I'm dr. Peter Kramer with Rezo Beach
Family Medicine in Wilmington North
Carolina the question is how to improve
liver function the liver is an amazing
organ the liver will synthesize process
break down many many chemicals and
whether they're toxic medication foods
and chemicals that we eat during our
normal course of life the liver does
process these chemicals by using special
enzymes when things come in contact with
liver these enzymes will then break the
chemicals down in their component pieces
and either discard them or process them
and recycle them into other components
or reassemble them into other proteins
that may need you really can't do
anything to help the liver promote
itself but what the best thing to do is
to remove any kind of offending agent or
irritant from the liver the most common
would be acetaminophen containing
products which a brand name would be
Tylenol but acetaminophen is very common
in headache powders and many other
over-the-counter cold and cough
preparations and things like that so
acetaminophen can be a little bit
irritating to the liver number one has
to be alcohol for sure if you remove
alcohol from your consumption you will
really help your liver far more than
almost anything else alcohol is really
toxic to every cell in the body there's
no cell you can take from the body put
it in alcohol and have it live you can
take other cells skin cells and and
mouth cells and intestinal cells put
them in salt water baths and they'll
last for a day or two perhaps alcohol
kills every cell in the body instantly
so nothing good really ever came from
drinking alcohol and it's especially
toxic to the liver there are some people
that are called slowest settl eaters
where they cannot process alcohol
quickly enough and so the alcohol keeps
passing through the body and then back
through the liver and every time it
passes through there it kills more and
more liver cells so those are some
things you want to do to have a
healthier liver is to remove the
offending agents from your diet so
that's a little bit about how to have a
healthier liver