Aperitif, barbecue, ice cream … With the excesses of summer, your liver gives signs of fatigue? Bloating, nausea or headache are not uncommon during the summer months. Organ often forgotten, the liver is a real waste treatment center. It filters residues from digestion, alcohol, drugs, and secretes bile, essential for fat digestion. Its role greatly exceeds the digestive sphere: it regulates metabolism, influences blood circulation and participates in hormonal balance. Alexandra Murcier, dietitian-nutritionist, gives us some simple gestures to adopt.
Why does the liver fatigue during the summer?
During the summer, fatty meals and alcohol glasses accumulate. Result: the liver, overloaded, works in slow motion. This “liver fatigue” can result in visible and often annoying symptoms: rastered, nausea, darker urine, canker sores, fatty hair … So many signals that call to react quickly. “”The liver plays in a way the role of garbage collector. It cleanses the blood and produced with the pancreas of the bile to activate the transit and evacuate the waste to the exit door of the intestines. It is an emunctory of the body“Explains Charlotte Régnier-Vigouroux, naturopath in Marseille, in a previous interview.
Fortunately, some simple reflexes can help the liver recover. Alexandra Murcier delivers a series of concrete advice to set up without delay.
Simple gestures to support your liver
No need to embark on a strict cure or a eccentric diet: some adjustments in your habits are enough to relieve your liver. Our expert details:
- “”Drink a lot of water to compensate for dehydration due to alcohol consumption … and avoid water retention if you have consumed too salty foods“;
- “”Do not drink alcohol between the holidays: the liver is the organ which allows the elimination of alcohol: to take care of it, you should not overload your work“;
- “”Consume as little sugar as possible: it also overloads the work of the liver“;
- “”Not consuming unnecessary drugs: the role of the liver is also to eliminate them. It is therefore necessary to limit their consumption to the maximum, without stopping an important treatment of course. The right attitude? In the event of a small headache, try to avoid paracetamol and drink more water for example“.
Simple but precious advice, to follow today so that your liver can resume its breath … before the next feast.