Sentences with phrase «body as a waste product»

By contrast, about half the protein in cow's milk passes through the baby's body as a waste product.

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Since blood flows throughout the body, acting as a medium for providing oxygen and nutrients, and drawing waste products back to the excretory systems for disposal, the state of the bloodstream affects, or is affected by, many medical conditions.

As these products wash off our bodies or leave through our digestive waste process, they go down the drain and into rivers, streams, and open water.

Some people get hung up on the fact that breast milk came out of our body and it becomes equated with waste products we produce, such as urine.

In a related Comment published today in The Lancet, Jonathan Barasch, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and pathology and cell biology at CUMC, and colleagues Drs. Joseph Bonventre (Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital) and Richard Zager (University of Washington Medicine) explain that the blood test, which measures serum creatinine — a waste product that is removed by the kidneys and excreted in urine — only offers a snapshot of the kidney's function at a given moment, which can vary depending on individual factors such as body size and muscle mass.

Since blood flows throughout the body, acting as a medium for providing oxygen and other nutrients, and drawing waste products back to the excretory systems for disposal, the state of the bloodstream affects, or is affected by, many medical conditions.

As a holistic nutritionist, I'm always looking for ways to improve my health, from the foods I eat, the products I put on my body, how I manage my stress levels to how effectively I'm eliminating toxic waste.

This means your body builds muscle up quicker and removes waste products, such as lactic acid, quicker.

These immune cells are responsible for gobbling up amyloid - beta as well as other waste products inside the body and brain.

Found naturally in watermelon - plays an integral role in increasing blood flow to the working muscles as well as helping to get rid of «waste products» like ammonia that accumulate in the body during exercise that can make you feel sore and achy for days after.

Consisting of vessels, spleen, thymus, and fluid - filled lymph nodes, the lymphatic system plays an integral role in absorbing excess fats and fluids, fighting infection by addressing toxins that are introduced to the body from both external means (food, air, personal care products, environmental pollution, and water) as well as internal ones (damaged proteins and cellular / metabolic waste), making it a crucial detoxification pathway.

The complex lymphatic system acts as the body's drainage system, a sewage system for cellular metabolic toxins, filtering and removing waste by products from the body.

Lymph nodes act as small filters that trap waste products in the lymphatic fluid and eliminate them from the body.

Unfortunately many of the millions of metabolic reactions that assure our body life produce acidic end - products as wastes.

Basically, it is the process of transforming «toxins» that enter (via medications, skin care products, air, food etc) or accumulate in our body (as a by - product of metabolism, hormones etc) into waste products that can be readily excreted (via poop or pee).

In low doses, vitamin C behaves as an anti-oxidant, helping the body neutralize toxins and eliminate waste products.

The skin and respiratory systems play a role in ridding the body of waste products as well through the sweat glands.

It must be remembered, urine is a waste product from the body, and the many and complex compounds contained in this waste substance serve to tell us more about what the body has retained, as well as wasted, rather than what the actual body stores of minerals are.

This factory also produces waste products which can not be used by the body and is eliminated as human waste, urine, sweat, etc..

These bacteria, yeasts and fungi can produce beneficial waste products as they feast on your digesting food, such as B and K vitamins that your body needs.

Once these old proteins are degraded into component amino acids, our bodies decide whether these proteins are flushed out into the kidneys as waste products, or retained to make new proteins.

Our body also produces toxins through normal cell activity and are known as waste products such as ammonia and lactic acid.

It serves as a carrier for nutrients and waste products, it acts as the main thermoregulatory agent to control your body temperature, it takes part in the biochemical breakdown of what you eat (protein, fats, carbs) and the list goes on and on.

Bile is also responsible for getting rid of certain waste products from the body, such as hemoglobin from destroyed red blood cells, and excess cholesterol.

In its excretory function, bile acts as a carrier for toxins and waste products being excreted from the body.

