Yo diggity! I am your friendly neighborhood liver spot.

It’s a tough job, but somebody’s gotta get jiggy with it.

I’m cellular poop, a toxic byproduct of your cellular metabolism.

I’m composed of icky ocher-yellow-brown extracellular sludge.

My main ingredient is either ceroid, amyloid, or lipofuscin.

I accumulate in the nerve cells of your skin, brain, muscle, heart, liver, adrenals, and so on.

I’m often found on the back of your hand.

You can also see me as an alien pigmentation in the iris of your eye.

I’m composed of peroxidized fat and protein.

Ceroid, amyloid, and lipfuscin are breakdown products of cellular metabolism.

I flouresce under ultraviolet light. This helps differentiate me from other metabolic byproducts such as uro-roseines, porphyrins, and melanins.

If you eat loads of trans-fats and deep-fried oils, lipids accumulate in your liver and throughout your cellular mechanism.

I can choke the living daylights out of any healthy cell.

Every time you buy polyunsaturated oils at the health food store you help increase my strength and numbers, ’cause I often am chock-full of these oils.

I’m a big, bad, bodacious wear-and-tear pigment, and I’m down on the case.

I’m an Exxon oil spill in the body ecology.