• I am one of the most important members of the family of VITAL ORGANS
  
  
• I weigh around 1.2 - 1.5 Kg. I am filled with blood all the time. Around 1.5 liters of blood pass through me every minute for purification.
  
  
• I am the check post of your body. Practically everything that you consume, whether it is food items, drugs, alcohol or even all the injections that you administer, such as steroids have to come to me and prove their innocence before playing their purposeful role on your vital organs.
  
  
• I am armed to take in my custody toxic materials such as alcohol and excess of steroidal drugs, which harm your blood vessels, heart, kidneys, and brain. I convert them in less harmful chemicals and throw them out of your body.
  
  
• I manufacture so many chemicals in the form of enzymes and hormones that I am rightly called as the chemical factory of your body. I manufacture -
  
1. The yellow pigment -bile, which gives normal color to stools and urine and digests fats
   
   
2. Blood clotting factors, which rush to the injured site of your body and stop bleeding immediately
   
   
3. Various proteins such as albumin, which are essential to maintain your health
   
   
• I am the powerhouse of your body. I digest
  
1. Fats. I convert them in a simpler form and utilize when more energy is required by body
   
   
2. Proteins. I form amino acids for converting them into energy and throw waste in the form of urea and nitrogen
   
   
3. Carbohydrates. I store excess sugar in the form of glycogen and convert it to glucose whenever your blood glucose levels go down
   

My strengths
Since I constantly fight against all the toxins which enter the body through food and drugs, or those produced in the body as a result of various chemical reactions, I am provided with extraordinary defense system for maintaining my own health.

I am so strong that I can carry out all the functions normally even if 80% of me is damaged. I can regenerate to my old self even if a large number of my cells are destroyed by drugs or viruses.

Hey, you know something, I have two trusted messengers with me. One is

1. SGPT
(glutamic pyruvic transaminase) or alanine aminotransferase (ALT), and the other is


2. SGOT
( glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase) or aspartate aminotransferase (AST) They are the enzymes, who communicate to you when you are sick and as to how sick you are.

But YOU make me sick, causing me to overwork and increase the levels of my messengers!!!

• Consuming alcohol every day in large quantities (more than 60 ml.)
  
  
• Taking drugs (anabolic steroids) to increase body weight / muscle mass
  
  
• Eating unhygienic food and drinking unclean / impure water, thus inviting hepatitis A virus
  
  
• Administering injections / drugs with used needles and inviting trouble through hepatitis B virus
  

• you consume alcohol regularly
• you consume steroids for strengthening of muscles
• you have had any minor / major injury causing bleeding during the past six months
• you are in close contact with a person suffering from viral hepatitis
• you have been given blood transfusion in the past

• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Pain in the abdomen especially in the right side just below the ribs
• Dark yellow / reddish urine
• Loss of appetite with loss of weight

My reaction to your foolhardiness and carelessness is to become inflamed, red and swollen with anger....is known as hepatitis. These conditions as I have enumerated below are serious conditions and you need to read through them carefully:

1. Steroids-induced hepatitis (SGPT / SGOT levels rise 10-200 times more than normal)
2. Alcohol-induced liver problems such as
• Fatty liver (SGPT / SGOT levels show a mild rise)
• Alcoholic hepatitis (Severe liver disease showing moderate rise in SGPT / SGOT levels)
• Cirrhosis (Gradual death of liver cells showing a mild rise in SGPT / SGOT levels
3. Viral hepatitis (Acute Hepatitis B and C being most dangerous, when SGPT / SGOT levels rise 1000 times with severe blockade of bile flow, giving rise to jaundice)

These acute disorders are very much deceptive, for when after initial treatment and adequate rest, you might start feeling absolutely fit and fine, in reality and what you can not see is the fact that I am being literally KILLED every day at the hands of these harmful substances (Steroids & other drugs, alcohol, virus). This condition is known as chronic persistant and chronic active hepatitis.

If you fail to take proper care at the right time, I get hurt badly, and slowly start shrinking, going yellow and pale, dying a slow death, which neither I deserve, nor you.......

DON'T TAKE ANY CHANCES WITH MY HEALTH!
REMEMBER - YOU CAN'T BE HEALTHY UNLESS AND UNTIL I AM HEALTHY!!!

TAKE CARE OF ME & I WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU ALWAYS!!!!!