Start your day with quality proteins, fats, and carbohydrates, rather than sweets. This way, you protect your liver and pancreas.
How do we begin the day? With an infusion of energy. Energy comes from various foods, not just sweet products. Daily consumption of sweets, even in the morning, is associated with increased fats in the blood.
We wake up. Billions of neurons quickly demand sugar. We can provide it immediately through something sweet, but the biological costs are too high, or we can provide it slowly through a diverse meal.
Antonela Burlacu, primary care physician in diabetes and nutrition diseases: Morning hunger shows us that we ate correctly the day before; if we ate too late, I have a heavy stomach, and if it’s full in the morning, normally I am not hungry.
There are perfect connections between the brain, liver, pancreas, and intestines. We disrupt them with sugar, eating to calm ourselves and feel better.
Laura Iliescu, internist at the Fundeni Clinical Institute: We think nothing happens; well, I ate a roll or a cake, nothing happens, but I disrupt this endocrine system and the nervous system with the hypothalamus, and it no longer regulates.
All abnormal processes lead to inflammation. Let’s look at the liver.
Here, fat cells appear. This is because sugar and fats from food can no longer be properly analyzed by this organ. The food aggression continues. A croissant in the morning, some cookies, a piece of chocolate. The next step is inflammation in the liver.
Now is the moment for dangerous cells to activate in the liver. They are called stellate cells. Normal liver cells are gradually replaced by stellate cells. The liver can no longer perform its functions correctly.
Laura Iliescu, internist at the Fundeni Clinical Institute: Everything changes, inflammation appears, and then these stellate cells migrate, having some extensions, some little legs, because they secrete substances that activate it and, in turn, secrete substances that stimulate collagen. This fibrosis appears, which on the skin looks like a scar, but in the liver appears as a nodule.
Stellate cells do not allow the liver, the main energy factory of the body, to produce energy. They practically block all functions.
The liver suffers, and so does the gallbladder or the cystic duct. It fills with fat, and gallstones appear. Most of them are cholesterol stones. They have been formed from sugar all day long. And the bacteria in the intestines are overwhelmed by too many doses of sugar and become vulnerable to harmful, pathogenic bacteria.
