Major Organs

Brain

Brain

• It keeps all the other organs in check, managing complex operations such as temperature, hunger, thirst, love, anger, and fear. Of course it takes care of memory, dreams, speaking and imagination. Fire up them neurons!

Lungs

lungs

• Lungs bring fresh oxygen into our bodies, removing carbon dioxide and other gas waste products so we can breathe easy.

Heart

heart

• Meet the hardest working organ in show business: your heart. This muscular organ pumps oxygenated blood throughout the body and beats approximately 100,000 times per day!

Liver

Liver

• The liver makes many of the body’s most vital chemicals, including cholesterol, bile, proteins and the clotting factors needed to stop bleeding. It also stores sugars, proteins, vitamins for use later. The liver also helps break down harmful substances and metabolize drugs.

Pancreas

pancreas

• The pancreas is a little organ nestled between the bottom of the stomach and the top of the small intestine. This little guy produces digestive enzymes, but he is best known for producing the hormone insulin. We need insulin to help us process glucose from the blood stream.

Stomach

stomach

• The stomach creates a highly acidic environment used to digest all the foods we eat. This oragsn digestive juices help break down food for the intestine, which absorbs the actual nutrients.

Spleen

spleen

• Your spleen keeps your blood tidy and fresh by battling disease in the bloodstream. This queen of clean serves as your primary blood filter and largest lymph organ. It brings blood into contact with lymphocytes, which happily attack foreign bodies, and cleans worn-out red and white blood cells.

Kidneys

Kidneys

• The kidneys — most people have two — clean and process your blood, pick out the waste and return fresh blood to your bloodstream. Extra water pulled from the blood becomes excess fluids which exit when using the bathroom !

Appendix

appendix

• Some think the appendix, located at the bottom right of the intestine, doesn’t do anything. Others think it helps good bacteria populate the gut. Most of us don’t think about the appendix at all until it needs to get removed.

Gallbladder

gallbladder

• The gallbladder collects and concentrates bile, a substance made by the liver and used to digest fat. Bile helps keeps your cholesterol in check! Gall stones are the crystals that sometimes form from the bile. You can give your gallbladder a break by laying off the fat.

Intestines

intestines

• The small intestine absorbs nutrients from food, while the large intestine absorbs water and excretes solid waste. The appendix, located at the bottom right of the intestine, doesn’t do much of anything. It may have been used to digest cellulose.

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