It Starts With Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

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Almost everything that goes from
your gut into your bloodstream
then goes directly to your liver, a
critical metabolic regulator and
filtration system. One of your
liver’s many jobs is to detoxify
compounds in your blood that
managed to improperly pass
through your gut barrier into your
bloodstream before that blood
goes to the rest of your body. For
example, bacteria that manage to
barge their way through your
intestinal lining are mostly
destroyed by your immune
system, but some leftover (toxic)
components of those cells can
still make their way into your
bloodstream. Your liver filters
them out before they get into the
rest of the body. Your liver is also
responsible for producing bile

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