Peter Attia· MD
so basic functions there's over 300 functions so we'd exhaust our entire time together if we went through all of them but a big one that hepatologists don't necessarily get trained in much is metabolism we've left a lot of that to the endocrinologists so we think about paranal liver diseases of common things like mled or nafl alcohol autoimmune hepatitis things that affect the whole liver — and then uh catic liver diseases or bi duct the plumbing system of the liver — hopefully in your show notes you can give a basic anatomy or a diagram of the liver looks like but a lot of what's read about the liver is focused on one versus another component so it's just really important for any audience member who's looking at a tiny piece of liver information whether it's biochemistries or picture to understand it in the context of what the liver does and some of the basic functions of the liver so we said metabolism and that's proteins lipids and fat — carbohydrate metabolism — it serves an immune function — we learn a lot about what the liver does from what it what happens when it doesn't work well so one of the major proteins that it makes are the synthetic proteins that help you plot blood so bleeding disorders are common in people with liver dysfunction the other one that comes up a lot is detoxification — and so whether it's metabolism of pharmacologic agents that people are taking in or any supplement or EX enous compounds or even toxins — environmental toxins — all of those get processed in the liver handled by the liver — and hopefully detoxified by the liver so those are just a few of the many functions