Care those who cared for you

As I have said in my earlier post, I will like to share some of the interesting functions described in this interesting books entitled "Hepatitis Liver Disease" about liver functions.

The author starts by describing the clear and apparent function of the brain, heart and the stomach. However, there is no single verb that describe what the liver does as it has numerous functions to perform.

To describe liver in simple terms, it is an organ in your body that acts like a highly reliable watchdog, grocer, housekeeper, bodybuilder, energy plant supervisor and sanitation engineer as quoted in the book. Liver is required to process and sort gallons of digested food from the stomach and intestines daily and it must be able to detoxify thousands of substances - ranging from alcohol to bug spray to turpentine fumes. It must also be able to dismantle old red blood cellsand recycle whatever parts that can be saved. It also must have a shared responsibility with the kidneys to control thyroid hormones which influence metabolism. There are other many many more functions of the liver.

The author continues by describing that the liver accomplishes all the functions or missions silently, working in the background, never advertising its presence. And besides, when a part of the liver is damaged or removed, it is sometimes called upon to regenerate itself. When the liver is damaged due to an infection of a virus like Hepatitis and other on, the symptoms that is experienced by the person are common for other illness like for example, flu, fever. By the time you get symptoms specifically for liver disease like jaundice, the liver may have been damaged.

So, I would like to say here is don't neglect those who cares for you silently, or who have been giving you the support in silence. Your liver is one, perhaps another person makes two which you don't know. Treasure them before it is too late.