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for clotting blood if you have an injury.
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If the liver starts to die you're not making as many of these,
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you can have a bleeding disorder.
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It makes plasma proteins like albumin,
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which have many functions in the body.
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It makes bile acids, and bile acids are very important as
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an excretory organ for getting rid of molecules
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that the kidney is not able to eliminate into urine.
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I could go on down the list.
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I put it here just to say that when your kidney--
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when your liver fails thousands of things start to go wrong.
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You could imagine treating any one of these with drugs.