Menopause in the liver (肝)? 'This' hurts more than 'Alcohol' for liver health?

YTN Radio (FM 94.5) [YTN News FM Lee Ik-seon Choi Soo-young Issue & People]

□ Broadcast date and time: December 13, 2024 (Fri)
□ Host: Choi Soo-young
□ Starring: Korean medicine doctor Kim Moon-ho

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◆Choi Soo-young: Your physical strength has been exhausted for a week. Let's recharge here. Knowledge Battery to Communicate Health Today, we are with Kim Moon-ho, a celebrity in the Korean medical history world. Please come in. Today's topic is liver damage due to frequent drinking due to drinking appointments, and there are many people who have plans this evening. Including me. At the end of the year and New Year's holidays, the calendar is full of drinking appointments. And the situation is so chaotic these days, so I'm sure there are a lot of people who fell asleep after drinking, but you also like drinking, right?

◇Kim Moon-ho: I love drinking so much. I hung up. It's been about two years since I hung up. It's been exactly two years since my father passed away, and since then, I've suddenly lost 15 kilograms. Not only did my physical strength deteriorate a lot, but I also thought about living here again. Thinking about my kids, I couldn't help but live. I just hung up then. I was a heavy drinker.

◆Choi Soo-young: Why does that sound so sharp to me? Today's battery will be about the health of the liver and the hangover from alcohol with Director Kim Won-ho. So you have something you're curious about. Actually, it's alcohol. We always drink it a lot in our daily lives, but this is the symptom of my body being like this because I ate a little. Please text me if you have any other questions. YTN app and YouTube comment windows are also open, so if you have any questions about hangovers or liver before the show ends, I would appreciate it if you could text me anytime. This liver, what kind of organ is it?

◇Kim Moon-ho: Even if you give a lecture, 10 hours is not enough. The liver is not enough even for 3 nights and 4 days, but the liver should just come as the center length. It's called the head quarter, the headquarters, the headquarters of our bodies. And the liver is called the General Branch. It's because it's called liver blood, so it's the eldest son to save. The liver is said to store blood. The liver stores a large amount of blood, and unlike during the day when sleeping, the activity decreases, so a large portion of the blood at the ends of the limbs comes to the central organ and is stored.

◆Choi Soo-young: Is the liver blood gathering?

◇Kim Moon-ho: You can think of it as a place where blood has accumulated. So the place where the blood we go is gathered. And for kidneys, you can look at the place where turbidity gathers and filters.

◆Choi Soo-young: That's why it works as a filter.

◇Kim Moon-ho: That's why we detoxify all the waste blood in the liver after we use it all day. After detoxification, the blood is saved again from there. clear blood After detoxifying all the pure and pure blood from the liver, the leftover liver is a chemical factory. So you can think of it as a chemical factory. It's a factory that decomposes and detoxifies through chemical enzymes, and after chemical decomposition here, only the remaining waste is thrown into the kidneys. That's why the kidneys only act as a filter and a water purifier filter. Most of the roles are like that. There are other roles. Is there a place where the liver doesn't bleed that much?

◆Choi Soo-young: It's diverse. Is there a place where blood doesn't go?

◇Kim Moon-ho: If there's a place where blood doesn't go, that's not a person. That's why it's called the central organ or the general branch of the command. You can give me your question here, but I don't just control the liver, but I'll see the pancreas together.

◆ Choi Soo-young: Is the bile and pancreas?

◇Kim Moon-ho: That's right. You get to tie the liver together. In fact, the liver is so long-term that there are no major symptoms even if there is an abnormality in the liver, and even if there is an abnormality, you can earn time to treat it. The rest is because there is a living liver area. But the pancreatic gallbladder. If something goes wrong, there are quite a few cases where you can't get any treatment and you have to get it. He's too small. It's as big as a snail. It's small. It's only the snail. So, I actually don't have much symptoms. All pancreatic gallbladder livers have little symptoms because their organs are too large. Pancreatic and gallbladder are so small that they don't have many symptoms and just can't digest? It's frustrating, and it's quite difficult to know in advance because it's already progressed a lot when the face reaches jaundice.

