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One of the most important organs of the body, it makes bile which breaks down fat. The liver also takes the blood coming from the digestive tract and changes all the nutrients into forms the body can use and stores some as vitamins. It also cleans alcohol and drugs from the blood and reuses the iron in old, worn out red blood cells.