Do you know? It would require 2500 gallons of water a day - TopicsExpress



          

Do you know? It would require 2500 gallons of water a day (that’s 40,000 glasses) to keep the body organs functioning properly, if the body didn’t have a unique method of conserving fluids. This is done by our kidneys which are a marvelous filtering system. Our kidneys weigh between 4-6 oz. each, are about 4-1/2 inches long and 2-3 inches wide, and they process an amount of blood equivalent to all that is in the human body (about five quarts) every four to five minutes. These small filters know exactly what substances to let pass by, and then they reabsorb the fluid after the poisons are passed on to the bladder as urine. The kidneys excrete one to one-and-a-half quarts of urine each day if the body is receiving enough water (8 or more glasses a day).
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 06:24:15 +0000

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