Our liver performs hundreds of jobs essential to health and wellbeing. It processes and helps convert digested food into energy, stores vital nutrients for when we need them, cleans the blood of toxins, regulates blood clotting and much more.
So, it’s crucial you take care of it, especially since liver disease can affect anyone and is becoming more common. One in three of us is at risk of liver disease and the numbers of people being diagnosed have been increasing at an alarming rate,” says Pamela Healy, chief executive of the British Liver Trust.
While some causes of liver disease, like genetics and autoimmune conditions, are beyond our control, there are other risk factors where we can take steps to lower our chances of developing liver disease and liver cancer, adds Rebecca West, a specialist liver nurse manager…