Living With Liver Disease

How coffee could be your liver's savior

How coffee could be your liver’s savior: Drink shown to protect against a host of deadly diseases Drink may protect against certain cancers that affect the womb and liver World Health Organisation says no link between coffee and bladder cancer New research concludes that coffee protects against fatty liver disease, liver fibrosis and liver cirrhosis…

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The Most Important Meal of the Day

** Note: The source of this article is a Hep C publication and of course it talks about hep c. For those without hep c substitute liver disease as the meaning is the same ** By Nicole Cutler L.Ac. May 6, 2015 Living with chronic Hepatitis C leaves some with a disadvantaged liver, requiring extra…

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So Why These Articles?

Liver disease or cirrhosis is a very complex subject. Indeed the liver is a very complex organ (or gland), it is arguably as complex as the brain and certainly less understood. When issues start occurring with your liver the effects can be devastating and potentially deadly. Your liver controls around 500 different functions within the…

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Who Should Read This?

Who Should Read This? Obviously the target audience is people who are diagnosed with liver disease or cirrhosis. If you are looking for signs, symptoms, or otherwise proof of your condition, this is probably not the place for you. Liver disease is pretty unambiguous. If you have it, you know all about it. If it…

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The Diagnosis

To be diagnosed with cirrhosis is a truly awful experience. Many people who go through this have no idea what cirrhosis is, or maybe they’ve heard of it but are unsure what it actually means. Virtually no one is going to know what to expect, what the disease entails and what is going to happen…

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How Long Have I Got?

Let us tackle this thorny subject first as it seems to be the one question that many people are asking (and quite rightly!). Cirrhosis, however it comes about usually takes a long time to develop. I say usually because in the current culture of binge drinking in the UK, death from acute liver failure is…

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So What Is Cirrhosis?

In order to begin to understand about cirrhosis and why the disease is quite so devastating we need to start with the liver. This rather nasty picture is of a cirrhotic liver which was taken out of a friend of mine. She was 22 years old at the time and suffered with Cryptogenic Cirrhosis (which…

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Portal Vein – The Road to Hell

{jcomments off}The Road to Hell is an album and track by Chris Rea which is about the nightmare traffic jams on the M25 around London. "Well I'm standing by a river But the water doesn't flow It boils with every poison you can think of" In many ways our Portal Vein becomes our Road to…

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Ascites – The Fluid in the Abdomen

Of the Trinity of major symptoms of cirrhosis, ascites, varices and hepatic encephalopathy, ascites seems to be the most common. It may be more common that the other two but that fact doesn’t make it any less nasty or any more treatable. Ascites in simple terms is a build up of fluid in the abdominal…

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