Your liver can repair itself, but not forever: Doctor explains when early liver damage can be reversed and what happens if scarring progresses

The liver rarely makes headlines until something goes wrong with it. That is partly because liver damage can develop quietly. A person may have excess fat in the liver or early inflammation without feeling unwell, while the organ continues to perform hundreds of jobs every day.It processes nutrients, helps regulate metabolism, produces important proteins, stores energy and breaks down substances the body needs to remove. It also has something that makes it different from many other organs: a rem