Balls *and* Brains: The Science and History of Offal
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The Liver Is the Overlord of the Abdominal Cavity
The liver is the largest internal organ in the human body. It serves as a gatekeeper for everything that we ingest, including fat and proteins. The first organ meat i ever ate was definitely liver. I personally loved it. But although john hated eating liver kid he kind of fell in love with it as an organ. One of its main functions is serving as a gatekeeping for everything thatWe ingest. Every meal we eat, all the nutrients that are absorbed into the lining of the intestine, all of that flows through the portal veins to the liver which does function to check everything,. So that then moves on to all the other organs and cells throughout the body.
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