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What causes problems with a liver besides drinking too much?
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Environmental toxins: All toxins from environment including the gas we inhale daily from vehicles, molds affect liver.
Answered 11/26/2013
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Many things : Anything eaten or drunk, medications, lots of illnesses especially certain viruses , parasites( you can pick those up from putting hands in mouth or from contaminated food). Drug addicts get liver damage from illnesses on shared paraphanalia. Some are transmitted by sex.
Answered 1/12/2012
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