Great Coffee for a healthy liver!

It's common knowledge that coffee is not only enjoyable but also health-friendly. Beyond the rest of its benefits, coffee consumption can catalyze the health of a very important organ: the liver!

Coffee, according to doctors and researchers, provides significant benefits for the human body, helping to prevent various diseases such as heart disease, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's, hypotension, but also improving brain function. Being the most widespread source of antioxidants in modern diet, coffee is almost essential for a balanced, healthy diet, despite the past prejudices that supported the opposite. But there is an instrument that seems to be more beneficial than the rational consumption of coffee: the liver!

What's the liver and what factors are threats for it?

The liver is an organ necessary for human life, which performs a wide range of functions including detoxification, protein synthesis and the production of biochemical substances necessary for food digestion. The liver plays a predominant role in metabolism and performs many functions of the body, including glycogen storage, red blood cell destruction, plasma protein synthesis, hormone production and toxic substances removal from the body, whether they are exogenous or are derivatives of metabolism.

Aside from necessary, the liver is also particularly sensitive to a number of factors that alter its tissues (fibrosis), which can reach its complete destruction (cirrhosis). The liver is at risk from asymptomatic infectious diseases, such as various forms of hepatitis, from alcohol abuse, but a major risk comes from a disease that is characteristic of the modern lifestyle, namely fatty liver disease, that is, the accumulation of fat in the liver.

What do scientist claim about the relation of coffee and liver?

Medical research from around the world suggests that coffee consumption acts as a catalyst in maintaining good liver health and can help combat liver damage. Studies in patients with liver disease have shown that 1-2 cups of coffee a day reduce the chance of developing cirrhosis disease by 44%, while 3-4 cups by 65%. At the same time, the effects of coffee on preventing the development of liver cancer are under laboratory reseach.

Even in more serious cases, such as alcoholic cirrhosis or severe hepatitis, it has been shown that drinking coffee can act as a supporter of the main therapy, helping the liver recover its healthy cells and function properly. Particularly in the case of fatty liver disease, which is treated with strict diet and physical exercise, coffee consumption helps not only to detoxify the liver but also to the diet itself, accelerating metabolism.

How does coffee helps liver?

A cup of coffee contains, in addition to caffeine, more than 1000 chemical compounds. Although not all of the benefits to our body have been studied, doctors have discovered that coffee paraxanthin reduces the volume of scarr liver tissue that characterizes patients with fibrosis, regardless of the causes that cause it. Also, coffee acids have been shown to act against hepatitis viruses, reducing the impact of the disease and making it easier to deal with it. In terms of fatty liver disease, coffee not only helps in the regeneration of liver tissue through paroxanthin, but also makes it easier to lose weight which is a necessary condition for treating the disease.

Is there anything else that we should know?

Often, coffee consumption is linked to the harmful smoking habit, which is detrimental to human health. By disconnecting coffee from smoking, we not only benefit our body but also make the taste of coffee more delicious. Also, that has been written above applies to neat coffee, as a coffee with sugar, syrup, whipped cream or chocolate is often a calorie bomb that not only does not help but puts it on. Lastly, we do not forget that the responsible doctor is the only person responsible for our health, who should be consulted regularly and his instructions followed at all cost. Coffee helps in a proper and balanced diet, but can not substitute for a cure if it is necessary.

We do not get used to say "bless you", when drinking coffee. But if we think of how beneficial to our liver a cup of coffee is, we would crack our espresso without a second thought. God Bless Coffee, after all.