• sbeak@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    9 hours ago

    I think that makes sense, water is absorbed into the bloodstream, right? And then the kidneys filter the blood and the bad bits + excess water is peed out. Which is why your pee looks saturated yellow if you are dehydrated and almost clear (but don’t drink it!) when you have drank a lot of water.

    Any remaining water in your digestive tract that isn’t absorbed would be in your poos! If you have diarrhoea and your poos are all liquidy, that means water is not being absorbed properly (bad!)

    I didn’t do Biology, I’m a Physics+Chem student, so this could be completely wrong!

    • kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      3 hours ago

      thanks for reminding me not to drink pee, if you didnt tell me that, i wouldve done it

  • TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    12 hours ago

    I mean, the water does have to come from SOMEWHERE, so strictly speaking that way of looking at it is not wrong, just ignoring a few steps.

  • rumba@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    25
    ·
    15 hours ago

    That, and then you realize that you primarily lose weight through your breathing.

      • Kairos@lemmy.today
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        13 hours ago

        The atoms in the air you’re breathing are billions of years old, and the molecules could have been made 5 minutes or a billion years ago. Probably both in the same breath.

          • remotelove@lemmy.ca
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            11 hours ago

            Well, it’s kinda cool to look around and also realize that much of what you see likely came from multiple supernovae and/or kilonovae. (Huh. I have never needed to pluralize the word ‘kilonova’ before. Meh… It looks cool with the ‘e’, so I’ll leave it.)

            Eventually, our atoms are going to get blasted out across the universe again to maybe become part of some other planetary system, before it eventually gets destroyed or sucked into blackhole and is evaporated as radiation. This might not even be the first universe our bits have been a part of …

  • PillowD@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    19 hours ago

    Instead of ‘You are what you eat.’ it is “You are what you don’t shit.”

  • Reborn_Mormon@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    51
    ·
    1 day ago

    Listen, urine comes from your no-no spot and I want to drink it straight from the tap because I am an alchemist and know urine’s true potential. Please, everyone, pee on me to make me more powerful, and I will defeat Donald Trump in this next election…

      • Reborn_Mormon@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        11
        ·
        23 hours ago

        Damn right! That’s my teleological purpose! I offend both the religious and secular, and thus make more religious. I’ve invented Mormon Occultism. People that rebel in the Mormon church will find me as I am the quasi-opposition of orthodox religious congregations, while people who seek truth from a secular perspective can debate me and I will win having studied philosophy into the 30th grade. This makes me an attractor membrane to orthodox Mormonism. God thought thus through for me, because God knows my dumb ass wouldn’t have come up with this myself, because damn am I a horny son of a bitch.

  • Lemming6969@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    58
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    Guess where almost all your fatass has to go in order to lose it? Your lungs. You have to breathe out more than goes into your face hole. That’s a lot of breathing.

    • Art3mis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      26
      ·
      23 hours ago

      I used to try to exhale harder than inhaled to mestabolize alcohol faster when i got the spins so i could drink more.

      Im 2.5 years sober now lmao

      • Kage520@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        21
        ·
        22 hours ago

        It’s the krebs cycle. If you look at how sugar is broken down by the cells to make atp, the actual energy your cells use, it takes C6H12O6 (sugar) and makes it into a few CO2 and H2O, getting energy (atp) from breaking it down into the components. That CO2 is then exhaled, which is I think what OP is referring to.

        Note: it’s been a long time since I learned that in class so it is most likely somewhat incorrect

    • SPOOSER@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      20 hours ago

      Jokes on you I’m constantly breathing whether I’m awake or asleep! I only eat like, two times a day! Checkmate!