How the liver works

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TED-Ed Original Lessons How do the lungs work? - Emma Bryce Animation by Andrew Zimbelman When you breathe, you transport oxygen to the body’s cells to keep them working, while also clearing your system of the carbon dioxide that this work generates. How do we accomplish this crucial and complex task without even thinking about it? Emma Bryce takes us into the lungs to investigate how they help keep us alive. View full lesson » What does the liver do? - Emma Bryce Animation by Andrew Zimbelman 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. View full lesson »

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