Our biological detoxifier

Our human body is a very complex perfect machine (when healthy) that keeps everything balanced, and when something happens, finds the easiest way to fix it. It has many organs that work together in systems to keep things the way they’re supposed to be. But maybe one of the most important (among the Heart and the Brain) is the liver.

The liver is located in the abdomen. It’s part of the gastrointestinal system. It’s like a deformed triangle, and on average, is 26 cm width and 15 cm height. It does a lot of important things, it basically keeps you alive.

One of the very important functions liver has is that it produces bile. The bile is a bright yellow-green liquid that goes into the small intestines and help digest food. Another is that it metabolizes toxins (like alcohol or waste from the body) so thanks to it we don’t die intoxicated. The liver also stores vitamins, minerals and glycogen and releases them if we are in need.

There are many other things that liver does, and there’s no way to compensate the absence of this organ in the long term, so the tranplantation is the only option for complete liver failure . Also there’re many liver diseases, like Cirrhosis. This damages the structure of the liver and makes it not work properly. Also you can get liver cancer. It’s very common to have metastatic cancer there, because the liver “cleans” the blood, so the carcinogenic cells can reach there easily.

You can keep you liver healthy by don’t over-ingesting toxins (like alcohol) and eating properly when you have to, because maybe it will not cause an instantaneous disease, but maybe in some years, it will payback.

和: A Spirit of Unity

My mom works in a tourism agency, and thanks to that I've traveled a lot. Maybe my best holiday was in July 2015. I'm a scout, and each 4 years, we have like a global camp, called Jamboree where scouts from all the world meet in a certain place. That year was in Kirara-hama, Yamaguchi, Japan. But we arrived Japan some days earlier to know the place.

We went to Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Ube and while we were at the jamboree we visited Hiroshima. The travel lasted 2-3 weeks. We were divided in patrols of ten plus our leader, so we were eleven. We did a lot of things. Visiting the cities, we went to most known places and temples (we didn't had much time) like the Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo Tower, and other places that I don't remember right now.

In the Jamboree, each day we had a different theme. We learned about scientific advances and about caring about our camp place. One day we went to the Peace museum in Hiroshima(very shocking place). We had a water games day, a day to know the other cultures (we had to make a display about our country, so we did some Sopaipillas with Pebre to give to the people from other countries and we danced El Costillar es mio. We even went to a primary school where the kids received us and make an act. They had an Orchestra group and played some wonderful songs (it's no joke that japanese can do everything better) and we visited a cave which name I can't recall, but it was beautiful. There were also 2 concerts, one at the beginning and the other at the end of the Jamboree. The first time there was a group called Dadadadan Tenko and a boring singer after, and the second was a famous japenese singer.

It think it has been my best holidays because we get to know many people from other countries and it was fun, for exaple that time while we were traveling in a highspeed train, we got to know a polish named Paveł and talked about how was his country or while we were walking to a ceremony, we enjoyed singing with some omani people. The only bad thing about the trip, is the time we spend on air. It was horrible.

A place I would like to visit

If I had to opportunity to choose a country to visit, despite the money, I would visit Italy. Mainly the south, Venice, Naples, Florence and of course Rome. I don’t know too much about Italy, but it calls me, I feel that it has something special, in the architecture, the history and the monuments.In Venice, I would take a gondola ride with my girlfriend on the back canals and in the Grand Canal. Even more, I would like to be the Gondolier. I think it's romantic and something that you must do. In Naples, visit the Herculaneum and the Mt. Vesuvius and of course eat some Pizza Napoletana. In the south of Italy, The Mezzogiorno, especially the Greek Architecture that you can found there, due to the colonies that were established long time ago. In Florence, I would visit The Palazzo Vecchio, see the sculptures and the Dante Alighieri influence. And in Rome, I would visit probably all the churches, and the whole Vatican City. 

If I had the opportunity to live there probably I wouldn’t do it, because I think it’s a place to visit, to be a tourist, not to live there, at least not now, maybe older (like 80 years old) my mind could change, but if could choose a country to live, it would probably be the UK.

A little about me.

Hello there, my name is Matías Ahumada, I was born in Santiago, Chile in 1998. My father passed away when I was 3 years old, so all my life I've lived only with my mother, until in 2011 when my brother, Santiago, was born. I studied in Liceo Instituto Nacional, where I got to know wonderful friends and teachers (not all of them, but many). I'm studying Pharmacy in the Universidad de Chile (first year here).

My hobbies are listening to music (I'm nearly all the time doing it), playing video games, mostly Osu!, League of Legends and Hearthstone, and scouting (I'm scout since I was like 8-9 years old, so it's something very important in my life). I also like to play with my brother and watch tv series or movies (mostly by Netflix)

I like to visit new places. I hate beach. I've travelled a lot. Mostly of the time, I'm very lazy, but I like to keep things in order. I'm not really a social person.

My favourite music bands are Radiohead, Gorillaz, Blur and some others unknown power-metal groups.

I have a cat, her name is Cleo, she's 2 years old. She's white and orange.