Forget emotional baggage — you’re hauling around spare parts.

Turns out, you don’t need all 78 of your organs to get through life, which comes in handy when surgeons have to start making cuts. Literally.

“Here’s the astonishing truth: For many of these internal components, a truly functional existence is not just possible, but often surprisingly robust,” Dr. Indraneil Mukherjee , a minimal invasive surgeon at Northwell’s Staten Island University Hospital, told The Post. 5

Just ask Louise Altese-Isidori, who had seven organs removed after doctors discovered her ovarian cancer had spread throughout her body. Now she’s in remission and living a mostly normal life.

“It’s a testament to the human body’s astonishing capacity for adaptation and modern medicine’s ingenious interventio

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