Is your lifestyle destroying your liver?
The liver, as you all know, is not only the second largest organ of the body after the skin but also the main organ for metabolism. Everything we eat goes to the liver before reaching anywhere else in the body. The liver stores excess energy as fat and condensed glucose called glycogen. So whenever we overeat, energy is stored in the liver in the form of fat. If we continue to do this for months and years then fat starts to accumulate in the liver and its size gets bigger. There comes a point when the liver can no longer take it and begins to go through destruction. What is a fatty liver? Whenever the accumulation of fat in the liver exceeds 5% of the weight of the liver, it is known as the fatty liver. Although alcohol was considered a major cause of fatty liver in the last century, diet and lifestyle are now rapidly becoming a major cause of fatty liver. This disease is known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease or NAFLD. Once it starts destroying the liver it is called steatohepa