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Simple Ways to Detox Your Liver and Improve Your Health

In terms of overall well-being, your liver plays a very important role in keeping you healthy.  It is an extremely complex organ that probably has more functions than any one single organ in your body.  Everything that goes into you is ultimately screened for toxins by the liver and neutralized by an elaborate enzyme system.  These toxins may be pesticides on your foods, cleaning agents under your sink, the gasoline vapors when you fill your tank, medications you take, and even the alcohol your social drinks.  The liver stores sugar and releases it when the body needs extra fuel, creates bile to help you digest fats, helps to recycle red blood cells, has white blood cells that screen your blood for bacteria and other infectious agents, and so on.  

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