A hot day, and you have just lowered a few glasses of water, in a row. After the sudden urge following the two bean-shaped organs that act as well-prepared internal nerves. They measure the amount of fluid in your body, detect waste in your blood, and know when to release the vitamins, minerals, and hormones you need to stay healthy. Greet your kidneys. The main role of these structures is to dispose of waste and convert it into urine. Eight gallons of blood pass through the kidneys between 20 and 25 times a day, which means that, in total, these organs filter out about 50 gallons [180 L] every 24 hours. The ingredients in your blood are constantly changing as you eat and drink, which explains why the kidneys need to function permanently. The blood enters each kidney through the arteries of each branch, until it forms small vessels that include special internal modules, called nephrons. For each seed, one million of these nephrons form a powerful array of filters and nerves that carefully filter the blood. This is where we see how refined and accurate this internal hearing system is. To filter the blood, each nephron uses two powerful pieces of machinery: a blob-like structure called glomerulus, and a long, corded, grass-like tube. Glomerulus acts as a filter, allowing only certain ingredients, such as vitamins and minerals, to pass through the tubule. After that, the task of this vessel is to determine if any of these nutrients are needed in the body. If so, they are reabsorbed by the body, so that they can circulate in the blood again. But the blood does not contain only the essential ingredients. It contains garbage products, too. And nephrons have to figure out what to do with them. The concept of tubules encompasses an unwanted body, such as urea, which is left over from protein degradation, and redirects them like urine from the kidneys and two long fluids called sewage pipes. The tubes drain the contents of the bladder from the bladder, removing your body from the problem and from the rest of the body. There is water in that urine, too. If the kidneys get too much of your blood, for example, if you touch too many glasses at once, it sends extra fluid into the bladder to remove it. On the other hand, low levels of water in the blood cause the kidneys to return to the bloodstream, which means less water makes them urine. This is why urine looks yellow if you do not have a lot of water. By regulating water, your kidneys strengthen your body's immune system. But this good measure of balance is not only the ability of the kidneys. These organs have the ability to use vitamin D to produce a hormone called reninthat that raises blood pressure, and another hormone called erythropoietin, which increases the production of red blood cells. Without the kidneys, our body fluids would be out of control. Each time we ate, our blood would have to carry another load of uncooked ingredients. Soon, a lot of waste will fill many systems and we will run out of time. So each kid is not just about keeping things running smoothly. It keeps us alive again. I'm lucky then to have two magic beans.
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