Comments on: The incredible liver and its appeal

By: harrygibralter

harrygibralter — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:35:00 +0000

According to the Scottish executive, the risk of death among living liver donors is between 0.5% and 1%, with a one in five chance of complications. This compares with a risk of about 1 in 3,000 for living kidney donors and a complication rate of about 1%.

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By: John

John — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:15:04 +0000

Sense so are we…

By: sense

sense — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:05:55 +0000

Thank you, but I won’t be having any children, which means they won’t have any children who’ll be sitting around dissing the failings and diction of my generation. Woo, glad I nipped that in the bud.

By: thequack

thequack — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:11:49 +0000

sense
can’t wait till your children’s children talk about how failed the pill popping generation was and how it was driven by confused fall in liners who were born and raised to be consumers in a system full of people who used cute words like quackery to exercise their confusion and right to an opinion

hooray for treating ones own body as a temple and attempting to step outside of the non-sense and try and make sense of the things our body’s try and tell us everyday

By: MichelleR

MichelleR — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:56:10 +0000

allison,

Granted, the liver is not attached to the sweat glands directly. However, sweat, as well as urine, is formed when the blood plasma is filtered. This removes waste products (or toxins, as some prefer to call them) from the plasma. The primary function of sweating is to cool the body, but it does play a small but important role in waste removal as well.

By: natlynn

natlynn — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:31:47 +0000

My, my, this topic certainly engenders strong feelings doesn’t it?

Personally, I think it’s foolish to dismiss practices that have been developed and perfected over millenia.
That said, the fields of acupuncture and naturopathic medicines are somewhat of an under-regulated free-for-all, and some practictioners do take advantage of their patients. Those greedy bastards unfortunately overshadow the work of people who truly want to help and heal.

As for detox, I’m undecided. Too little empirical evidence one way or another.

By: Zach

Zach — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:54:08 +0000

Maybe you should get medical advice from your doctor instead of your quack acupuncturist and fad detox books.

By: Tru

Tru — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:52:32 +0000

I am currently looking into detox options. I have serious addictions to both caffine and nicotine and would like to quit both.
I spoke with my doctor. He wanted to put me on drugs that would cost me several hundred dollars per month.
When I said I couldn’t afford it, he told me that was the only thing that would work.
I’m willing to try just about anything that will help me get through this process faster. If detox is it, then great! Rather than giving my money to large pharmeceutical companies, I can patronize local businesses. :)

By: Sense

Sense — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:26:26 +0000

heather,I didn’t mean my comment as a personal attack on you. I don’t claim to have all the answers but I am very suspicious of people and professions who say they do. There are many things I’m open minded about. I was even open minded about acupuncture at one point but once I learned more about it I came to the conclusion that it’s sheer quackery. That’s my opinion. I shouldn’t have to cite a specific source to voice an opinion.

By: eeyore

eeyore — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:51:55 +0000

to all the haters of acupuncture: never had it, don’t have much interest in it, yadda yadda yadda.

but: if you’re that interested in the scientific merits of the stated theory, go visit this friend of mine i call “google” and see what you can find rather than post your “equally” half-assed counter theories.

or: for anyone who has witnessed first hand the detox process of alcohol leaving the brain — let alone the liver, that organ that transmutates its deleterious effects — i’ll be damned if you can claim that it is not working overtime.

alcohol affects each of us differently. it is a chemical composition unfamiliar to either the brain or the basic evolution of man (if you are to believe in such things, which, perhaps you aren’t) and as such its effects are not to be judged across the board but individually.

that said (and yes, whether you like it or not, agreed upon) one cannot deny that the liver, let alone the bloodstream and the brain, undergo a serious state of withdrawal once unhooked from that chemical.

you can deny it if you want, and you can chalk it up to your perfectly logical rejection of the hocus-pocus of “homeopathic” medicine all you like, but like alcohol you will only find yourself — if you can detox long enough — lying to yourself.

the liver works overtime to reacclimate itself to its more purified state. think about it or google it, but a simple form of logical reasoning will avail you of the obvious.