Weekend Reading - The "liver to-do list."

Welcome to "Weekend Reading" folks, thank you for stopping by.

One of my biggest obsessions, well, other than my family, is reading a great article about the liver, you too? For me it all started when I was diagnosed with HCV, today I am cured but never pass up a good read devoted to this fascinating organ.

Somehow I missed; The Liver: A ‘Blob’ That Runs the Body, written by Natalie Angier, published last month over at the New York Times website. If you haven't had a chance to read the article yet, you're in for a treat, here is a brief look:

After all, a healthy liver is the one organ in the adult body that, if chopped down to a fraction of its initial size, will rapidly regenerate and perform as if brand-new. Which is a lucky thing, for the liver’s to-do list is second only to that of the brain and numbers well over 300 items, including systematically reworking the food we eat into usable building blocks for our cells; neutralizing the many potentially harmful substances that we incidentally or deliberately ingest; generating a vast pharmacopoeia of hormones, enzymes, clotting factors and immune molecules; controlling blood chemistry; and really, we’re just getting started.

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