March 3, 2025 – Newsletter Archive
A Fatty Liver is NOT a Healthy Liver
This week’s edition of SelfCare we focus on fatty liver. And we will be looking at fatty liver for the next three weeks. We will say what fatty liver is, look at what causes it, why fatty liver is a cause for concern, identify some health conditions that may arise due to fatty liver and suggest some self-care practices that you may adopt to prevent or help remedy fatty liver.
What is Fatty Liver?
A liver becomes fatty when fat deposits in its cells. Usually this occurs when the cells are injured.
What Causes Fatty Liver?
There are many conditions that can cause your liver to become fatty. The main conditions are alcohol consumption, being overweight or obese, insulin resistance (or type 2 diabetes), high levels of fat in your blood, abnormal levels of unhealthy cholesterol, smoking, some medications, under-active thyroid and a condition called metabolic syndrome. All these may result in liver cells injury. When liver cells are injured, it is easy for fat to be deposited in them.
What Your Liver Does
To understand why fatty liver is a cause for concern you must know what your liver does.
Your liver plays an important role in helping with digestion of the food you eat. When food is digested, energy can be released. Your body uses this energy to carry out its daily activities.
Your liver helps break down most medications so your body can use them. If your medications can’t be broken down, they are of no use to you.
Most importantly, your liver is the largest organ inside your body that helps with ridding the body of toxins (garbage). When liver cells are injured and they become fatty, they are unable to rid your body of garbage.
What Happens When Your Liver Can’t Do What It Should Do?
If your liver can’t do what it should do, toxins and garbage build up in your body. When garbage builds up in your body it can affect how you think. If you can’t think properly, you cannot perform your job and other activities in an excellent manner.
If your liver can’t do what it should do, you may not have enough energy to carry out your daily activities. You will start feeling weak and sick.
If your liver can’t do what it should do, prescribed medication may not work as effective as they should.
When your liver can’t do what it should do, all other organs must perform their task in a toxic environment. This limits their ability to function. It is like a build-up of garbage in a community! The result is that other organs may become sick as well.
Fatty liver may cause skin and bowel diseases, chronic allergic states, autoimmune disease and other chronic inflammation that can affect your muscles and joints. It may result in liver failure (e.g. cirrhosis), diabetes, hypertension, heart conditions, and liver cancers. These are the reasons why a fatty liver is concerning and must be taken seriously.
Next week we begin looking at some self-care practices to prevent or help remedy fatty liver.
Self-Care Activity
After reading this self-care discussion, tell a family member what fatty liver is and why it should be prevented using your own words.
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