For us, the liver is the official of the general. It is the production base of many essential substances in our human body, and also the distribution center of material flow and energy flow in our human body.
1. The location of the liver: the lower part of the sternum, that is, the heart socket, is between the right costal margins.
2. The food obtained by the body from food and the nutrients digested and absorbed pass through the portal vein from the stomach, small intestine and large intestine, and the first stop is the liver.
3. The liver purifies and refines the nutrients that enter the human body with food.
4. The liver is the storehouse of vitamins. The liver is the organ with the most vitamins A, K, B 1, B2, B6, B 12, pantothenic acid and folic acid.
Many vitamins can't be directly used by the body, but they can be used by tissues and cells of the whole body after being further processed by the liver and turned into active forms.
6. The liver is the manager of human nutrients.