A detox is a more targeted to remove an unwanted (and specific) waste product or substance from the body such as exposure to chemicals such as pesticides, overindulgence in alcohol, use of certain medications, etc..

Microbes such as intestinal bacteria, foreign bacteria, yeasts and parasites all release metabolic waste products and are examples of toxins that our body must handle.

Vegetables such as asparagus, lettuce, spinach, celery and peppers are full of fiber, an essential dietary substance that helps move digestive waste products through your body, aids in maintaining stable blood sugar levels and lowers cholesterol.

These diets consist of a number of products, with detox tea being a mainstay of these regimes, that are aimed to improve health and well - being by aiding organs such as the liver and kidneys in carrying out their roles in removing waste products from the body.

Far from being a «waste product» or the limiting factor in performance as once thought, this metabolite of muscle lactic acid is always being produced, and serves as an important source of energy for the whole body.

When the heart gets going, thereby increasing circulation, you get fresh blood coursing through the body, carrying oxygen and nutrients to every cell, as well as removing waste products.

According to Dr. Ariel Policano, a naturopathic physician, watermelon helps the liver process ammonia — a toxic nitrogen - containing waste product left over from amino acid metabolism and converts it into a molecule known as urea, a component of urine that is safely excreted from the body.

You're staying AWAY from failure so that you can PERFORM better and get more reps.. When you stay short of failure, your body doesn't accumulate metabolic waste products as quickly and you'll be able to perform more reps for a longer period.

As well, when our digestion is working properly, we'll naturally have increased energy levels as accumulated toxic waste and metabolic by - products are being eliminated out of our body (woo hoo!As well, when our digestion is working properly, we'll naturally have increased energy levels as accumulated toxic waste and metabolic by - products are being eliminated out of our body (woo hoo!as accumulated toxic waste and metabolic by - products are being eliminated out of our body (woo hoo!).

It produces toxins as it multiplies, and the major waste product of yeast cell activity is acetaldehyde (the same compound that your liver must break down when you drink alcohol), a toxin that promotes free radical activity in the body.

You're staying AWAY from failure so that you can PERFORM better and get more reps.. When you stay short of failure, your body doesn't accumlate metabolic waste products as quickly and you'll be able to perform more reps for a longer period.

Environmental toxins, as well as toxins from the foods we eat, and even toxins from the body's normal waste products can wreak havoc on the skin, too.

Your kidneys are there to filter your blood and get rid of waste products through urine, so when you're dehydrated, they make your urine as concentrated as possible to keep water and electrolytes in the body while still getting rid of waste products.

As it breaks up, your lymph system will carry away the waste products and your body will repair it with new tissue.

Everything your hamster's body does, from movement to breathing to digestion, creates free radicals as waste products.

By acting as antioxidants, they protect the body from free radicals, which are dangerous metabolic waste products that carry a high charge which causes them to «steal» electrons from the particles that make up body cells.

You may have heard that some dogs develop a food allergy to common meats like these and can't process them but that is usually true of foods that include meat by - products such as otherwise unusable body parts that should be discarded as waste.

Among them are: to filter metabolic waste such as urea, mineral salts, and various toxins from circulating blood; to help regulate the volume of body fluids and the blood levels of important chemicals and hormones; to initiate the recirculation of purified blood throughout an animal's system; and to facilitate the excretion of the filtered - out waste products (mixed with water to form urine) before they reach toxic concentrations in the body.

The kidneys serve a number of purposes; they produce urine and filter waste products from the body, regulate electrolytes such as potassium and phosphorous, they produce erythropoietin which stimulates red blood cell production by the bone marrow, and they contribute toward regulating blood pressure.

Free radicals are completely natural — our dog's bodies produce them as waste products during most metabolic processes — but they are also quite dangerous.

Antioxidants, like those found in herbs such as coriander, are believed to improve overall health by protecting body cells from the harmful effects of highly charged, highly reactive metabolic waste products known as free radicals.