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8 interesting facts about your liver
If I ask you to name an agency in your body will the first will turn on your head?
Heart, constantly pumping blood around our body and a symbol of love around the world?
But maybe not poor liver.
Liver is a big bloody body!
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In a full adult man, it is really the size of a soccer ball.
Located just below your ribs on the right side of your body, the average liver weighs 3lbs (1.5kg), making it the second largest agency next to the skin.
It is a wedge shape, forming four lobes, reddish brown and will ruby to touch.
At any point, the liver contains 10% of all blood in your body and filtering it at a speed of about 1.4 liters per minute.
Liver is a person who has many serious tasks, implementing more than 500 different roles.
Have you ever wondered how food we eat for us energy?
The carbohydrates we eat, found in the foods like bread and potatoes, are glucose down the liver, and are also stored here as glycogen.
Not only that but also in an emergency glucose, the liver can quickly convert its liver store
It acts as a filter to remove toxins such as alcohol from our blood and plays an important part of fighting infections.
Liver contains more than half of the body's macrophages - white blood cells operate by destroying
It is also broken and removes the old cells of the body, creating proteins to coagulate, and stores many different vitamins and minerals.
Unlike many other agencies in our bodies, such as heart, lungs and kidneys, scientists have not been able to design a machine that can execute all the functions of the liver.
So take care of your liver children!
Bile is manufactured and secreted by the liver.
You know that the golden brown liquid appears when you have a particularly annoying or hangover stomach error?
Those things are honey, and up to one liter of it are produced by adult liver every day.
Although it is not a particularly pleasant liquid to deal outside the body, it has a very important role inside the body broken and absorbs fat.
After you eat, the honey has been formed in the liver and collected in small pipes pass
It works by emulsifying any fat molecules, preventing them to synthesize them into large clusters.
The dispersion of fat molecules because this emulsification also brings an increase in surface area to be absorbed faster by the intestine.
Liver leads a double life;
The routes are a group of cells with work specializing in manufacturing and releasing substances that perform a specific FUNCT
Biliary production fell a lot in this category, technically making liver a line as well as an agency!
Liver is the best friend of the brain
What are you asking, what is the big problem with glucose?
Well, it is the main energy source for our brain cells, and without it, our brain will quickly stop working properly, and finally die.
So in the times we lack glucose in their systems, for example between meals or during exercise, it's a good thing that we have liver to convert some stores
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This situation can cause some unpleasant symptoms such as convulsions, mud statement, confusion and forgetting, and may even be coma.
Some drugs will be useless, or completely toxic, no liver to handle them.
You may be surprised to know that if there is no liver, then the pain relieves you just turned on for that blister
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Some drugs, such as chemotherapy, extremely harmful to body tissues and must be specified in a perfect balance dose.
You need enough medicine so that the liver does not remove it from the blood before it has a useful effect, but the liver is not too much for the liver can not remove it qu
The liver is Wolverine of the agencies.
Perhaps the most famous liver feature is the ability to live like its superhero.
The liver can completely regret at least 25% in a few weeks.
This is why liver sponsors can donate half of the liver for a person who needs implants and completely recover.
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Telomerase is responsible for producing "telomeres" - DNA strings are at the end of the chromosome to protect them from damage but shorten during cell copying.
After many cells copies, the last telomeres disappeared and the ends of actual encrypted genetic materials became vulnerable, causing the physical changes you saw when you get older.
However, because some liver cells have higher telomerase levels, they can keep their telomeres longer, protect chromosomes and thus allow more cell copying, creating renewable effects
Ancient Greeks were fascinated by liver.
We all know ancient Greeks are a smart bundle, and there is evidence that they are aware of the reborn assets of the liver even without today's modern technology.
In Greek mythology, Zeus punish Titan Prometheus to steal fire and put it for mankind.
He bind him to a rock and sent an eagle every day to eat his liver, then returned to restore the next day, and the next day.
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"Hepatitis" is hepatitis, and the term "liver" refers to anything related to the liver.
For example, "liver vein" is a ship with blood from gi to liver.
It's fair to say that we certainly didn't give the liver it deserves.
Keep your liver happiness by leading a healthy lifestyle including eating a balanced diet and regular exercise - even if it can grow again, it deserves to take care!
