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20 interesting facts about your kidneys
The best similarity for kidneys is an update on your smartphone.
It reset your phone, basically for your phone new life.
They clean your blood and keep your body balancing chemical through its filtration system.
The worst part of kidneys?
And do you know you don't need kidneys to live?
Here are 20 interesting facts about your kidneys!
Kidney love their blood.
Because they love blood, kidneys have higher blood flow than the brain and liver.
About 25% of all blood from the heart enters the kidneys.
The baby's kidneys are very large compared to its body weight.
The adult's kidneys weigh about 5 ounces (142 grams) and the size of a fist.
Make sure you hydrate: The most common cause of kidney stones does not drink enough liquid, especially water.
The biggest kidney stone was recorded as the size of a coconut.
The kidneys must be less smaller and put lower in the body than the left kidneys.
You don't need both kidneys.
If a child was born without kidneys, the other would grow and weigh like two kidneys combined together.
Our filtering system will thank these small filter units called Nephrons.
There are about 1.15 million nphron in your body.
You can keep anywhere from 50 to 500 mililit (1,7-17 ounces) urine in your bladder.
The cool thing is that your body waits until your bladder is full of half before you go to the toilet.
Kidney also activates Vitamin D in your body - but only the last method.
You urinate between one and two liters of urine every day.
Your kidney updates your blood very often.
Kidney also pumps about 400 gallons of blood every day.
The first kidney transplant occurred in Ukraine in 1933 by Yuri Voronoy.
The first successful kidney transplant was made by Joseph E. Smith and his team in Boston in 1954.
