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Talented Liver Cells

Each liver cell carries out some 500 different

chemical processes. Somehow, they are aware
of each activity taking place in the body’s
circulatory, digestive, excretory, and
other systems. Due to these tasks that
they perform, each cell is the site of
intense and continuous activity.
If any part of the liver is dam-
aged or extracted, its cells immedi-
ately switch to a new function—high-
speed multiplication—to repair the affected
part. As a result of the cells’ extraordinary
abilities, the liver is the only bodily organ
that can reconstitute itself. When the liver
regains its normal size and is fixed, the cells

suddenly cease this activity.
There is no difference between liver cells
and those in your finger tips, for both sets car-
ry exactly the same information. What makes
them different is what part of that information
they use. A single cell, invisible to the naked
eye, knows that the reproduction process has to
begin and so begins copying itself. When it
learns that the regeneration process has been
completed, it and all other cells stop this activi-
ty in a perfectly orderly manner that betrays no
haphazardness. During reproduction, no cell
decides to postpone the other functions and
thereby cause interruptions in the system. No new