◆ Choi Soo-young: That's why it's called the silent talent.

◇Kim Moon-ho: That's right. Yesterday, he tormented that silent organ with alcohol.

◆Choi Soo-young: I shouldn't know when my organs are silent.

◇Kim Moon-ho: I'm not stupid just because I'm closing my mouth. He silently detoxifies six bottles of soju he drank yesterday all night for his owner, but the owner promises to drink again today. So Gan is a real general who is so silent and keeps his loyalty for his master.

◆Choi Soo-young: Okay. We know that the majority of alcohol is what harms our liver's health. I heard there's a lot of alcohol, but I heard there's something else.

◇Kim Moon-ho: The biggest thing that harms liver health, stress.

◆ Choi Soo-young: Are you more stressed than drinking?

◇Kim Moon-ho: You can look at it like this. Our five intestines are the heart and soul. The liver comes out in the front. And now, because the five senses are called Noh Hee-sabigong, they are called Noh Hee-sabigong, No-sabigong, No-sabigong, No-sabigong, No-sabigong, No-sabigong, No-sabigong, No-sabigong, No-sabigong, No-sabigong, No-sabigong. Gan and Noeul Noja in front of me have the same match. If you build a lot of anger in your body, it's different from a vase. Don't you say that you're burning a pain that's even more than a vase? If the elderly are quenching their anger, their liver can be damaged. In particular, even in the case of acute hepatitis, most of them are toxic hepatitis caused by clinical toxicity, but even though they are not toxic hepatitis at all, acute liver cancer or acute stomach cancer are often caused by stress. Of course, from a modern medical perspective, there may be a concept that stress is caused by destroying the immune system, but if there is a situation where you have too much thoughts and don't know how to solve your unresolved anger in oriental medicine, including those related to modern medical immunity, your liver can be damaged. In addition to that, if you drink a lot like Choi Soo-young, there will be a lot of stress, but there may be cases where you and I suddenly meet at the hospital. You need to be careful. And there are many things related to food. So, when we look at nutritional supplements and things like that, we usually manufacture them in places with good hygiene management, so there are a lot of nutritional supplements that we buy and take at home shopping. Also, nutritional supplements that you buy online are okay. Health functional foods and nutritional supplements are all good, but the problem is that if it doesn't suit me, it can be an extreme drug. In this case, I ask you to go see the pharmacist. I have all the nutritional supplements I'm taking at home and all the medicines and nutritional supplements. You have all the medicine baskets. If you bring an entire medicine basket and discuss it with the pharmacist, this will overlap, so you may not feel well. It's a good match, but it's a composition, but it can be bad for your mother. Since you say this, in this case, it would be better to go to the pharmacist with a medicine basket and discuss it.

◆Choi Soo-young: That's right. You give me a very good lecture. Dear listener, 'I haven't had a drink in three years and I've had it 365 days before. 3rd year no drinking anyway. But how long will it take for this liver to return to normal? ’

◇Kim Moon-ho: The clinic usually tells us to drink alcohol at least for 3 days. Because there's a half-life. Some blood pressure medicines have a half-life of 12 hours, and there are 24 hours and 20 hours because drugs are good these days. You know the half production. Half of it flies away and disappears, but it takes at least three days for a warm cold. Blood pressure medication. And to be completely warm, you quit in the case of blood pressure drugs and more than a month later, it is now accepted by clinical practice. The same goes for alcohol. Alcohol itself is a fermentation machine. Our bodies are fermentation machines. Our body controls everything through fermentation and detoxifies production, and it's yin and yang. I'm doing both production and detoxification, and the same goes for alcohol. Our body is a machine that makes alcohol and breaks it down. Alcohol is absorbed very quickly. Our body absorbs quickly and leaves quickly. However, it goes out quickly, but from the next afternoon or so, after the alcohol is decomposed, we need time to recover the damage to our organs, especially our muscle tissues. That's why we need not only material detoxification that detoxifies liver alcohol, but also the body detoxifies and reorganizes to release all the dead cells, predate, and generate live cells. For those processes to be completed, I usually tell you to cross over for at least a week to drink. He didn't even drink at all for about three years. Then you're already done, right? It's already all back. But the problem is that you've aged for three years. As I get older, I can't tell if the alcohol hasn't been detoxified yet or if it's hard because I'm old. I'll organize it for now. You can think that the alcohol has already been detoxified. The liver, which has suffered from alcohol for a long time, has recovered almost 90%. It's not just aging. Are we in the menopause again? In this case, you can go to a family medicine doctor or a nearby oriental medicine clinic or pharmacy to get a prescription for Nutrition. Usually, I recommend the vitamin b group complex in this case. Vitamin b doesn't have 1, 2, or 3. Vitamin b has been a bundle of vitamin b groups since I discovered it. Separating the batches, you do vitamin 1, you do vitamin 6, you do vitamin 2, and so on. So there's a lot of good vitamin b nutritional supplements that we've prescribed or now blended as a vitamin b compound. If you eat those things, there are a few representative things. Yes, it's very good to sell in Korea. There's nothing better than that.

