What does the liver do? - Emma Bryce

Translator: Mehmet Sıddık Dilek Reviewer: ronya bewran

There's a factory inside you that weighs about 1.4 kilograms

Di zikê me de fabrîqeyekê, 1.4 kg giran,

and runs for 24 hours a day.

24 saetan dixebite, heye.

This is your liver, the heaviest organ in your body,

Kezebreş! Organe pir girîng û

herî giran.

and one of the most crucial.

This industrious structure simultaneously acts as a storehouse,

Ev organ wek febriqeyekê,

a manufacturing hub,

cihê komkirine,

û navenda neqşandine ye.

and a processing plant.

And each of these functions involve so many important subtasks

Ji bilî van,gelek peywirên din jî dike.

that without the liver, our bodies would simply stop working.

Ku kezebreş peywirê xwe neke, jiyanê raweste.

One of the liver's main functions is to filter the body's blood,

Peywirekê girîng ku dike, parzinkirina xwînê ye.

which it receives in regular shipments from two sources:

Xwîn ji du ciha tê kezebreşê.

the hepatic artery delivers blood from the heart,

Bi damarê hepatik ji dil û

while the hepatic portal vein brings it from the intestine.

ya din bi damarê portal ji roviya tê.

This double delivery fills the liver with nutrients,

Ev xwîna ji du ciha hatî,

that it then sorts, processes and stores

di lobulê kezebreşê de

with the help of thousands of tiny internal processing plants,

tê parzin kirin,neqşandin

û pêdivî hebe tê kom kirin.

known as lobules.

Both blood flows also deliver the oxygen that the liver needs to function.

Bi vî awayî ji bo kezebreşê jî O2 û xurek tên.

The blood that is received from the intestine

Di nav xwîna ji roviyan tê de

contains carbohydrates, fats,

karbonhîdrat,run

and vitamins and other nutrients dissolved in it

vîtamin û xurekên din

from the food you've consumed.

yen ku we xwarine, tên.

Her yek cuda tê neqşandin.

These must be processed in different ways.

Karbonhîdrat heta glîkozê tê hûr kirin,

In the case of carbohydrates,

the liver breaks them down and converts them into sugars

û glîkoz ji bo pêdiviya enerjiya hucreyan

for the body to use as energy when the filtered blood is sent back out.

derbasî nav xwînê dibe.

Sometimes the body has leftovers of nutrients

Carina xurek zêde ye,

that it doesn't immediately require.

wê kêliyê pewîstî bi wan tune.

When that happens, the liver holds some back,

Di rewşê wisa de,xurek li kezebreşê de

and stacks them in its storage facility.

tên kom kirin û hilandin.

This facility works like a pantry

Kezebreşê wek depoyekê, xureka dihilîne

for future cases when the body might be in need of nutrients.

heta dema pewîstî çê bibe.

But the blood flowing into the liver isn't always full of good things.

Her tim di nav xwînê de tiştên baş nayên.

It also contains toxins and byproducts that the body can't use.

Tiştên toqsîk û dive werin avêtin jî tên.

And the liver monitors these strictly.

Tiştek ji çavê kezebreşê nafilite.

When it spots a useless or toxic substance,

Dema tiştekî toqsîk dît,

it either converts it into a product that can't hurt the body

an wê diguherîne tiştekî bêzirar,

or isolates it and whisks it away,

an digre û ji bo were avêtin,

channeling it through the kidneys and intestine to be excreted.

dişîne roviya û gurçikê.

Of course, we wouldn't consider the liver a factory

Elbet, ku tiştek neçêkiriba,

if it didn't also manufacture things.

me nedigot kezebreşê febrîqe ye.

This organ makes everything from various blood plasma proteins

Proteînê xwîne bigire,

that transport fatty acids and help form blood clots,

heta kolesterolê,asîtê run,

to the cholesterol that helps the body create hormones.

proteînên bo sekinandina xwîne û hwd jî çê dike.

It also makes vitamin D and substances that help digestion.

Ji bo herisandina xwarinê jî kar dike.

But one of its most vital products is bile.

Mînakê girîng, çêkirina zirav e.

Like an eco-friendly treatment plant,

Zirav avêkê kesk e.

the liver uses cells called hepatocytes

Hucreyên kezebreşê tiştê ku werin avêtin jî

to convert toxic waste products into this bitter greenish liquid.

dixin nava zirav û tên avêtin.

As it's produced, bile is funneled into a small container below the liver,

Zirav çê dibe û

di kîsikê zirav de kom dibe.

called the gallbladder,

Dema pêdivî çê dibe, zirav diçe roviya;

before being trickled into the intestine

to help break down fats, destroy microbes, and neutralize extra stomach acid.

mîkroban dikuje,asîtê notr dike û run diherisîne.

Bile also helps carry other toxins and byproducts from the liver

Alavên toksîk jî di nav zirav de

out of the body.

ji bedenê tên avêtin.

So as you can see,

Wek hûn dibînin,

the liver is an extremely efficient industrial site,

kezebreş febrîqeyek pir mezin e,

performing multiple tasks that support each other.

û gelek peywirê girîng dike.

But such a complex system needs to be kept running smoothly

Dive ev febrîqe xira nebe

by keeping it healthy

û bi tenduristî bişixule.

and not overloading it with more toxins than it can handle.

Tu car alavên toksîk bi kar neênin.

This is one factory we simply can't afford to shut down.

Ji destê mirov nayê ku vê febrîqe bigire.