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Your liver can regenerate its original size.
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Your liver is a vital organ that performs over 500 functions in your body. It helps digest food, store energy, produce hormones, detoxify blood, and fight infections. It is also the only organ that can regenerate itself after being damaged or removed. Your liver can grow back to its original size even if up to 75% of it is lost or donated. This remarkable ability is due to the fact that your liver cells can divide and multiply rapidly when needed.
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