26/08/2024
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Fascinating Facts About Your Liver
The liver is the body’s largest internal organ. And it’s undoubtedly one of the hardest workers. The liver is usually associated with detoxification, but it’s essential for numerous vital functions. Here are just some of its most important jobs:
• Converts the nutrients in your diet into substances the body can use. It also stores many nutrients (like iron and vitamin A) so they can be supplied to the body’s cells when needed.
• Produces proteins that, along with vitamin K, play an important role in blood clotting.
• Breaks down old and damaged blood cells.
• Plays a central role in all metabolic processes in the body.
In fat metabolism, liver cells break down fat to produce energy. It also secretes bile into the small intestine to further aid in the breakdown and absorption of fats.
In carbohydrate metabolism, the liver helps regulate blood glucose to keep it constant. After a meal, when blood glucose (sugar) is high, the liver can remove glucose from the blood and store it as glycogen. When blood glucose levels decline, the liver breaks down glycogen into glucose to release into the blood. The liver can also make new glucose from lactic acid and amino acids in a process known as gluconeogenesis.
This is especially important in times of prolonged fasting. Hormones in the pancreas—insulin and glucagon—direct these processes in the liver.
In protein metabolism, the liver changes amino acids in food so they can be either used as energy, or made into carbohydrates and fats.
The liver also converts toxic substances into harmless ones and makes sure they are released from the body. In other words, it is one of the body’s main detoxifiers.
It does this important job by:
• Filtering the blood to remove large toxins. A healthy liver clears almost 100 percent of bacteria and other toxins from blood before it enters general circulation.
• Producing and secreting bile. Bile serves as a carrier to eliminate fat-soluble toxins and cholesterol from the body.
• Breaking down unwanted or toxic chemicals. This usually occurs in two steps, known as Phase I and Phase II.
Be nice to your liver. It has a lot of critical jobs to do. Read the following links to learn more about how the liver detoxifies and why treating your liver right is so important.
https://askthescientists.com/liver-facts/
https://askthescientists.com/.../liver-detoxification.../
https://askthescientists.com/qa/glutathione/