◆Choi Soo-young: Okay. Dear listener, "I'm in the countryside. Is there a way to get better? ’ That's what he said.

◇Kim Moon-ho: In general, fatty liver is often hereditary. So, if you look at it materially and in a closed way, it's because of alcohol. It's because it's too oily. When you have excess carbohydrates rather than fat. When the carbohydrate is excessive with fat, it is converted into glucose, and it is stored as fat due to the overflowing sugar of glucose, and if the fat continues to accumulate deep under the skin, it goes to the abdominal cavity in the stomach. It builds up in the abdominal cavity. If it doesn't work, it builds up in the thoracic cavity between liver cells, between heart cells, and the abdominal cavity. Like marbling, oil gets stuck between cells. It also gets stuck inside the blood vessels. That's why fatty liver stuck like marbling between the tissues of the liver is called fatty liver. Generally speaking, it is said to be alcoholic, but there are quite a lot of non-alcoholic fatty liver. This is because of the oversupply of carbohydrates.

◆Choi Soo-young: Wait a minute. Let me introduce this one here. So the listener said this. My wife doesn't even drink, but her liver count goes back and forth from 10 to 11. Why is that? Will it be okay? ’ Is this non-alcoholic?

◇Kim Moon-ho: That's right. If you have fatty liver, some women drink when they are young and don't drink now. Some of them secretly ate a lot when they were young, but in general, women grow up to be fatty liver. after the menopause Fat is the ingredient that makes hormones. Women. When you're old enough to make hormones out of belly fat, thigh fat, and you don't have to use hormones, these fat have nothing to do. So, what comes with the sudden feeling of fat? an increase in blood pressure I have quite high blood pressure. So, there are a lot of statistics on national health insurance that cause high blood pressure and fat pipes between the ages around the menopause and those in their 50s. If we want to treat or prevent fatty liver, it's actually good to be prescribed medicine, but before that, there's no point in taking medicine without solving problems. Would it be better to take the medicine if I didn't eat and asked to make it? I'll tell you to eat. It's the same as it is. For fatty liver, first, you have to control the excess of carbohydrates. That's why you have to reduce the amount of carbohydrates you eat at dinner. If you reduce it too much, your body will be stressed out. Since our body eats sugar and lives primarily, carbohydrates must come in to go to brain sugar and muscle sugar. That's why you have to eat, but if you reduce or cut off too much carbohydrates in the evening, you can't sleep. Your brain doesn't have brain sugar, so if you empty your baby, you can't sleep. You have to eat it, but don't reduce it too much, but think of it as being a little uneven and then reducing the average amount overall. Dinner and night snacks control carbohydrates as much as possible. So I eat only about 70% on average. You can eat whole chicken, but you can say that you eat whole chicken about once a week.

◆Choi Soo-young: Listeners, let me introduce the content of this text. "I'm in my early 60s, where I drink three bottles of soju three times a week. After drinking this alcohol, itching and red allergies on the skin appear on the hips, thighs, and stomach, what is the cause and how should I treat it? ’ That's what they said.

