The liver is intimately involved in almost every part of the body's processes. It has four particularly crucial functions:
1) Fuel Management. The liver is vital to the management of the three major
fuels used by the body: carbohydrate, fat, and protein.
2) Nitrogen Excretion. The liver is the only organ capable of removing nitrogen
from the body. Nitrogen is a basic component of proteins, the basic building
blocks for most of the body's substances. As a result, the regulation, synthesis,
and breakdown of protein - and thus life and health - is wholly dependent on
liver function.
3) Water balance. The liver creates many of the components of blood - including those that control the distribution of water between the blood, cells, and tissues.
Two views of the human liver.
4) Detoxification. The body is constantly subjected to a variety of dangerous
substances, both natural toxins (like alcohol, metals, and so forth) and man-made
toxins (like chemicals, pollutants, and pharmaceutical agents). The liver has
the unique ability to alter or break down these toxins, protecting the rest
of the body.
Because of its central role, liver disease strikes at the very heart of the body's functions and processes, and can be life-threatening. You cannot live without a liver.
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