Can lack of sleep also cause liver cancer? 8 bad habits are most likely to induce liver cancer

Liver cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in my country, with an average age of 44. Liver cancer is highly malignant and develops rapidly. If treatment is not timely or the treatment plan is not properly selected, the average survival time is half a year. Liver cancer may be asymptomatic in the early stages. Once obvious symptoms appear, about one-third of patients are in the late stages. Patients will feel pain in the liver area, especially after meals, anorexia, enlarged liver, a mass in the right upper abdomen, unexplained weight loss, abdominal distension, diarrhea, intermittent fever, fatigue, loss of appetite, etc.

8 bad habits most likely to induce liver cancer

1. Excessive smoking: Nicotine contained in cigarettes and ethanol, a metabolite of alcohol, are extremely harmful to the liver and are one of the main risk factors for causing disease and inducing cancer.

2. Eating processed foods: These "foods" are usually high in calories, lack of nutrients, high in starch and fat, and full of chemicals, which are harmful to the human liver and have no benefits.

3. Love to eat greasy food: Oil is indispensable in life; fat is one of the essential nutrients for the human body. Appropriate intake of fat-containing foods can provide energy for our body and maintain the normal physiological functions of the human body. However, eating too much greasy food with high fat content is a taboo for healthy diet!

4. Taking medicines indiscriminately: Avoid taking other medicines on your own except for the medicines prescribed by the doctor, because taking multiple medicines is prone to drug interactions and affects the liver's ability to metabolize medicines. When people with liver disease go to the doctor, they should tell the doctor all the medicines they are currently taking, so that the doctor can use them as a reference when prescribing.

5. Drug addiction: The liver is the "chemical factory" of the human body. The transformation and synthesis of various substances absorbed by the human body are completed by the liver. The liver is also the largest detoxification organ in the human body, responsible for breaking down toxic substances absorbed by the human body. The alcohol and drugs mentioned above may cause certain damage to the liver, not to mention the "drugs" that we change color at the mention of!

6. Lack of sleep: If you don’t get enough sleep and don’t rest when you should, it will cause a relative lack of blood flow to the liver, affecting the nutrition and moisture of liver cells, leading to a decrease in resistance. For those infected with hepatitis B virus, the already damaged liver cells will be difficult to repair and may even worsen.

7. Sitting for a long time: Joints, tendons, and ligaments belong to the liver system, and are the structural basis and important channels for the liver to vent and release. Sitting for a long time makes many people's joints, tendons, and ligaments stiff, losing flexibility, and making the channels in the liver's vent and release system blocked. Therefore, we often feel that the more we sit and the less we exercise, the more depressed or irritable we will be.

8. Seven emotions stagnation: Liver qi stagnation, whether fast or slow, will reflect a series of physical diseases, stomachache, abdominal pain, loose stools, headache, chest tightness, irregular menstruation, breast hyperplasia, uterine fibroids, pigmentation, high blood lipids, fatty liver, high blood pressure, etc. Most people often cannot withstand the impact of repeated anger and anger, which will lead to liver qi rebellion and liver yang surge, which is very harmful to the liver and people.

Dietary considerations for liver cancer

1. Avoid eating moldy food

Moldy foods such as peanuts, corn, rice, millet, sweet potato, and radish are easily contaminated by Aspergillus flavus, and aflatoxin is a recognized carcinogen that is 75 times more carcinogenic than nitrosamine and 4,000 times more carcinogenic than chloramine. Therefore, once the above foods are found to be moldy, they should be discarded and never eaten again. If you suspect that a large number of grains, oils, and dairy products are contaminated with mold, you should immediately ask the health and epidemic prevention department to check. Only after obtaining permission can they be distributed, sold, or eaten.

2. Animal and vegetable oils with rancid smell should not be consumed

Stale oils contain malondialdehyde, a chemical component that can generate polymers and react with proteins and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in the human body, promoting protein structure mutations, cell loss of normal function and transformation into early cancer cells. In addition, malondialdehyde polymers can also hinder DNA replication and accelerate the aging process of humans. Therefore, animal and vegetable oils should not be stored for too long, and those that have gone bad should not be eaten.

3. Anti-cancer effect of rice bran fiber

Rice bran is not only rich in B vitamins, which can protect the liver, but also has a good effect in absorbing carcinogenic harmful substances. Since the human body lacks enzymes to digest rice bran fiber, the absorbed harmful substances are excreted from the body in the form of feces. For people with liver disease or long-term carriers of hepatitis B surface antigen, if they can regularly use rice bran to adjust their diet to absorb and excrete harmful substances in the digestive tract, it is a good way to prevent liver cancer.