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Quotes About Liver

Love doesn't reside in the heart, anyway. Love resides in the liver along with jaundice.
~ Amy Gerstler, Medicine
People avoid egg yolks because they're afraid of the cholesterol, but the choline in the egg yolk actually helps prevent the accumulation of cholesterol and fat in the liver!
~ Jonny Bowden
Miss Glory went on to say that the doctor had taken all her lady organs. I reasoned that a pig organ's included the lungs, heart, and liver, so if Mrs. Cullinan was walking around without those essentials, it explained why she drank alcohol out of unmarked bottles. She was keeping herself embalmed.
~ Maya Angelou
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
~ Alfred Kazin
Competition is the heart, soul, liver, lungs and kidney of the beast we call Western capitalism.
~ Felix Dennis
beneath the caged flutter of hope fear blooms in the liver as a spear where memory burns its fever across the spoke of my body
~ Stephanie Roberts
The color scheme of the whole sanatorium seemed to be based on liver. Dark, glowering woodwork, burnt-brown leather chairs, walls that might once have been white but had succumbed under a spreading malady of mod or damp. A mottled brown linoleum sealed off the floor.
~ Sylvia Plath
I thought... I thought you might... Help you? By my grove, I am helping you. You're not starving anymore, are you? <…> You had a dry night's sleep, too, and you're no longer coughing your liver and lights out. Some might count those as mighty gifts indeed.
~ Tad Williams
If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Every chemical that makes it into your bloodstream - be it through your lungs, stomach, or skin - meets up with your liver at some point. Since your liver is your body's best defense when it comes to filtering out all those toxins, you need to treat it well.
~ Suzanne Somers
I'm taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was removed, and they did the treatment on four places in my brain with radiation. And now I'm taking a long-term medicine that stimulates my own immune system to fight against cancer.
~ Jimmy Carter
Deep fasting puts the body into a state that is normally only experienced during sleep, one in which the liver and other detoxification systems can focus exclusively on detoxification, repair, and regeneration.
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate
~ William Shakespeare
Chlorophyll in particular has a cleansing effect, helping the body extract toxins from the liver. As toxins are removed, withdrawal symptoms will be intensified, but overall withdrawl will be shorter. Eating chlorophyll-rich foods have been shown to help people break the addiction to nicotine and stop smoking.
~ Brendan Brazier
healthy hierarchy is achieved when nested systems serve the greater whole of which they are a part. Liver cells serve the liver, which in turn serves the human body; if those cells start to multiply rapidly, they become a cancer, no longer serving but destroying the body on which they depend.
~ Kate Raworth
To mention a colorful example, the nineteenth-century German scientist Karl Vogt once wrote that "thoughts stand in the same relation to the brain as gall does to the liver or urine to the kidneys." When he expressed this idea in public, a philosopher interjected that the longer one listens to Professor Vogt, the more one tends to believe him. Clearly, more sophisticated ideas and models are in demand.
~ Gary Marcus
Your liver is your vital detoxification organ, and if it becomes overloaded with toxins from the food, drink, or medications you're consuming, you'll have more toxins circulating throughout your body, damaging your organs and glands. Detoxing your liver will help it work more efficiently - and help you slim your waistline.
~ Suzanne Somers
Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation.
~ Joe Murray
My daughter is a real migraine sufferer; the minute she has a handful of Haribo sweets, she gets a headache. There's a connection between what the liver can't break down with what goes on to trigger a headache. You just have to be aware.
~ Sheherazade Goldsmith
Found the rum, did you?' Lutes said from behind her, 'She's poisoning her liver.' 'My liver's fine, soldier. Just needs a squeezing out.' 'Squeezing out?' She turned round and glared at the squad healer. 'I seen livers before, Cutter. Big sponges full of blood. Tumbles out when you cut someone open.' 'Sounds more like a lung, Sergeant. The liver's this flat thing, muddy brown or purple—
~ Steven Erikson
The liver signifieth the element of water, and it is also the water; for from the liver cometh the blood in the whole body into all the members. The liver is the mother of the blood.
~ Jakob Bohme
A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.
~ Thomas Harris
And the study?" "A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.
~ Thomas Harris
After his liver transplant in April 2009, visionary Apple CEO Steve Jobs lived two and a half years
~ Ira Byock