What does the liver do? - Emma Bryce
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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.
List some of the substances the liver manufactures, and why you think these may be useful for the body.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Emma Bryce
- Director Andrew Zimbelman
- Producer Andrea Sertz Jew
- Sound Designer Dave Feddock
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Narrator Addison Anderson
