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Your Liver

Introduction

Just about everything you eat and everything you drink goes through your liver. Even chemicals that touch your skin and toxins that you breathe in pass through your liver.

How your liver works
Your liver has around 500 different jobs that keep your body working at its best. The two most important jobs are cleaning your blood and helping with digestion.
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Facts and Stats
Latest facts and figures regarding liver health.
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COVID-19
Global research shows that older people and people with chronic health conditions, including those that are liver-related, are at higher risk of becoming seriously ill or dying from COVID-19 than the average population.
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Living Well
Lifestyle factors are important when caring for your liver, either for prevention or maintenance of a liver condition. The guides provide information on Drink Aware, Eating Well, Feeling Well, and Getting Active.
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LiverWELL acknowledges the support of the Victorian Government.
We welcome people from all cultures, nationalities and religions. Being inclusive and providing equitable services is our commitment.

ABN 48 656 812 701

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands where we work - the lands of the Woi-Wurrung Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations. We express our gratitude to them for their continued care and curation of these lands and waters. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.

LiverWELL observes and honours the Kulin Nation's intrinsic connection to land, sky and water, and the creator Bunjil. LiverWELL is committed to being led and informed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders on bridging health outcomes for communities and improving liver health.

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