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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A lot of people are saying we breath it out. We do.
But it’s not useless. For lack of better phrasing, it acts as lubricant for our alveoli in our lungs.
Without nitrogen in the air, our lungs are going to dry out and get real messed up real quick. It’ll only take a couple days for it to be totally washed out.
We probably don’t need a ton of nitrogen, but we do need some.
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