◇Kim Moon-ho: You saw it very well characteristically. This is no longer a dermatological disease. Hip, lower belly, upper belly or thigh, inner thigh. It can come like this. In this case, the liver is unable to detoxify and is overflowing with poison, and the waves overflowing like this are overflowing.

◆Choi Soo-young: Then it's like a rash.

◇Kim Moon-ho: You can think of it as a rash. And if you drink three bottles of soju about three times a week, In this case, I'm sorry.Acute hepatotoxicity can occur. However, this person's symptoms do not go to pathological hepatotoxicity, but temporary hepatotoxicity often attacks. So after drinking like that, some days it's less, some days it's less, but some days it's more. Sometimes, there are days when it's okay, but in this case, the standard is that you shouldn't keep comforting and rationalizing yourself based on days when it's okay. If you have symptoms even once in a while, you have to live with a feeling that you shouldn't take it. Another good thing to say is that even if it is not hepatotoxic, vasodilation rash can occur. In this case, most of them come toward the upper body. It's right above the sternum in the middle of the chest. It usually comes out around the face, neck, and forehead. But this is not a vasodilation rash, but in my opinion, it comes as hepatotoxicity or similar toxicity.

◆ Choi Soo-young: What about the treatment?

◇Kim Moon-ho: You don't have to drink. You don't have to drink in one shot. In this case, if you receive fluids, it will be diluted and get better. Your skin will be completely fluffy. But if you get an IV, you can just get better with glucose. But that's not going to solve it. As I always tell you, you can't go next to the mud if you don't want to fall into the mud.

◆Choi Soo-young: You shouldn't go near the ink if you don't want to get ink on it. I'll continue with the three-part battery. I was talking with Kim Moon-ho, an oriental doctor, about today's topic and health, and I received a lot of text messages. Dear listener, "I'm in my late fifties. I used to be fine, but now when I wake up after drinking, my face around my eyes gets swollen. Why? ’

◇Kim Moon-ho: This is the vasodilation that I just told you about. In some cases, when we are tired, after eating tomatoes, it swells up like a blister around our mouth. Even after eating raw red pepper, it gets swollen like this. And the skin around the eyes is thin and the blood vessels are very thin.

◆Choi Soo-young: That's very detailed.

◇Kim Moon-ho: That's why some people get bruises while massaging around their eyes like this. As such, the blood vessels around the eyes are very thin and sensitive, so they burst easily. As such, it is a place where allergy-causing substances gather well and seizures occur well. So, even if it's not alcohol or allergy food, if my body didn't receive it that day, and even if it's good food, if my body didn't, it could cause something toxic, causing the most sensitive mouth or eyes to swell up like this. In this case, it's okay to swell up when you sleep after eating ramen. Like the allergies we're talking about, there are cases where it blows like a water balloon. In this case, you actually don't have to drink. Also

◆Choi Soo-young: Do I have to cut this off, too?

◇Kim Moon-ho: Don't think about the past. Men said, 'I mean, in the past, I ran to Jirisan Mountain in two hours. ’ That's a long time ago.

◆Choi Soo-young: Does the old man catch a person?

◇Kim Moon-ho: That's right. My body and liver are different in my 40s and my liver in my late 50s. And the liver is only an organ that holds out, not an eternal organ. It holds out the liver like wrinkles on my face. But my liver, which lasted in my 20s, 30s, and 40s, is at least raw. After 40, when you're in your late 50s. He also has severe menopause. Because the liver has severe menopause, if you go to a fish shop, it's not raw, but dry fish eyes. You have to think of it as that kind of liver. Because these livers cannot detoxify properly, there are by-products in the blood that we usually have from alcohol decomposition. By-product toxic substances caused by alcohol decomposition cause allergic reactions, which come around the eyes, one of the most sensitive blood vessels. It has a very bad effect on kidney blood vessels. And cerebrovascular vessels are very thin and have a lot of sensitive tubes. It would be a big problem if some of them were blocked and pierced. I don't have any symptoms, but I'm already doing it. That's why alcoholic dementia comes. Some brain cells continue to be blocked and pierced and destroyed, and there are no symptoms, but they are drying out little by little like sponges.

