The liver is a vital organ in the human body, and performs a multitude of critical functions necessary for maintaining good health and supporting life. In this article, we’ll look at a traditional understanding of the liver before expanding this further through the bioenergetics perspective.

Primary Roles of the Liver

1. Detoxification: The liver filters and detoxifies chemicals and metabolizes drugs. By doing so, it breaks down harmful substances, making them easier for the body to excrete.
2. Synthesis of Biochemicals Necessary for Digestion: The liver produces bile, a fluid essential for digestion. Bile helps in the emulsification and absorption of fats and fat-soluble vitamins in the small intestine.
3. Metabolism of Fats, Proteins, and Carbohydrates: It plays a central role in regulating the levels of fats, amino acids, and glucose in the blood. The liver converts excess glucose into glycogen for storage and can also produce glucose from amino acids and other substrates to maintain blood sugar levels.
4. Storage of Vitamins and Minerals: The liver stores vitamins A, D, E, K, and B12, as well as iron and copper, thus playing a crucial role in maintaining the body’s nutrient balance.
5. Blood Clotting Regulation: It produces essential proteins and factors necessary for blood clotting. Without these factors, the body would be unable to respond effectively to injury or bleeding.
6. Immune System Support: The liver contains Kupffer cells that form part of the immune system, helping to remove pathogens and debris from the blood.
7. Production of Albumin: The liver produces albumin, the most common protein in blood serum. Albumin helps in transporting hormones, vitamins, and enzymes throughout the body and maintains the osmotic balance of blood.
8. Hormone Regulation: The liver aids in regulating the balance of sex hormones, thyroid hormones, and adrenal hormones. It also deactivates and removes excess hormones from the body.
9. Clearance of Bilirubin: It processes and clears bilirubin, a byproduct of the breakdown of old red blood cells. If the liver cannot effectively clear bilirubin, jaundice can result.
10. Energy Storage and Release: The liver helps in the storage and release of energy by managing the conversion of sugars into glycogen or vice versa, depending on the body’s energy demands.

The liver’s remarkable ability to regenerate itself is also noteworthy. Even after significant damage or partial removal, the liver can often regenerate back to its full size and function. However, despite this regenerative capacity, chronic liver diseases or significant damage can lead to irreversible harm, emphasizing the importance of liver health in overall bodily well-being.

Expanding Primary Roles of the Liver With Bioenergetics:

Bioenergetics always recognizes relationships between organs, so when we think of an organ, we do not only think of health or disease related only to it.

Perhaps the strongest connection with the liver is to the eye, especially the retina, as well as the iris and the optic nerve. We also find connections to the myocardium, diaphragm, and other parts of the body.

Aligned with its role in regulating hormones, bioenergetics recognizes a match or communication with adrenaline (which we also see with the kidney integrator), prolactin, estrogen, progesterone, and more.

Even more broadly, however, the liver driver field correlates to the cell nucleus, Golgi body, mitochondria and other aspects of the cell. This gives the liver far-reaching bioenergetic effects. In fact, the liver integrator field links to errors around the genetic material of every cell. So, there could be a huge number of issues stemming from distortions in this field, even if they appear to have nothing to do with the liver. This is why a bioenergetics practitioner needs to remember the many possible connections of a thing, rather than looking myopically at a single area of the body.

There is also a relationship between the liver and pancreas, stemming from embryology and playing out in their partnership in managing blood sugar levels.

The liver is very sensitive to recreational drugs, pesticides, and geopathic stress, which has to do with disruptions in Earth fields due to underground streams, caves, faults, and similar.

Finally, TCM and bioenergetics both recognize a link between the liver and the emotion of anger. In seeing a tendency for anger in someone, we might also be on the lookout for liver issues to develop; and in the same way, if we do recognize health issues with the liver, we might look at emotional events around anger as  possible triggers or contributors to the problem. In considering the emotions of an organ, we have another avenue to understand the nature of the problem and to address it.

Bioenergetics and Liver Detoxification

One of the liver’s primary roles is detoxification, and clinically speaking, one considers correction of both the cell driver and liver driver fields to assist with detoxification, along with integrator fields of the large intestine and liver. The latter comes from a notion in Chinese medicine of using colon meridian and liver meridian together for detox.

Bioenergetics also looks to clearing energetic star fields for both C-O-H (involving carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen roles in the body) and heavy metals.

Clinical Notes:

Professor Peter Fraser, who developed today’s model of the human body-field, believed there is not just one cause of hypertension, making it a challenge to address. But in such cases, he recommended that one pay attention to distortions in the cell and liver driver fields, which also seek to bioenergetically decrease stress in the body.

For a build-up of fibrin, you might look to distortions in the skin and liver driver fields. This aligns with the liver’s role in clotting the blood.

Finally, Fraser noted the liver could be bioenergetically implicated in issues such as headaches, fluid retention, oxalic acid imbalance, optic neuritis, muscular degeneration, and unbalanced pH levels.

An Overview of Bioenergetic Liver Support

Overall, we want to look at any aspect of the body-field related to the liver when looking to support someone who is seeking better liver health. Here is a summary of the primary and secondary fields with this relationship:

Primary Fields:

• Liver driver
• Blood field / gallbladder integrator
• Liver / microbes integrator
• Liver terrains 10, 11, and 12

Secondary Fields:

• Equatorial axis (a field that relates us to the spin of the Earth): linked to the organs that sit in the middle of the body, including the liver and large intestine.
• Pancreas driver and integrator, as the pancreas and liver are closely related and each contribute to blood sugar regulation.
• Energetic terrains 7 and 8, both linking to the liver.
• Energetic star 13, related to carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen use in the body. This supports toxin excretion, thus aiding cellular metabolism and correlating it to the liver and pancreas. This star field is also linked to blood sugar regulation.