Your liver might be vegetarian, even if you’re not

by Jason on September 6, 2006

The next time someone makes a quip about our sharp teeth “proving” that we’re meant to eat meat, instead of telling them to tear open a cow using only their mouths, Mikair points out that you can now say “oh yeah, then explain the placement of your AGT enzyme in your liver then, Herb” (say that even if their name isn’t Herb. It’s like, funny and stuff). See, herbivores and omnivores seem to have a different distribution of AGT, and in humans it seems to match the herbovore pattern. According to a London professor, this might be why humans are so prone to getting kidney stones. According to me, this just jives with my theory that I eat the way I do because my liver needs all the help it can get, what with all the liquid loving it receives. Link.

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