The liver is an organ that sits to the right of your stomach. It’s considered the biggest gland in your body, weighing in at around three pounds, and it plays a big role in keeping you healthy. The liver has many jobs, but the three most important things that it takes care of in the body is producing bile for your intestines, create proteins to help your blood clot, and detoxify any potentially dangerous chemicals that end up in the body.Liver failure happens when your liver becomes too damaged with scar tissue to fully heal itself and fails to complete its jobs for the body. This is called cirrhosis of the liver. Liver failure is considered a medical emergency, but it’s not always apparent when liver failure is happening because the failure can span for many years.
