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!!
In: Biology
The liquids you take in do indeed go into your stomach, then into your intestines. During these steps, they are absorbed into your bloodstream and distributed throughout your body to the cells that need them. One way that the water you drink is used is as a way to dilute and eliminate toxic wastes that your body makes (like urea and ammonia). Your blood carries that water and toxic waste to the kidneys, where it’s filtered out, and stored in the bladder until you pee. Other wastes, like alcohol and sugar etc. from what you drank, are also eliminated this way. But technically, the water in your pee has done a lot of work from the time you drink it to the time you pee it.
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