Just about any paragraph with that word except in referrence to a place to come down from alcohol should be ignored. It has no physical meaning. The idea that your kidneys or liver need to be detoxified is created by the mistaken notion that they act like literal filters that collect garbage. The liver uses enzymes to slice and dice things until they are small enough for the kidney to actively excrete them. It does though also process and store glycogen and is instrumental in procesing lipids, as well as having endocrine and exocrine functions, some of which we don't understand at all.
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Date: 2006-11-29 04:29 am (UTC)Just about any paragraph with that word except in referrence to a place to come down from alcohol should be ignored. It has no physical meaning. The idea that your kidneys or liver need to be detoxified is created by the mistaken notion that they act like literal filters that collect garbage. The liver uses enzymes to slice and dice things until they are small enough for the kidney to actively excrete them. It does though also process and store glycogen and is instrumental in procesing lipids, as well as having endocrine and exocrine functions, some of which we don't understand at all.