If you're not a drinker, should you care about your liver?

Hey there, folks.

I'm getting more questions than usual about preventing colds. Understandably so, with kids going back to school.

One thing that people rarely talk about in the context of prevention is liver health. A lot of people don't pay much mind to the liver unless they're drinking excessively. But it's one of the hardest working organs you have, whether it's processing alcohol or not. It's constantly neutralizing the elements and packaging up waste products for removal, which allows your body to function without potentially harmful compounds in the way.

Here are a few ways I give my liver extra support.

Reduce Refined Carb Intake

Your liver works hard to convert carbs into glucose that your body can use. When you don’t use the glucose in your blood, it gets stored in the liver and skeletal muscle as glycogen, and if you have excess after that, it gets stored as body fat. With refined carbs, it’s easy to get there.

Studies show that carb overfeeding, especially with fructose, can congest the liver and possibly lead to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which affects how efficiently your liver works.

Practice Time-restricted Eating

In one study, mice were fed a typical soybean oil-fructose-based lab diet, the “high-fat” kind that reliably plumps up their livers. Switching to a shortened eating window eliminated the metabolic fallout. They didn't get fat, they didn't get insulin resistant, and, most importantly, they didn't experience liver dysfunction.

Vitamin D

This study showed that vitamin D may improve some liver health markers. You don't make as much natural vitamin D in the winter because synthesis requires sunlight. But you can supplement to make up the difference.

Antioxidants

Antioxidants can help make your liver's job easier by neutralizing a portion of circulating free radicals before they can do damage to your cells.

Choline

Choline protects against fatty liver by providing the backbone for VLDL—the particle the liver uses to transport fat out into the body. Without adequate choline, you can’t make enough VLDL for transport and the fat tends to accumulate in the liver.

Egg yolks are the best source of choline, and you can boost your intake with supplements as well.

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You can obtain some Vitamin D from your diet, but only a limited number of foods naturally contain vitamin D. These include wild salmon, mackerel, herring, catfish, and cod liver oil. Liver and eggs contain small amounts of Vitamin D as well, and some products are fortified with Vitamin D.

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