Liver Loving with Hepatic Herbs

Our primary organ of detoxification
Without question, the liver is one of our most vital organs, perhaps second only to the lungs and the heart. The liver plays a leading role in keeping us alive and is critical to detoxify the body. We can live with just one kidney or a single lung, and we can do without the spleen entirely. We cannot, however, survive without the functioning liver that endlessly filters and detoxifies the blood. The liver also plays a significant role in digestion and metabolism, protein synthesis, essential enzyme and hormone production and the breaking down and recycling of tired blood cells. It provides our primary source of available biological energy because it regulates glycogen storage; converting sugar into glycogen and stores it for use by the muscles in the form of glucose energy.

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