You can not live without this organ

What does our liver do ? And how important and vital it is to our body ? Here is a short article about our precious organ, the liver.

There's an organ inside each one of us that weighs around 1.4 kilograms and works for 24 hours a day non stop. This organ is what we call the liver which is the heaviest organ in our body, and one of the most crucial.

This industrious structure simultaneously acts as a storehouse, a manufacturing hub, and a processing plant. And each of these functions involve so many important subtasks that without the liver, our bodies would simply stop working.

One of the liver's main functions is to filter the body's blood, which it receives regularly from two sources: the hepatic artery delivers blood from the heart, while the hepatic portal vein (HPV) brings it from the intestine. The blood delivered fills the liver with nutrients, that it then sorts, processes and stores with the help of thousands of tiny structures, known as lobules.

Both flows also deliver the oxygen that the liver needs to function. The blood that is received from the intestine contains carbohydrates, fats, and vitamins and other nutrients dissolved in it from the food we consume. These need to be processed in different ways.

For carbohydrates, the liver breaks them down and converts them into sugars for the body to use as energy when the filtered blood is sent back out. the body doesn’t have to use all the nutrients we give it immediately so when that happens, the liver holds some back, and stacks them in its storage facility. This facility works like a pantry for future cases when the body might be in need of nutrients. But the blood flowing into the liver isn't always full of good things we are in need of. It also contains toxins and byproducts that the body can't use. And it’s the liver’s role to monitor these strictly. When it detects a useless or toxic substance, it either converts it into a product that can't hurt the body or isolates it and Throw it away, sending it through the kidneys and intestine to be excreted. Of course, we wouldn't consider the liver a factory if it didn't also manufacture things. This organ makes everything from various blood plasma proteins that transport fatty acids and help form blood clots, to the cholesterol that helps the body create hormones. It also makes vitamin D and substances that help digestion. But one of its most vital products is bile.

Like an eco-friendly treatment plant, the liver uses cells called hepatocytes to convert toxic waste products into this bitter greenish liquid. As it's produced, bile is funneled into a small container below the liver, called the gallbladder, before being trickled into the intestine to help break down fats, destroy microbes, and neutralize extra stomach acid. Bile also helps carry other toxins and byproducts from the liver out of the body.

so as you can see, the liver is an extremely efficient industrial site, and an important organ in our body, performing multiple tasks that are interlinked to each other. But such a complex system needs to be kept Working smoothly by keeping it healthy and not overloading it with more toxins than it can handle. And this is where our diet plays a big role, by avoiding foods and drinks that could harm our precious liver such as alcohol or even highly sugary meals and by providing a balanced healthy diet full of fruits, Vegetables and of course plenty of water helping keeping this vital organ all safe and sane.

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