2. What role does the liver play?
The liver is an organ essential to the body's functioning. It performs many vital functions.
2.1 The liver filters blood
It eliminates waste.
It destroys aged red blood cells and transforms hemoglobin into bilirubin, which is eliminated in the bile after binding to albumin.
It filters and eliminates infectious agents that cross the intestinal barrier,
2.2 The liver transforms (metabolizes) xenobiotics...
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