What Should Liver Patients Pay Attention To?
The liver stores substances necessary for protein, fat, and blood production, secretes bile which is extremely essential for digestion, helps eliminate toxic substances from the body through digestion, and affects hormone functions. Liver health can be impaired for many reasons, and changing the lifestyle, especially the diet, is extremely effective in liver dysfunction.
Those with a disturbed or weak liver need to maintain a strict diet for life. Foods harmful to the liver include processed meat products like sucuk and salami; spicy foods such as black pepper and pickles that increase metabolic heat and disrupt bile secretion; excessively proteinaceous and fatty foods like eggs, shrimp, and offal; foods high in salt, tomatoes and tomato paste, nuts like sesame, sunflower seeds, walnuts, and peanuts; chocolate and cocoa, and excessive tea consumption. In addition, alcohol and smoking also have negative effects on the liver.
Vegetables such as artichoke, beetroot, celery and its leaves, carrots, and zucchini; fruits like grapefruit, apple, quince, and grapes (dried and fresh); foods such as pumpkin seeds, honey, yogurt, lemon, cucumber, and natural herbal teas like lavender, nigella, and lemon balm have a restorative effect on the liver.
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