Modern people's living environments and lifestyles are very detrimental to the health of liver, but stay up late is just like a potluck, so are overtime, the all-night karaoke and so on, all these are influencing the emotional stability and quietude, and even directly endangering the health of the liver.

Most liver cancer cases are due to stay up late

It is clinically proven that except for genetic, infectious factors, most liver diseases are due to "stay up late”. Heavy workload and large amount quantity of learning often cause mental fatigue and physical fatigue, so if coupled with the long-term lack of sleep or poor quality sleep, it would lead to liver disease’ symptoms slowly.

Clinical observation found that most of fatty liver patients have these common symptoms, such as insomnia, mood swings, fatigue, etc. So for fatty liver cases, especially severe fatty liver cases, they should emphasize the importance of sleep. Rest can reduce the consumption of physical strength, and also reduce glycogenolysis, protein decomposition and production of lactic acid after activity, so as to reduce physiological burden on the liver. Therefore, bed rest can increase blood flow to the liver and increase the supply of blood, oxygen and nutrition, promoting the recovery of liver cells.

Sufficient sleep can increase the liver immunity

It has been observed that the hepatic blood flow when in the standing up is 40% less than that when in lying, if standing up and accompanied by movement, it would be reduced by 80 % -85 % of the liver blood flow when lying in the bed. Liver blood flow reduction will directly affect the nutrition and oxygen supply of the liver. However, too much emphasis on bed rest and sleep will also add to the burden of the patient's mental, impact regulatory function of the brain and coordination of internal organs’ functions, so it is not conducive to the body's metabolism.

Research experimental results show that if a person sleeps less than 4 hours per night, his immune system will be declined by 50%. We asked 42 hepatitis B virus carriers not to sleep during the period of 3am -7am, when we checked the 42 persons in the day time, we found that the activity of immune cells of their bodies was weakened by 31%, but after these volunteers get enough sleep, the immunity has completely been restored.

Liver cancer experts of Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou advice: Sleep is very important for the health of the liver, and if you want to avoid any liver lesion, you should ensure adequate sleep and good sleep quality.

*Surgery, in addition to the appropriate chemotherapy and radiotherapy, are effective in treating early cancer, but certain patients in late stage of cancer may not be tolerate surgery well as they can be relatively weak. A combination of carefully planned minimally invasive therapy, chemotherapy or radiotherapy can effectively reduce the side effects and discomfort of treatment and may help patient get better efficacy.