Understanding the Four Stages of Liver Disease

Your liver is like a busy cleaning factory for your body, removing bad stuff and helping you use food.

Sometimes, too many bad things, like junk food, too much alcohol, or medicines, can make the factory sick.

First, it gets swollen and angry (inflammation).

If it stays that way, scars start to form, like old patches on the factory floor (fibrosis).

If the scars get really bad, the factory can't do its job well (cirrhosis), and you might see yellow skin.

The worst stage is when the factory is too damaged to work at all (end-stage liver disease), which is very dangerous and needs immediate help.

It's important to take care of your liver early to prevent these problems.