Every day, Doctor Jimmy Mohamed answers your questions and reacts to the news on health.

This Tuesday, he warns of the need to screen for fatty liver disease from which, sometimes without knowing it, 10 million French people suffer.

The doctor recalls that it is possible to detect it with a simple blood test.

It is an organ that we all know but which we ultimately ignore almost everything, unlike the heart or the brain.

And yet the functioning of the liver is quite extraordinary.

In his column Our Health, doctor Jimmy Mohamed returns Tuesday to this particular organ, which can also get sick, and explains how to prevent what is called fatty liver disease.

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What is fatty liver disease?

"The liver is 20 to 10 centimeters and weighs 1.5 kilograms. It is reddish-brown in color and has the consistency of a sponge. It is located in the belly, on the right side of the abdominal cavity. . Its functions are extraordinary: it filters all of your blood 300 times a day. And if ever we decided to destroy two thirds of this organ, it could grow back and even reach 80% of its volume and 100% of its capacities in a few minutes weeks ", explains doctor Jimmy Mohamed. 

The problem is that a diet that is too fatty or too sweet tends to make it fat, to fatten it and cause what is called fatty liver disease: “This disease affects 10 million French people. , they don't have any symptoms. They don't have pain, so they don't know they have this fatty liver disease. Yet this fat will cause inflammation. And this inflammation will be responsible for NASH, soda sickness, which itself leads to cirrhosis, ”he continues.

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How to diagnose it? 

In other words, you can destroy your liver simply through your food and what you drink, without swallowing a single drop of alcohol.

But don't panic, it is possible to be diagnosed quite easily: "What you can do with a master tape is to measure your waist circumference. If it exceeds 100 cm in men and 88 cm in women. woman, this means that you probably have visceral fat depositing on your organs and that you are probably at risk. The second thing is that it is possible to detect it with a simple blood test prescribed by your doctor for a liver test. "

How to treat her?

The good news is that fatty liver disease is reversible.

To get rid of it, doctor Jimmy Mohamed simply advises to practice physical activity and to pay attention to what you eat.

"This makes it possible to totally regress the elision and therefore to save your liver," he concludes.