Liver Health Affects Us All 

Scott Friedman, MD

Chief, Division of Liver Diseases 

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

"The liver plays a vital, life-saving role in keeping our systems healthy throughout our bodies.  Often taken for granted, this amazing organ filters our blood and removes toxic waste products, produces proteins that support our cells, fights infection, and helps digest our food to bring nutrition to our tissues.  Protecting this precious and magical organ must be a top priority to spare millions the heartache and suffering that comes with failure of the liver to do its job. "

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Kathleen Schwarz, MD

Professor of Pediatrics

Rady’s Children’s Hospital, San Diego

"Kids can do so much to protect their liver, a vital organ without which one cannot live. However in order for them to be proactive we owe it to them to educate them about how to keep that wonderful liver of theirs healthy. They need to know that being overweight can lead to serious liver damage and so can viruses like hepatitis B and C which are often acquired through injection drug use. Education is the key!"

David Pound, MD

President of Indianapolis Gastroenterology Research Foundation

 "Despite advances in the treatment of hepatitis

C and B . . . there is still a desperate need to increase the understanding of liver wellness and disease prevention in the American public. By the time I meet many patients, their liver disease has silently advanced to irreversible damage."