as I was told from early education that the air we currently breathe in contains 21% oxygen and 77-ish% of nitrogen and the rest are other particles.
So I have a dumb question on what the body uses nitrogen we breathe in for?
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Aside from providing pressure to the air we do need which allows us to breathe it in, you should consider that we are merely surviving in this world; it wasn’t MADE for us so there are a lot of adapted actions that are wasteful, regardless of how imperitive they are for survival. Look at trout spawning 1,000s of young only to have a few survive. Seems wasteful, but in the trouts evolutionary journey this is whats working for it right now. Maybe in the future we’ll find ways to extract and utilize only the reactants we need to survive rather than passing all the extra “waste” we currently do just by existing.
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