If both liver and kidneys are cleaning the blood, what’s the difference between them?

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If both liver and kidneys are cleaning the blood, what’s the difference between them?

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A shorter version of all these answers is the liver takes stuff that will kill you today and turns it into stuff that will kill you in a few days. The kidney then removes this less harmful (but still harmful) stuff out of the blood.