | | | The extensive diseases of the liver are viral hepatitis |
| hundreds of essential functions. Without it, you | | | | and alcoholic liver disease. |
| couldn't digest food and absorb nutrients, get rid of | | | | Viral hepatitis - Viral hepatitis can conduct to serious |
| toxic substances from your body or stay alive. Hep | | | | liver problems and is the most common type of liver |
| Forte offers nutritional support for overall liver health, | | | | disease. Hepatitis causes inflammation of the liver. |
| particularly in cases of : Alcoholism, Hepatic | | | | Hepatitis A, B and C are the most common sources |
| dysfunction due to hepatoxic drugs and liver poisons. | | | | of viral hepatitis. As Hepatitis A is customarily a |
| Without liver, you couldn't digest food and absorb | | | | transient infection, both Hepatitis B and C can be |
| nutrients, get rid of toxic substances from your body | | | | serious and progress to chronic liver disease, even |
| or stay alive. | | | | causing liver cirrhosis or liver cancer. |
| The liver offer your body with critical functions like | | | | Liver Cirrhosis can be due to any long-term, |
| filtering blood, reducing toxins and producing factors | | | | continuous cause of liver damage. These causes |
| that help blood clot. It serves as a storage depot for | | | | include Hepatitis B and C and inherited liver disease. |
| sugar (glucose), which it releases when you need | | | | When the liver is wounded some of the running cells |
| energy. Your liver also works as a chemical factory, | | | | die and are replaced by scar tissue. Once cirrhosis has |
| producing many substances that perform vital tasks | | | | developed, the process cannot be reversed even if |
| in your body. For examples include bile, a fluid that | | | | the original cause recovers. |
| carries away waste and helps digest fat in the small | | | | Alcoholic liver disease - Alcoholic liver ailment does not |
| intestine, and cholesterol, a substance needed by | | | | affect each person who drinks alcohol. Though it is |
| every cell in your body. It deals with many drugs into | | | | dependent on the amount of alcohol consumed over |
| forms that are easier for the body to use. It also | | | | time, some people seem to be more susceptible to |
| converts sugar into triglycerides (lipids/fats) and | | | | the adverse effects of alcoholic beverages. Too |
| glycogen (a form of glucose/sugar stored by the | | | | much alcohol can make a normal liver swell with fat, |
| liver) that helps regulates the body's needs. | | | | causing a condition called fatty liver. If the fat |
| What can be improper with your liver? | | | | becomes inflamed, it can lead to either alcoholic |
| As with all organs of the body, the liver is subject to | | | | hepatitis, a liver problem that causes serious but |
| a range of disorders and diseases. Severe | | | | often reversible liver damage, or cirrhosis, which |
| complications may be happens if you develop any | | | | causes irreversible liver damage. Because of |
| liver problem. Some liver problems can't be | | | | extensive scarring, a cirrhotic liver shrinks to a |
| prevented, such as those that are hereditary, but | | | | fraction of its normal size. |
| you can take an active part in preventing other liver | | | | |