Fatty Liver
This large, reddish-brown organ sits in the upper right side of your abdomen, just below your diaphragm.
What is the liver?
This network in your body breaks down the food you eat, extracts vital nutrients for energy, and expels the remaining waste.
What is the digestive system?
This two-word term describes how well your stomach and intestines work to digest food, fight off germs, and keep your body feeling good.
What is gut health?
This simple, 20-second habit using warm water and soap is the absolute best way to stop the spread of cold and flu germs.
What is washing your hands?
This network of organ includes your nose, windpipe, and lungs. The most common entry point for viruses into the human body.
What is the respiratory/ pulmonary system?
This popular social beverage is broken down by the liver to prevent toxicity in your body.
What is alcohol (ethanol)?
This muscular, J-shaped organ acts as a chemical blender, using hydrochloric acid to break down your meals.
What is the stomach?
These are the live, good bacteria found in foods like yogurt that you eat to help keep your belly healthy and running smoothly.
What are probiotics?
Doctors recommend getting this quick protective shot every single autumn to help your body fight off the most common winter virus.
What is a flu shot (or flu vaccine)?
This is the invisible waste gas that your body creates when it makes energy, and it is what you blow out of your mouth every time you exhale.
What is carbon dioxide?
This medical term describes inflammation of the liver, which can be caused by excessive alcohol consumption, a high-fat diet, or viral infections.
What is hepatitis?
Procedure where doctors use a tiny camera to look inside your large intestine to check for polyps.
What is a colonoscopy?
Using these specific products and harmful chemicals can severely damage your stomach lining, cause painful ulcers, and ruin your gut health.
Try to give me more than one.
What are cigarettes, vapes, and substance use
Unlike a cold that starts slowly, this severe winter illness usually hits you all at once with a high fever, body aches, and deep exhaustion.
What is the flu (influenza)?
This harmful habit breathes hot, toxic smoke into your windpipe, which paralyzes and completely destroys the tiny, clean-sweeping cilia hairs.
What is smoking?
Chronic liver inflammation from alcohol abuse or fatty liver disease can lead to this condition, characterized by irreversible scarring of the organ
What is cirrhosis?
This chemical found in tobacco relaxes the valve at the bottom of your food pipe, allowing burning stomach acid to splash up and cause heartburn.
What is nicotine?
Your gut is home to most of the cells that fight off sickness, so keeping it healthy helps protect this entire germ-fighting network.
Hint another system in your body, works when you get sick
What is the immune system?
To stop the spread of winter sickness, you should regularly wipe down these three specific, highly-touched objects in your home or workplace where cold and flu germs love to hide.
What are door handles, light switches, and cell phones?
These are the tiny, broom-like hairs lining your windpipe that constantly sweep dirt and mucus away from your lungs to keep them clean.
What are cilia?
The liver is the body's ultimate multi-tasker, performing more than this many vital functions every day.
What is 500?
Tucked behind the stomach, this organ secretes digestive enzymes into the small intestine and produces insulin to regulate blood sugar.
What is the pancreas?
This number of massive family of tiny microbes and good germs that help you digest food and fight disease.
What is 100 trillion?
Medical name for the flu.
Starts with In
What is Influenza?
Smoking cigarettes forces this invisible, poisonous gas straight into your lungs, which steals the space your blood needs to carry fresh oxygen.
What is carbon monoxide?