Sentences with phrase «filter more blood»

Your kidneys work much harder, they have to filter more blood.

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The urge to pee: The kidneys of pregnant women are working much more difficult to filter the enhanced volume of blood, about 30 - 50 % more than they had better pregnancy, moving via their bodies, thereby resulting in more urine.

Men who as children had glomerular disease, a disorder of the portion of the kidney that filters blood and one that usually resolves with time, were more likely than men without childhood glomerular disease to have high blood pressure as an adult, according to a study in the March 19 issue of JAMA.

Yet according to Willem Hillenius, a physiologist at UCLA who is also a paleontologist, maxilloturbinals perform an even more fundamental task than acting as a filter: they permit mammals like us to be warm - blooded.

Rather than filter the blood, what the liver does is to create substances that combine with toxins so that they become less toxic and more easily removed from the body.

These two little hardworking organs positioned in your lower back filter all your blood, around 6 litres of it, twice every hour, filtering out any dangerous... Read More →

The Important Connection Between Your Liver And Psoriasis The liver is the largest organ in your body; it is the major cleanser and filter of the blood stream and plays a critical role in keeping you healthy and free from an incredible amount of toxins and chemicals that make their... Read More →

When the kidneys are forced to filter multiple drinks from the blood stream in a short amount of time, it is more difficult for them to remove all of the toxins from alcohol and other contaminants.

The toxic chemicals in these products can, over time result in seizures, chronic skin itching and infections, renal failure (kidney failure) and / or liver damage to the point of the liver becoming unable to filter the blood and in many cases, complete liver failure and many more dis - ease conditions.

That is because, as I mentioned earlier, the kidneys of dogs, cats and humans have large, built - in reserves — many more individual filtering units (= nephrons) than are required to cleanse the blood.

Dogs who have had their spleen removed, and therefore lack the body's primary filter for damaged red blood cells, are more susceptible to the infection.

The pumping function of the heart becomes less efficient; the liver and kidneys decrease in weight and their ability to filter toxins decreases; the thyroid and adrenal glands may decrease or increase the amount of hormone that they produce; there is a decrease in joint cartilage and muscle mass; dental disease is more common in older patients; and even the nervous system is affected as there is a decrease in blood flow to the brain and a decrease in brain function.

«Your kidneys should be filtering your blood and getting rid of your waste, and when you damage the kidneys, there's a lot more blood [in the urine],» she said.