The Liver and Gallbladder
The liver is responsible for more than 500 body functions including processing, breaking down and removing environmental chemicals and pollutants that enter the body. With all the pollutants entering your system as food additives, environmental pollutants and pesticides, the liver can become congested and fail to fully remove the toxins from your bloodstream. Impeding these vital functions not only affects the body's performance as a whole, but also the health of every single cell. As one of its other important tasks, the liver continuously produces and secretes bile. Little known to many, bile has many crucial functions involved in homeostasis. It is used to digest the fats we eat, a process that also involves the elimination of bad cholesterol. It also has immune and peristaltic functions. Likewise, the gallbladder serves a very vital purpose that most of us often take for granted. Because bile is not needed throughout the digestive process, storing and concentrating bile so that this is used more efficiently as the need arises is an essential gallbladder function. Having either the liver or gallbladder malfunction could spell disaster. One of the more common a anomalies that can happen with the malfunctioning of the liver or gallbladder is the formation of gall stones. |