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Your liver does more than 500 jobs

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Your liver is the ultimate underpaid corporate employee holding the entire company together. It produces bile, filters toxins, regulates blood clotting, metabolizes drugs, and stores glycogen, all without complaining. It performs over 500 vital processes simultaneously, meaning a hangover is just you abusing your hardest worker.

Your liver does more than 500 jobs
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