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Appreciate Your Liver, Why You Should Appreciate Your Liver and How

1,137 views · Published 21 February 2018 · 12:04 · Indexed 29 October 2026

Channel: Healthy Lifestyle · 2018 · Education

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Why You Should Appreciate Your Liver and How.

Our liver is pretty incredible. It sits just behind the ribs in the upper right hand side of your abdomen and it’s also the body’s second largest organ (after our skin) which makes it one of the most important, yet we hardly talk about it!

Why you should love your liver…
It filters through everything we eat and what we absorb through our skin
It regulates the fat we eat
Helps balance our hormones
It’s a natural detoxifyer
Filters our blood
Makes proteins and cholesterol
Assists in our digestion too
It’s pretty amazing all the things the liver does… It even has an incredible ability to function even if part of it is diseased. It can also regenerate and create new liver tissue if needed. Your liver always has your back constantly battling bad guys so it’s our job to make sure we’re not overloading it. It’s main role is to get rid of toxins and metabolise drugs (things such as prescription medications, panadol, the pill, alcohol, caffeine) and when we take a lot of these substances daily (now that they’re so readily available to us) it’s easy to appreciate the strain and load your liver can take on at times.
Detoxification: the lowdown
The liver works tirelessly all day every day to detoxify the body and it does this via two phases. Phase I is where it takes fat soluble toxins, and phase II metabolises them through 6 difference stages to water soluble waste products which is then eliminated through the body. You can imagine, if the liver is overburdened with toxins, drugs, processed foods, chemicals and fats (such as trans fats which are not good for the body) these phases can get congested, stuck, pushed through the wrong route and be metabolized completely differently.

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