Why do internal organs of the body not get stronger , the same way muscles do after injury
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If you’re asking why organs don’t increase capacity and function if required, they absolutely do. To a limit. When you drink alcohol, the liver increases its capacity to deal with it. This can demonstrated both with blood tests, imaging and also by the body’s ability to accommodate to the effects.
However, if levels exceed capacity in the short term it can’t keep up, an alternative metabolism pathway is used and less pleasant compounds are produced as a by-product, making worse hangovers.
If exposure is high for long periods, the need for increased capacity results in high cell turnover, which can result in scar tissue and excess growth (cirrhosis) and potentially cancers.
That isn’t an example of lack of adaptation. It’s evidence that of an attempt to keep up but demands constantly exceeding reasonable capacity.
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