In chronic illness you can have multiple chronic infections that are producing biotoxin/endotoxins around the clock. You can have accumulation of toxic metals or chemicals, and an overproduction of ammonia, and many different toxins from a bowel with altered flora. Either the liver keeps up with this process of detoxification or the toxins accumulate.
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