Understanding Your Liver Health

Your liver performs nearly 500 functions, including regulation of your cholesterol levels and purifying your blood.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Your liver weighs a little over 3 pounds, filters all of your blood each day, and when healthy is the only organ capable of regenerating; the liver performs nearly 500 functions, including regulating your cholesterol levels

• Three primary liver enzymes, AST, ALT and GGT, offer insight in the health of your liver; GGT is correlated with ir…