Your liver is an amazing, life-creating, and often ignored chemical refinery that converts the food you ingest each day into energy that empowers your body to function 24/7. Without pain to warn you when your liver is being attacked by hepatitis viruses, these viruses silently destroy hundreds of its hardworking, life-creating, and supporting cells—cells that generate the energy you depend on to get out of bed each day, get dressed, and go to work.
Hepatitis
Untreated and ignored hepatitis infections also destroy the liver’s cancer-fighting cells, leaving patients more vulnerable to one or more of 18 liver-related types of cancer and other diseases. Tragically, our silent, noncomplaining liver has no way of alerting us of life-threatening hepatitis viruses.
If hepatitis is not treated and cured, these viruses will continue to destroy hundreds of liver cells that create the energy your body uses to get up and keep going each day—plus hundreds more cells that create strong muscles and bones, help you digest your food, stop cuts from bleeding, protect you from germs, and even create sex hormones you take for granted.
However, these precious cancer-fighting and energy-producing liver cells can be damaged beyond repair by toxins in just 2 alcoholic drinks a day. Beyond that, fatigue, mental fog, and reduced immunity can begin to affect your ability to function, care for your family, and maintain employment. Sadly, few people are ever taught how vital the liver is. Public education, early testing, and vaccination can prevent countless deaths.
