how long can you live without your liver?

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Not very...if you have no liver function at all, you will likely survive only about 24 hours at the most. Your liver is like your own personal chemical processing plant, and it does so many things for your body that you can't possibly survive without it. It detoxifies things by filtration and breaking them down; it makes bile that enables you to digest fat; it aids in digesting carbs; it breaks down waste products of metabolism into less harmful chemicals that can be excreted through the kidneys or digestive tract; it manufactures essential proteins. The really cool thing about the liver is that you can give someone part of it and it will regenerate itself, so transplants from living donors are possible.

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Maybe a few minutes.

You can't.
Even with low liver functioning you will have a hard time surviving.
It controls your blood, your toxins, etc...
You can't live even an hour without your liver...

You can't.

http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/livertransplant_ez/

You can't. Toxins would over take your body very quickly

You cannot.
But if you have liver failure there are some options.

http://www.surgery.usc.edu/divisions/hep/livedonorlivertransplant.html

http://www.macaddict.com/forums/topic/12042

Without a liver? you can't at all the liver is way to important to the body to remove toxins.

i am just curious why you would ask that question.

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