Living a healthy life and feeling hale and hearty is something every individual requires. And until you are healthy you seldom would have the time to think of different organs in your body which is working around the clock to make you feel so.
One such very important organ that works 24 X 7 without complaining and performing more than 500 vital processes in your body is the Liver.
Liver
Liver is the largest internal organ in your body and when compared to the metabolic activities of all the other organs, liver is the most complex and multifunctional.
Weighing around 1.46 kg, liver forms the largest glandular organ in the body and is the second largest organ after the skin.
It acts like a big hormone manufacturing factory and secretes a number of hormones; controls blood sugar level, neutralizes toxins produced during various catabolic processes and also fights infection.
Iron Storage
The main Function of Liver is to scavenge the various nutrients resent in the food we take such as vitamins and minerals and store them. It then supplies these nutrients in a regulated manner to various parts of the body through blood.
Detoxifies
The liver is made up of around 10% of fat and has a capacity of taking in the impurities from the blood which is left behind by various unhealthy habits such as consumption of alcohol or smoking, fatty foods and so on.
In fact Liver is very important for the very survival because without it the impurities in the blood will stay in the blood and the chances of survival per se would be affected.
Generation of RBC
The Red Blood Corpuscles does not get generated de novo the Liver functions as the RBC generator, hence it is understandable the presence of liver in all vertebrates, including humans. As soon as the liver is formed in the second trimester of pregnancy it begins generating blood. This is a very important part of the growth of a baby in the womb.
At any particular time, your liver would have almost 10% of the blood present in the body which is pumped through the various arteries at the rate of 1.4 liters per minute.
Regeneration
When we speak of transplant of organ, we generally speak of transplanting a whole organ; however it is quite different in liver. Liver transplant basically involves transplanting a portion of liver from one person to another. This is possible due to the property of liver to regenerate itself from a small portion.
Thus when a small portion of liver is transplanted from a person, the transplanted portion would regenerate the remaining part giving rise to a new liver and the portion left behind in the donor also regenerates itself making it possible for both the donor and recipient to have normal sized, fully functional liver.
Processes Hormone
Various hormones such as estrogen and testosterone are catabolised into bile in liver. Bile is then transported to the stomach to carry out the digestion of fats. Thus without Liver there would be a lot of fat stored in your body.
Liver is an important organ that is irreplaceable in the body and needs to be taken good care of.
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