By 
Emma Bryce
 | 
TED-Ed Original

What does the liver do?

There's a factory inside you that weighs about 1.4 kilograms and runs for 24 hours a day. It's your liver: the heaviest organ in your body which simultaneously acts as a storehouse a manufacturing hub and a processing plant. Emma Bryce gives a crash course on the liver and how it helps keep us alive.

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