How does the Liver Function?
“Hi I’m Dr. Peter Kramer with Wrightsville Beach Family Medicine in Wilmington, North Carolina here to talk a little bit how the liver functions. The liver is a very complicated organ. It’s one of the most complicated organs in the body. It’s primary role is to filter all the blood that goes through the body on a continual basis. It’s responsible for extracting proteins and nutrients from the intestinal tract once the intestines absorb the nutrients they’re all run through the liver so they can be broken down into their component parts and processed. The liver makes all, it has a very important function in synthetic function, it synthesizes several vitamins and it processes triglycerides and cholesterol, it manufactures cholesterol then it also manufactures all of your clotting proteins and all your clotting components. If you have a problem with your liver you may find bruising, bleeding, bleeding with your gums, those kind of things. That’s involving the synthetic component of your l