◆Choi Soo-young: Why do I feel like I'm lecturing and scolding the director when he's doing health counseling? This is probably just me. Dear listener, "I had gallbladder removal surgery for gallstones two years ago, and I heard that your liver will replace it. How should I follow-up care? ’ He told me.

◇Kim Moon-ho: That's a very good question. There are a lot of people like this. It's not necessarily just because of alcohol, but it's because he had a lot of trouble meeting the wrong owner, but he even drank alcohol. In the case of women, there are quite a lot of gallbladder removal surgery. As the menopause goes on, especially because the metabolism of fat decomposition is not good, you gain weight as the menopause goes on. It's because people who usually wear gowns have hormonal disturbances, hormonal fluctuations. It's too easy to spit it out. You can't spit it out like that. I have to explain it to you. Because the metabolism associated with fat decomposition drops quite rapidly, not only fat liver but also fat accumulates in the gallbladder, breaking down fat in the gallbladder and breaking down fat. Bile is excessively secreted to break down the remaining fat. As it is excessively secreted, dogs get tangled with fat again. That's why it becomes hard and becomes stone. If inflammatory substances accumulate, they become cancerous. So in this case, if you go to a pharmacy, there is a digestive medicine that can help those who have had gallbladder resection. Digestives generally digest spicy flavors like capsaicin, and there are digestive medicines that promote intestinal peristalsis, but other than that, there are nutritional supplements.

◆Choi Soo-young: Nutritional digestive medicine.

◇Kim Moon-ho: Yes, that's right. There are a lot at the pharmacy. There are so many.

◆Choi Soo-young: You can consult.

◇Kim Moon-ho: You can consult at a pharmacy. In this case, in the case of children, even if the gallbladder is usually resected, the liver plays a role of almost 8-90%. The time to get used to it varies a lot. There are usually people who adapt quickly for about six months, and there are people who adapt there even after three or four years. But in this case, if you look backwards, the liver is already doing it for you, but another indigestion may have come. It's not because of the gallbladder, but for other reasons, so there are cases where you keep focusing on it because you've been through one, but you're already doing it all instead of your liver. Symptoms such as indigestion and esophagitis can become more common with age. It can be promoted more or it can cause diseases that didn't exist. You go to the internal medicine department for these things. We usually do endoscopy once a year. You can take this and do a little more and observe it. I personally want to say make sure you do a Helicobacter pylori test.

◆Choi Soo-young: Oh, to this person?

◇Kim Moon-ho: Because there are surprisingly many cases where people with Helicobacter bacteria have gallbladder disease. It's not direct, but it's because it's the same digestive system. I'd like to tell you to take a test. You didn't tell me specifically about your symptoms, but you generally complain of indigestion and gas cham. Most of these things can be very helpful if you are prescribed esophagitis esophagitis or Helicobacter bacteria drugs at the same time at the internal medicine department.

◆Choi Soo-young: Okay. Dear listener, 'The director's son drinks four to five times a week before. I drink it while eating something that's good for the liver. Is it okay? If you point it out every day, there's nothing you can do about your work life. They make excuses like this. ’ I have an additional question, how about taking a hangover cure before and after drinking?

◇Kim Moon-ho: Usually, people think that we're liver recovery agents in cases like that. It's not a liver antidote. This is the topic. What does diuretic mean? I'm taking out the urine. It's a discharge. This repellent expels bile.

◆Choi Soo-young: It doesn't have much to do with the liver. Of course.

◇Kim Moon-ho: It has something to do with liver. Because when the bile is full, it regurgitates and jaundles the liver. So, you have to dissolve this fat, but if the bile is secreted too much, the bile overflows, and if it flows back from Walpa to the liver, the liver melts. It's a lump of fat.

◆Choi Soo-young: It's a bad thing.

