A short YouTube video segment (by Dr. Tabatha Barber) explaining the liver’s importance for women. The speaker states the liver performs over 500 processes, metabolizes hormones and xenoestrogens, detoxifies toxins and medications, produces proteins/enzymes and clotting factors, contributes to vitamin synthesis, and converts T4 into active T3 (important for thyroid-driven metabolism).
The liver is responsible for over 500 processes in the body. It's super important to be functioning well. You know, for us women, it metabolizes our hormones, it gets rid of xenoestrogens and all kinds of toxins in the body. It metabolizes all the medications you take. It produces some of your much needed proteins and enzymes and clotting factors for your blood. It helps make vitamins. The other big thing is it converts T4 into T3, your thyroid hormone, or if you're taking it, your thyroid medication. And you need that active T3 to have good functioning metabolism. So the liver is super important for women.
