Weighing in at around 3 pounds, the liver is the body’s second largest organ; only the skin is larger and heavier.
Estimates regarding the organ's total number of functions vary, but textbooks generally cite it being around 500.
The primary functions of the liver are:
Bile production and excretion
Excretion of bilirubin, cholesterol, hormones, and drugs
Metabolism of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates
Enzyme activation
Storage of glycogen, vitamins, and minerals
Synthesis of plasma proteins, such as albumin, and clotting factors
Blood detoxification and purification
These functions make the liver a vital organ without which the tissues of the body would quickly die from lack of energy and nutrients.
Due to these important activities, the liver is exposed to a number of insults and is one of the body's organs most subject to injury.
Your liver is resilient and can do a remarkable job of healing and re-growing cells. The liver can replace massive amounts of damaged tissue with new cells, relatively rapidly.
The complication comes when the cells can’t regenerate completely, or the damaging factors continue bombarding the liver without it having a chance to heal properly.
This is most often attributed to alcoholism, or a viral load issue like hepatitis. This can lead to actual SCARRING of the liver which is known as cirrhosis.
It’s incredible healing prowess is indicative of just how important it is to your body.
There is currently no way to compensate for the absence of liver function in the long term, although liver dialysis techniques can be used in the short term and that's why you need to keep your live healthy.
GLUTATHIOWeighing in at around 3 pounds, the liver is the body’s second largest organ; only the skin is larger and heavier.
Estimates regarding the organ's total number of functions vary, but textbooks generally cite it being around 500.
The primary functions of the liver are:
Bile production and excretion
Excretion of bilirubin, cholesterol, hormones, and drugs
Metabolism of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates
Enzyme activation
Storage of glycogen, vitamins, and minerals
Synthesis of plasma proteins, such as albumin, and clotting factors
Blood detoxification and purification
These functions make the liver a vital organ without which the tissues of the body would quickly die from lack of energy and nutrients.
Due to these important activities, the liver is exposed to a number of insults and is one of the body's organs most subject to injury.
Your liver is resilient and can do a remarkable job of healing and re-growing cells. The liver can replace massive amounts of damaged tissue with new cells, relatively rapidly.
The complication comes when the cells can’t regenerate completely, or the damaging factors continue bombarding the liver without it having a chance to heal properly.
This is most often attributed to alcoholism, or a viral load issue like hepatitis. This can lead to actual SCARRING of the liver which is known as cirrhosis.
It’s incredible healing prowess is indicative of just how important it is to your body.
There is currently no way to compensate for the absence of liver function in the long term, although liver dialysis techniques can be used in the short term and that's why you need to keep your live healthy.
GLUTATHIONE BENEFITS LIVER HEALTH
Critically linked to the ability for your liver to detoxify is having adequate glutathione levels. In fact when your body has adequate glutathione the highest concentrations are found in the lungs, liver, and brain.
Your liver, having one of the highest concentrations of glutathione in the body, also endures a great deal of damaging factors from pollution, diet, exposure to the wrong yeasts,
Every time your liver is exposed to excess chemicals, pollutants, or toxins, your liver concentrations of glutathion drops considerably.
This is in line with anti-oxidant theory, where the chemicals like alcohol cause damaging oxidative stress and inflammation, so glutathione gets used up combating the reactive oxygen species.
Increasing intracellular glutathione benefits liver cells by restoring the depleted glutathione the inflamed liver is using up to protect itself.
Maintaining adequate glutathione levels essentially gives your liver a break from having to deal with the onslaught of attacks all by itself, giving it more room to heal, and perform it’s myriad of OTHER important health functions.
Imagine if your liver was so healthy what all those cells had to manage was fat metabolism, and healthy enzyme reactions.
A healthy liver is the key to an efficient and healthy body.
References
http://www.innerbody.com/image_digeov/card10-new2.html
http://www.rnceus.com/lf/lffx.html
http://glutathionepathway.com/glutathione-liver-health/NE BENEFITS LIVER HEALTH
Critically linked to the ability for your liver to detoxify is having adequate glutathione levels. In fact when your body has adequate glutathione the highest concentrations are found in the lungs, liver, and brain.
Your liver, having one of the highest concentrations of glutathione in the body, also endures a great deal of damaging factors from pollution, diet, exposure to the wrong yeasts,
Every time your liver is exposed to excess chemicals, pollutants, or toxins, your liver concentrations of glutathion drops considerably.
This is in line with anti-oxidant theory, where the chemicals like alcohol cause damaging oxidative stress and inflammation, so glutathione gets used up combating the reactive oxygen species.
Increasing intracellular glutathione benefits liver cells by restoring the depleted glutathione the inflamed liver is using up to protect itself.
Maintaining adequate glutathione levels essentially gives your liver a break from having to deal with the onslaught of attacks all by itself, giving it more room to heal, and perform it’s myriad of OTHER important health functions.
Imagine if your liver was so healthy what all those cells had to manage was fat metabolism, and healthy enzyme reactions.
A healthy liver is the key to an efficient and healthy body.
References
http://www.innerbody.com/image_digeov/card10-new2.html