Re: The effects of having more than one liver?

Well, well. To tell you frankly, I've heard of people having two heads, or 6 fingers, but this is new to me.

Anyway, putting in an extra organ inside the body would be still difficult. Why? Our body is simply "filled" with the internal organs it has!!! The number of organs we have in our body is clearly defined. The only time we put in an organ is in the case of transplantation, and this procedure is peformed to replace the original organ, generally diseased, with somebody else's organ that can take over its function. Thus, the number of organs remains the same as the diseased organ is removed and replaced with the healthy one.

Now each organ in our body serves a special function and accordingly it has its own set of blood vessels and nerves. So to put in an extra organ you would need to provide it with a set of its own vessels and nerves!!! ..not exactly an easily possible task. So, the person you talked about having 3 kidneys might have had the organs from birth, otherwise aquiring an extra liver after birth doesnt normally happen.

The liver also occupies such a large area in our body, I doubt you would be able to find space for another liver until you removed the first one. Again the same principle applies here, of getting a whole new set of vessels and nerves!!!

Finally, no, if the person by chance had 3 kidneys, the blood would not be a little cleaner. Rather, he would have had more of a problem maintaining the 3 kidneys.