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Super Foods for Your Liver - Feeling tired all the time? It's all because of your liver!

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Super Foods for Your Liver - Feeling tired all the time? It's all because of your liver! Today’s food for thought! Let’s get educated about one of the most important internal organs, the Liver. The human body entirely works in synergy to maintain homeostasis, which inevitably keeps us healthy. The liver is one of the most vital internal organs that work to keep this synergy. Often, you will come across a famous liver-enhancing supplement TV commercial in Korea that has a catch phrase “it’s all because of your liver”. But what is the liver to be blamed for? What are the fundamental functions of the liver, and what foods do we need to take in to protect our liver? Let’s find out. 1. Functions of the liver: Our body’s main source of energy comes from the liver. The liver stores energy in a form called glycogen, and when the body requires energy, the liver processes the glycogen to produce glucose, our main source of fuel. It also produces one of the most i...

Protect your liver from the end of the year parties!

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        Protect your liver from the end of the year parties!     Beauty tip to be more beautiful from WONJIN !     1.      Minimize the alcohol absorption on body   Have simple meal before drinking alcohol to fill the stomach which will lessen the absorption of alcohol to prevent getting drunk. By delaying alcohol absorption, the amount of alcohol which reaches to nerve cells can also be less.     2.      Drink only as much as you can handle An average adult male who weighs about 60kg’s metabolic rate of alcohol per day is about 80g. This means either one bottle of Soju, 2,000cc of beer, one bottle of wine (about 750ml), or 200ml of hard liquor. Choose the alcohol rate depending on your weight so your liver can stand. And also do not drink alcohol more than twice a week.     3.      Do not share your glass with othe...