“What your liver functions are:

• Your liver is essential to your life. It is the largest internal organ, and gland, in the body. It is about the size of a football and weighs up to 4 pounds. It is located on your right side, just under your rib cage.

• The liver performs more than 500 functions, many vital, including filtering toxins from your blood, managing blood clotting, making bile to digest fat, storing and controlling blood sugar for energy (glucose/glycogen), making protein for blood plasma, storing your body’s iron, creating proteins, eliminating old and damaged red blood cells, and helping fight off infections.

With Liver Disease:

• Liver disease is also called hepatic disease. There are many kinds of liver diseases and conditions, the most common are hepatitis virus infections, metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) which is formerly known as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), immune system abnormalities, inherited (genetic) conditions, cancer, damage from alcohol and substance use disorders, and others. There are more than 100 types of liver disease, most of which are in groups of subtypes.”

American Liver Foundation (Liver Functionality)