9 Warning Signs of Liver Problem - Dr. Gary Sy

Your liver is a key part of your digestive system, responsible for cleaning out toxins from your blood, processing medicines, producing bile, helping you digest fat, storing glucose and producing proteins for clotting your blood, among many other things. It’s also a fairly forgiving organ, able to regenerate cells up to a point, but repeated damage to the liver leads to inflammation, scarring and cirrhosis. This causes it to shrink and harden, and changes the structure of the liver, preventing it from functioning well. A high intake of alcohol or toxins, a diet high in fat, and some viral infections, such as hepatitis, can cause damage to the liver. Liver disease doesn’t usually cause any symptoms until the damage to the liver is fairly advanced. Gary S. Sy, M.D. Diplomate in Geriatric Medicine Integrative Health & Medicine Functional Medicine Practitioner Clinic details: The Life Extension Center for Health & Wellness 3rd Floor of Bell-Kenz Tower 127 Malakas Street Central Diliman, Quezon City (at the back of Philippine Heart Center). Contact numbers: (02) 8911-13-14 (02) 8400-42-05 Cellular phone # 0917-5777675 Consultation strictly by appointment only.