Does the water that we drink become blood? If so, how often?
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If you took out a sample of your blood and separated all the components, one of the biggest components would be plasma. Plasma is about 90% water with the rest of it being proteins, salts, and other junk dissolved in. Red blood cells (RBCs) are what bring nutrients and oxygen to your cells. RBCs are made in your bone marrow. You can imagine your vascular system as a river with a ton of boats on it. The river itself is the plasma and the boats are the RBCs.
Water also exists inside your cells (intracellular fluid), outside your cells in the tissues (extracellular fluid) and tons of other places. The water gets there by diffusing out of your blood vessels.
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