Hepatitis
Hepatitis affects millions of people around the world in its various forms, each year there are more cases of infection within the United States alone. Hepatitis A affects 32,000 new individuals each year, and 46,000 new hepatitis B virus infections. Each year those with the hepatitis C virus reach 19,000 new infections alone and about 170 million people worldwide. The hepatitis D virus infects more than 10 million people around the world while hepatitis E is a serious problem in Asia, Africa and Central America while rare cases are found in the United States. Grueling numbers yet a hard hitting reality for those that are affected by it.
Hepatitis hits one of most complex and largest internal organs in your body, the liver. The livers ability to regulate fats, sugar and protein, manufacture cholesterol, digestive enzymes, as well as detoxify your blood can be done by no other part of your body. Bilirubin is a compound formed during the breakdown of old red blood cells. A healthy liver mixes the bilirubin with bile and passes it to the small intestine to be removed from the body, an unhealthy liver no longer has the ability to process and filter bilirubin as it should. Those that have been diagnosed with hepatitis have a liver that is unhealthy. Hepatitis literally means “liver inflammation”, the disease takes on various forms some more serious than others. (The breakdown of each form is located under the heading “Questions about Hepatitis”).
No matter what form it takes, hepatitis can and will permanently change your lifestyle in one shape or another. For most people this is extremely difficult, for most are use to living full active lives. Each case is different, it has the ability to drastically slow you down becoming permanently life altering, or once it is under control, can allow you to live a pretty normal healthy life. The key is learning to listen to how the disease affects your body, not everybody is the same. If you listen to how it reacts individually you are better able to treat what it is doing, rather than hoping that the quick fix treatment will quickly remedy the situation. The great thing about hepatitis is that you have several options to assist your treatment; there is not just one form of treatment. However not treating or not listening to your condition is NOT an option. Left untreated hepatitis, no matter what the form it is in, will take control of you and with some forms can be at a high cost, your life.
We have worked with many individuals and have seen how hepatitis can affect the body for the better and worse. It is our hope by way of this website that we can point you to some of those options and forms of treatment that can assist you to the best recovery and best quality of life possible. Please be sure to sign up for our newsletter so we can keep you posted of new findings that have proved beneficial for many people.
*photo credit from Spaceodissey
Hepatitis hits one of most complex and largest internal organs in your body, the liver. The livers ability to regulate fats, sugar and protein, manufacture cholesterol, digestive enzymes, as well as detoxify your blood can be done by no other part of your body. Bilirubin is a compound formed during the breakdown of old red blood cells. A healthy liver mixes the bilirubin with bile and passes it to the small intestine to be removed from the body, an unhealthy liver no longer has the ability to process and filter bilirubin as it should. Those that have been diagnosed with hepatitis have a liver that is unhealthy. Hepatitis literally means “liver inflammation”, the disease takes on various forms some more serious than others. (The breakdown of each form is located under the heading “Questions about Hepatitis”).
No matter what form it takes, hepatitis can and will permanently change your lifestyle in one shape or another. For most people this is extremely difficult, for most are use to living full active lives. Each case is different, it has the ability to drastically slow you down becoming permanently life altering, or once it is under control, can allow you to live a pretty normal healthy life. The key is learning to listen to how the disease affects your body, not everybody is the same. If you listen to how it reacts individually you are better able to treat what it is doing, rather than hoping that the quick fix treatment will quickly remedy the situation. The great thing about hepatitis is that you have several options to assist your treatment; there is not just one form of treatment. However not treating or not listening to your condition is NOT an option. Left untreated hepatitis, no matter what the form it is in, will take control of you and with some forms can be at a high cost, your life.
We have worked with many individuals and have seen how hepatitis can affect the body for the better and worse. It is our hope by way of this website that we can point you to some of those options and forms of treatment that can assist you to the best recovery and best quality of life possible. Please be sure to sign up for our newsletter so we can keep you posted of new findings that have proved beneficial for many people.
*photo credit from Spaceodissey
