Might seem like a silly question, but I’m not sure of the specifics on how a drink goes from your throat to your bladder.
Doesn’t the liquid go to your stomach along with the food you eat? Does it get evaporated by the acid or something? Does it go from your esophagus to your stomach to your intestines then bladder?
Or is urine not even partially the liquid we drink, but the end result of whatever liquids your body produced/was left with after digesting your drink, like how shit is what’s left and stored in the rectum (anus?) before expulsions?
This is just something that the specifics of which have been bothering me for over a handful of months lol. Would definitely appreciate an answer, but also semi-interested in a little more detail too if anyone would like to indulge that.
Thank you!!
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Same path as food. Mouth, throat, stomach, small intestine, large intestine. It’s absorbed a little bit in each place into the bloodstream, which brings it to the kidneys. Kidneys take water and dissolved solids, and through the loop of henle takes most of the water out, leaving a thick sludge of solutes, and then depending on how hydrated you are adds the water back in, diluting it. The more water to dissolve it, the clearer it is, which is why when you’re hydrated it’s clear pee, because your body can let go of that extra water to dilute the sludge. Then it goes to your bladder where it’s held until you’re ready to go pee
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