Liver
Organ / systemThe body's main chemical-processing organ — it breaks down chemicals, including the ones service exposed you to.
What toxicants do here
Solvents and persistent chemicals are processed by the liver, which can inflame and stress it over time.
A burdened liver clears toxicants and hormones less efficiently, which ripples into energy and metabolism.
What targets it — tap to learn each one
Liver cancer is recognized at Camp Lejeune; ATSDR links solvents, arsenic, and dioxins to liver effects.
Chronic liver stress can progress; a clinician can check liver enzymes and function.
Bring this to your clinician and your VSO — they decide what testing and care, if any, is right for you. For general, whole-person ways to support your body, see Whole health.
Drafted from the government's and science's own record — VA presumptive lists (PACT Act, 38 CFR, Camp Lejeune), ATSDR ToxFAQs, IARC, and NTP. Sources are cited on every page, and this library has not yet been reviewed by a named clinician or toxicologist. This is documentation to bring to your clinician and VSO — not a diagnosis, a treatment plan, or a determination of service connection. Veterans Crisis Line: dial 988, then press 1.