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Each person ingests a large number of molecules per day with meals and snacks. A similarly large number of molecules enter the body through the respiration. Body processes – such as building proteins, producing energy and replenishing lost nutritional stores – use many of these molecules. However, there is a substantial number of molecules that are neither usable nor needed to organism and therefore, have to be eliminated from the body. Waste products are also generated during metabolic processes in organism and since they might be toxic if accumulate within the body, they should be eliminated, as well. The diversity of molecules that can be ingested is numerous and therefore, the processes of elimination, very complex.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Neils Bohr (1885–1962)
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Pavlovic, M. (2015). Waste Disposal from the Body. In: Bioengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10798-1_14
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