◇Kim Moon-ho: That's right. So, most of us have acute jaundice or acute hepatitis with gallbladder. So in this case, it's usually a double agent, so the reason why you eat this is because after drinking a lot of alcohol, your liver is struggling to break down alcohol. It's also hard to have gallbladder. It's an antidote. It's so hard because it's an antidote. Looking at it, the bile is secreted too much. If it is excessively secreted, the bile acts as a detoxification like woongdam, but if it is excessively secreted, it becomes toxic, so it turns into a fatigue substance and harms the liver.

◆Choi Sooyoung: A little bit to prevent that.

◇ Kim Moon-ho: If you drink a lot to get rid of that, there's a lot of bile, so you're going to get rid of this painkiller while you leave.

◆Choi Soo-young: To put it simply, you're trying to lose weight.

◇Kim Moon-ho: It's a temporary measure. So it's the same as taking digestive medicine when you have an upset stomach. It's torture if someone who can't eat three meals a day feeds him 10 meals. The liver is at that point. On top of that, you can keep eating 10 meals even if you keep giving them digestive medicine, don't you have it? The liver is at that point. So don't wake me up with Wuru*. Hangover relief is helpful, but there are a lot of individual differences. That's why I personally tell you to drink milk before you drink. Rather, milk is absorbed by blood vessels from the body after alcohol is absorbed, and then it goes to the liver and detoxifies it quickly, so I can detoxify it anyway. It's hard for my body to detoxify it anyway. So what I'm saying is that it needs to be less absorbed. Milk is regular milk full of milk fat for absorption.

◆Choi Soo-young: That's why I'm telling you to act as a coating.

◇Kim Moon-ho: That's right. So, not low fat. If you drink regular milk full of milk fat and drink it frequently from time to time, it goes down a lot without being absorbed.

◆Choi Soo-young: It's going down. It's just excreted in the urine.

◇Kim Moon-ho: And if it goes down to the small intestine and large intestine and is absorbed, not only does the absorption rate drop a lot, but it also makes it easier to discharge. But if it is absorbed from the stomach and the upper part of the small intestine. I have a lot of headaches, a lot of pressure on my heart, breathing problems, and it's very bad.

◆Choi Soo-young: It's important not to let alcohol get absorbed into your body?

◇Kim Moon-ho: That's why we tell you to eat snacks. But if you eat a lot of snacks, you'll have a hard time the next day. He didn't eat snacks, he ate. That's why you eat a lot even though you're drinking.

◆ Choi Soo-young: It's harder.

◇Kim Moon-ho: I'm full and I'm in pain all night, so my whole body is using dragons. You have to rest your intestines all night. But how much do you think a meal you ate in the middle of the night while rationalizing nonstop bothers your stomach, small intestine, and large intestine? That's why the intestines are 12 meters long all night. It's a 12-meter muscle. Jang means they ran a marathon because they worked out all night. You're tired all night, right?

◆Choi Soo-young: Listeners, I'm a man in my mid-40s. It's been 7 years since I fell asleep relying on alcohol every day, and I usually drink strong alcohol, but I usually drink about 2 cups of beer. If you have a medical examination, there is no abnormality except for a slightly higher liver level, but recently, it is slightly dark and I often pee in brown. Do you think there's a problem? ’ Please explain this briefly.

◇Kim Moon-ho: Brown urine is not desirable. Brown urine is generally not bleeding in the lower part of the bladder, but microbleeding in the glomerular or renal side descends from the urethra and comes out this ripe and teabronish. So brown is not desirable. In this case, you must do a kidney test. It's often yellow or green because of food. In the case of brown, it's almost like blood. Usually, red urine may come from a slight tear in the urinary tract, but it can happen sometimes. If you get hurt. But in the case of brown or teabrown, it is slightly bleeding from the top, so you need to get tested. You must be having a hard time buying stress or other things. I'm sorry, but I don't know what pain I'm in, but it's not good for you or your family. If you're having a hard time, drink a drink and go to sleep. Please refrain from doing this.

◆Choi Soo-young: I would appreciate it if you could keep in mind what the director said. Today, we looked into the health of battery technology. We had a detailed conversation with Kim Moon-ho, a celebrity in the Korean medicine industry. Sir, thank you for your words today.