Short Interesting Facts About Us, the Human Body & More…
Did You Know That…

1. The liver is one of the largest organs on the “inside” of your body. Your skin is the largest organ on the “outide” of your body.

2. The liver is the size of a football and weighs about 3 pounds in the average size person.

3. More heat is produced by the liver than by any other organ in the body.

4. The liver breaks down waste and harmful and toxic substances in the blood, such as drugs and alcohol.

5. The liver helps process carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, and stores vitamins.

6. The liver processes nutrients absorbed from food in the intestines and turns them into materials that the body needs for life. The liver makes the factors that the blood needs for clotting.

7. The liver secretes bile to help digest fats.

8. Sniffing inhalants, like glue or gasoline, damages your liver. Inhalants are poisons!!

9. Chronic use of some drugs, such as heroin, inhalants and steroids, may lead to significant damage to the liver.

10. Nearly 10 percent of the patients currently waiting for a liver transplant are young people under 18 years of age.

11. A liver transplant may involve the whole liver, a reduced liver, or a liver segment. Most transplants involve the whole organ but segmental transplants have been performed with increasing frequency in recent years. This would allow two liver recipients to be transplanted from one cadaveric donor or to allow for living donor liver donation. A reduced liver transplant may result if the donor liver is too large for the recipient.