Liver, or Liver: It is the largest body organ, occupying a large portion of the upper abdomen, weighing about 1.40 kg. The liver is located on the upper right side of the abdomen, and one of them extends to the left. The liver is located just below the diaphragm. Its shape is more conical, and its color is dark brown, reddish.
The liver consists of two main lobes: the right lobe and the left lobe, separating the two lobes from fibrous tissue and contractions. The liver is also made up of two other small lobes: the lobe, the comet, and the square.
At the bottom of the liver is a door known as the Liver Gate, where blood vessels, arteries and nerves enter and exit through this portal. The liver also has many channels that carry bile to the outside.
The liver is one of the most important organs of the body, it is a very large number of jobs, estimated at at least 500 jobs, and experts of the estimated liver functions in thousands.
One of the most important functions of the liver: it works to get rid of toxins entering the body, the liver deals with all toxins that enter the body one way or another. Where the liver processes these toxins by changing their composition, converting them to other substances, or cracking them, and then expelled from outside the body. All this is done by various enzymes, bile extract produced by the liver.
The liver also plays an important role in digestion, metabolism, and in particular the metabolism of carbohydrate, protein, and fatty substances. For example, the liver works to sugar in the inside, after converting from glucose to glycogen. In hypoglycemia, the liver re-converts the glycogen into glucose and compensates for the body’s need for it. The liver regulates the level of sugar in the blood.
The liver also facilitates the process of digestion of fat, by breaking it into small parts, so that the body can absorb it, and then throw the excess out of the body, all through the bile extract produced by the liver.
Other liver functions include many proteins, vitamins, and mineral salts, such as iron, vitamins A, B12, K, etc., where the liver stores them until they are needed.
The liver also secrete many hormones that perform important functions, including: dilution hormone, which is based on diluting blood and softening. And clotting hormone, which helps to clot the blood in case of bleeding and wounds. And also the secretion of a hormone specialized in calibrating the proportion of water in the body, so that the body does not store more than the need of water.