2007-02-19 00:52:38 · 7 answers · asked by P Ni Ka 3 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Diabetes
Your gall bladder is a storage site for bile, an enzyme used in fat digestion that is produced in the liver. Bile is stored in your gall bladder and gets released into the small intestine when you eat. This way there is a large release of bile when it's needed. Without a gall bladder your liver will continue to produce the bile but there will no longer be a place to storage it. Therefore when you eat your liver will need to produce more bile at once and fat digestion will be limited to the rate of bile production.
Your liver also functions as a filter for all the blood leaving your digestive tract. All the blood from the digestive tract enters the liver via the hepatic portal system. Once inside the liver, blood is cleaned of any bacteria that may have found its way into the blood stream from the intestines. Also, a large amount of glucose is removed from the blood and stored in the liver as glycogen. Some fat is also stored in the liver and cholesterol is converted to bile.
Without a liver you would die because of the toxins that would fail to be cleaned out and also you would not be able to digest fats and you would be severely hyperglycemic.
2007-02-19 04:20:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A gall bladder is part of your digestive system. The enzymes it produces can be replaced or are produced from other organs. Your liver on the other hand is an enormous filter. It cleans your blood of all the toxins that build up due to eating, drinking, breathing, and medicating. Without that filter you would die from toxic overload in a day or three. Your liver has several lobes and if necessary you can live if some of it is damaged or donated (say for a transplant).
Love your liver,
It will take care of you for life.
2007-02-19 01:04:11 · answer #2 · answered by Elizabeth 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because liver performs functions which are essential for the body to survive.This is not so for the gall bladder.For that reason liver is considered to be one of the six vital organs of the body whereas gall bladder is not.
2007-02-19 01:03:40 · answer #3 · answered by rkbaqaya 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the gall bladder is not a vital organ, and the liver is.
2007-02-19 01:01:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I once read up on the liver. It is one of the most amazing organs in the human body. It performs many essential tasks whereas the gall bladder performs only one non essential task. Read more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall_bladder
2007-02-19 01:10:33 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. Peachy® 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The gall bladder along with Meckel's diverticulum, and appendix are structures remaining from evolution, but not necessary to the present body.
2007-02-19 01:49:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The gallbladder stores bile salts produced by the liver, then excretes it when we eat fatty foods. The liver on the other hand produces clotting factors for our blood, produces bile salts-see above, helps filter toxins out of the blood, and much more-.
2007-02-19 01:05:39 · answer #7 · answered by Queen-o-the-Damned 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