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.

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.

Facts and Stats

Latest facts and figures regarding liver health.

Check your liver health

Interactive online tools to help you assess your liver health and provide simple lifestyle recommendations on diet, exercise and lifestyle, to help you improve liver health.

Coronavirus

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.

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.

LiverWELL, trading as Hepatitis Victoria is the peak community organisation working across the state for people affected by, or at risk of, liver disease and viral hepatitis.

LiverWELL acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community.

We welcome people from all cultures, nationalities and religions. Being inclusive and providing equitable services is our commitment.

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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.