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To: ConservativeMind

Liver gets the first opportunity to filter oral drugs before the rest of body. Agents like vitamin C are given to cancer patients intravenously because the liver is so effective.


10 posted on 02/25/2023 6:58:37 AM PST by cicero2k
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To: cicero2k

Your understanding of the process of food getting into the body is a bit off.

Our intestines directly pass nutrients into our circulatory system (blood). There is nothing that routes to the liver over all the other organs, first.

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/digestive-diseases/digestive-system-how-it-works


11 posted on 02/25/2023 9:19:20 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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