The liver is an unbelievably resilient gland.

It is so remarkably resilient that it will bounce back from just about anything. What is happening here?

What is happening here?

Welcome back to your favorite podcast, the Gordai Podcast.

I'm going to show some alien today.

I'm going to do a deep dive on how important is the liver.

You might read this title and be like, oh man, like, it's just isn't going to be a fun one.

Might not be fun, but I promise there's going to be some sexy in there because you are going to need to

protect this thing and it could be what's preventing you from getting in peak contest

shape it could be what's preventing you from growing the most muscle that you possibly can in

off season. Have your not pads ready. I promise you're going to want this one. I'll see you inside.

All right, just how important is the liver well to put it as directly as possible.

It's about as important as anything could potentially be for a bodybuilder.

It's going to directly be involved in protein metabolism.

It's going to directly be involved in fat burning and bodybuilding is kind of all about those two things protein

metabolism and in in in fat burning the liver is involved in detoxification of the

entire body,

which, you know, if there was like a third component of bodybuilding

that is unbelievably important,

I think detoxification would be up there

considering all of the reactive oxygen species that we encounter that we essentially

promote within our body liver health when're on, if you're on any sort of oral psych or liver health is going to be somewhat

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