- What is?
- The largest gland and solid organ
- Dark reddish brown in color
- Weigh some:
- 1.8kg in men
- 1.3kg in women
- Holds approximately 13% of total blood supply at any given moment
- Performs over 5,000 important functions
- Divided into 2 main lobes
- Larger right, smaller left
- Further divided into approximately 100,000 small lobes or lobules
- 60% made up of liver cells called hepatocytes
- Average life span of 150 days
- Approximately 202,000 in every milligram of liver tissue
- Receives blood supply via heptic artery and portal vein (which transport nutrients from intestine or gut.
- Absorbs nutrients an detoxify
- Remove harmful substances from blood
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Where is?
- In the area under the ribs on the right side of the body
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What for?
- Manufacture (synthesize) proteins
- To help maintain the volume of blood and blood clotting factors
- Synthesize, store and process fats
- Including fatty acids (used for energy) and cholesterol
- Metabolize and store carbohydrates
- Which are used as the source for the sugar (glucose) in the blood that red blood cells and brain use
- Form and secrete bile
- That contains bile acids to aid in the intestinal absorption of fats and the fat soluble vitamin A, D, E, and K
- Eliminate the potentially harmful biochemical products produced by the body (such as ammonia from the breakdown of proteins) by metabolizing or secreting
- Combating infectious in the body
- Important function
- Producing quick energy
- Breakdown food and convert it into energy
- Carbohydrates (such as bread and potatoes) are broken down to glucose
- Stored mainly in the liver and muscles as glycogen
- When energy is required, liver converts the stored glycogen back to glucose for the body to use
- Helps get rid of waste products
- Waste products not excreted by kidneys are remove from blood by liver
- Fighting infections
- Particularly infections arising from bowel
SAHRED FROM:
How to treat your liver right?
Sanofi Aventis (M) Sdn Bhd
StarSpecial Tuesday 12 march 3013
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