What would happen if we didn't have a liver?!


Question: Please hel im doing this for a school grade


Answers: Please hel im doing this for a school grade

If we didn't have a liver we'd be dead. This can be a big essay topic but I'll try to cover some topics that you will be able to expand on. W/o a liver we won't have any metabolism, no bile, won't be able to process a lot of drugs in our body. Usually the drugs taken orally (by mouth) are processed in the liver first and then distributed into our bloodstream then to the rest of our body. If the liver didn't processed it we'd overdose on a lot of our current drugs.
Also 90%+ of alcohol is broken down by the liver so technically one or two drinks will kill us if we didn't have a liver. We'd have bare to none metabolism. No secretion of certain chemicals in our body would kill us. The liver also helps out with our immune system. Storage of protein. We couldn't detox a lot of the chemicals in our body which those stuff would go into our kidneys and destroy out kidneys. We'd all be in a very yellow tone due to inability to break down toxins.

Also another fun fact is the liver can regrow. As long as we have 25%+ of our liver it can grow back.

you would die.

your liver is used to filter your blood.

The liver acts as a filter for blood. If your liver/kidneys weren't working, the blood would get loaded down with toxins. That's why serious alcoholics usually suffer from liver failure(cirrhosis) they drink so much alcohol, the body & liver cannot filter it all out. When the liver isn't functioning properly, a person might turn jaundice or yellow because the toxins are backing up in their body instead of being eliminated. Hope that helps.

without a liver, you will have a hard time digesting food and will die.

Anything that you would consume, would kill you if not for your liver.





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