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Liver protection when drinking alcohol

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The liver is a natural filter of the human body, one of the main functions of this organ is the processing of toxic substances that somehow ended up in the blood. It is on the liver that the task of processing alcohol falls. At least 90% of the alcohol entering the body from the outside is processed in the liver tissue. The functional state of hepatocytes directly affects the body's resistance to alcohol, the consequences of its intake and the likelihood of a hangover after drinking alcohol.

By far the best solution for the liver would be not to consume alcohol at all. However, this is an unlikely decision: the vast majority of people, at least occasionally, but consume alcoholic beverages - therefore, they load the liver with the processing of additional toxins. There are also many who drink too much, forcing the liver to work hard.

In protecting the liver from the harmful effects of alcohol, an integrated approach is important. First of all, it is necessary, if possible, to minimize the damaging effect of alcohol on liver cells and biliary tract. This is achieved not only by minimizing the amount of alcohol consumed, but also by a reasonable approach to drinking it. In particular, it is not recommended to mix alcohol, drink low-grade cheap drinks, in which there are many foreign toxic impurities that aggravate the negative effects of libations on the liver, use colored alcohol and cocktails, including ready. You should not drink on an empty stomach - this way alcohol is absorbed much faster, but you also need to eat wisely. The liver is always harmed by excessively fatty, fried food - the addition of alcoholic libations with a snack of this kind will only exacerbate the load on the liver. As well as a snack with generously flavored and preservative snacks - chips, nuts, dried fish, sausage.

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In addition, it is important to provide timely assistance to the liver, and not with the help of fashionable anti-hangover pills, but taking hepatoprotectors. This is a wide group of drugs, different in their origin and chemical composition, but united by their complex action on liver tissue. Hepatoprotectors have a detoxifying, antioxidant effect on hepatocytes, increase them resistance to damage and promote their regeneration, improve the rheological properties of bile and stimulate its outflow. In the presence of chronic liver diseases, taking hepatoprotectors will avoid exacerbation due to alcohol consumption. In addition, hepatoprotectors allow you to avoid a hangover after drinking alcohol or significantly reduce its intensity. This is achieved by improving the functional state of hepatocytes and, as a consequence, by stimulating the processing and elimination of alcohol decomposition products. Also, hepatoprotectors stimulate bile outflow, thus neutralizing the effect of alcohol, which hinders the passage of bile.

It is not easy to choose a suitable one among the wide range of hepatoprotectors, you need to focus on the composition and principle of action of the drug. In particular, in the matter of protecting the liver from the harmful effects of alcohol, the hepatoprotector of plant origin Legalon has proven itself well. Its active ingredient - silymarin - is obtained from milk thistle fruit extract. It has a pronounced choleretic, detoxifying and antioxidant effect, prevents damage to liver cells by toxic decomposition products of alcohol and accelerates their excretion from the body. Thanks to the unique purification system, the active substances of this German preparation are distinguished by the maximum biological availability for the human body, which significantly distinguishes this drug from other plant hepatoprotectors origin. It is recommended to take it both for prophylaxis at a dosage of 70mg three times a day, and as part of complex therapy, increasing the dosage to 140mg, also three times a day.

To drink or not to drink? It is better not to drink, and if you do drink, then it is extremely moderate, and do not forget about the means of preventing liver damage by alcohol breakdown products, as well as drugs from the group of hepatoprotectors.


Stoyakin Maxim Timofeevich, general practitioner, GKB im. Botkin, g. Moscow

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