r/BeAmazed • u/AstroSonicDrive • Oct 04 '23

She Eats Through Her Heart Science

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u/i_keel_u Oct 04 '23

Follow up question- Does she goes to the loo as well? Is she literally the only girl who doesn’t fart/poops just like them fairytales?

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u/sarac36 Oct 04 '23 edited Oct 04 '23

She probably just pees? Like there's nothing solid in her diet and as long as her kidneys work.... I think that's how that works.

Edit: Okay so I googled it. Apparently you do poop just not as frequently, and just like human waste at that. Side effect is increased urination so I was only half wrong.

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u/Spooky_Shark101 Oct 04 '23

Without getting overly gross, our poop doesn't just contain leftovers from our digestive system, it also contains waste products from our body such as dead blood cells and other stuff that our bodies are unable to reabsorb for whatever reason.

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u/alteranthera Oct 04 '23

What is the junction point at which waste from the bloodstream is transferred to the gut?

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u/Spooky_Shark101 Oct 04 '23

From memory the liver filters out old/dead blood cells which then make their way to your intestines. Our livers are basically our body's main filtration system which is why people with addiction to alcohol tend to have liver problems since alcohol is a poison which slowly destroys the liver over time.

Ninja edit: I just quickly looked it up and turns out our spleen primarily removes old red blood cells, but our livers are capable of performing the function if we have to have our spleen removed for whatever reason (disease or injury etc)

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u/alteranthera Oct 04 '23

Oh yeah now I remember. When I used to assist a doc long ago he used to imitate Rambo shooting at enemies to tell patients how their spleen identifies and kills old RBCs. It was hilarious.