LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Liver: Fats
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Your liver performs a number of important functions. It stores vitamins, sugars, fats, and other nutrients derived from the food you eat. It creates chemicals your body needs to stay healthy and regulates body chemical levels. And, it breaks down and eliminates toxins (including alcohol) from your body and removes waste products from your blood.
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It is easy to understand the importance of the liver in cleansing, because it serves as a filter for everything circulating in the blood. It has to break down hormones (testosterone, estrogen, etc.), detoxifies water and fat based soluble chemicals (including drugs, medications, pesticides, etc.), and neutralizes toxins. The liver even stores necessary vitamins and minerals. Unfortunately, it ... stores most toxins the body cannot breakdown.
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It is a common opinion among those in the medical profession who regularly pump powerful and unpleasant pharmaceutical molecules into the bloodstreams of hapless patients that the liver can, and should, be trained. This was brought to light yesterday when my father, a tall, lanky, 55 year old haematologist who has been drinking a bottle of wine with dinner every night for at least the last 25 years, recovered completely from a several hour long general anaesthetic with not so much as slight wooziness in about thirty minutes. Over the course of lunch, he meditated on the skill and vigour of his by now well trained, almost commando liver, that had taken all a skillful anaesthesiologist could throw at it and metabolised the lot without breaking a sweat.
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