Liver is largest gland of human body. The weight of this organ is from 3 to4 lb. Liver is located in the right upper area of the abdominal cavity and its color is dark red.

Importance of the liver for the organism

The liver is an extremely multipurpose organ and performs a great variety of functions. The liver absorbs various substances from the blood and releases waste materials and poisons. It is a useful reservoir of glycogen, vitamins, and minerals. The liver synthesizes many important proteins and enzymes. This organ takes part in the production of blood clotting factors such as prothrombin and fibrinogen, as well as the anticoagulant heparin. The liver removes the nitrogen of amino acids and uses it to create new proteins from carbohydrates and fats. Moreover, the liver can produce carbohydrate from fat and protein. The liver can as well create fat, store it and then discharge into the blood in the form of fatty acids used for energetic purposes. The liver takes part in cholesterol synthesis. The liver participates in endocrine function excreting various hormones such as estrogen and steroids. This organ also exerts immune functions owing to liver phagocytes that eliminate bacteria from the blood. The liver takes part in bilirubin metabolism and bile secretion. The liver activity produces a great amount of heat and in this way it regulates body temperature.

Everyone knows that the liver clears our organism of poisons and waste products and therefore liver itself requires some purification. Nowadays, numerous methods of liver cleansing are offered by folk medicine. However, some of them produce only significant confusion in the mind and body. Frequently, if you apply some of these methods according to the developers’ recommendations, significant damage may be inflicted to the organism.

Obesity is conducive to liver diseases since it results in disturbances of liver activity that are manifested in increase of liver sizes, amplification of biochemical hepatic indices and changes at the cellular level such as large-cellular steatosis, fatty hepatosis, fibrosis and cirrhosis. Though this pathology is submitted in reviews as a series of particular cases, most likely such disturbances can be attributed to the signs and symptoms of the disease known as non-alcoholic fatty liver degeneration. As the volume of the data is rather small, the incidence of liver diseases in obesity is unknown.