The liver performs many critical functions
- Helps in digestion of food
- Helps distribute nutrients such as vitamins and minerals
- Helps clean the blood by removing toxins
- Manufacturers proteins that help blood clot and promote healing
What happens when the liver is not working properly?
- Absorption of vitamins and nutrients are decreased
- Waste products are not efficiently removed from the body
- Proteins that help blood clot are reduced
- Body is unable to get the needed nutrients to provide energy and promote healing
- Hepatitis A,B & C
- Fatty Liver ( NASH)-Non Alcholic steatohepatitis
- Auto Immune Hepatitis
- Alcoholic liver disease
- Liver Cancer
- Primary Biliary Cirrhosis ( PBC)
- Primary sclerosing Cholangitis
- Sudden acute liver failure
- Cryptogenic cirrhosis
- Fatigue : extreme tiredness
- Ascites : excess fluid in the abdomen
- Encephalopathy : confusion from high ammonia level in the blood
- Jaundice : yellow color seen in eyes /skin
- Pruritis : uncontrolled itching of the skin
- Edema : swelling in the feet and legs
- Bleeding : from esophagus, stomach or rectum