The thing about the process of living that most people forget about is waste removal. When you talk about what it takes for a person to live a healthy life (multicellular level), most people think about eating good food, breathing good air. While those are necessary prerequisites for a person to live, at the same time, waste products are being created by a process of energy production called cellular respiration. It is just as important...
The thing about the process of living that most people forget about is waste removal. When you talk about what it takes for a person to live a healthy life (multicellular level), most people think about eating good food, breathing good air. While those are necessary prerequisites for a person to live, at the same time, waste products are being created by a process of energy production called cellular respiration. It is just as important to get those waste products out of the body as it is to import the things necessary to live, food and oxygen. I explain it to my students like this: "Someone at your house is responsible for getting the trash out to the curb on garbage day (usually, it is them!). Has that person every forgotten to take the trash out? If that happens on a regular basis, what happens to the internal environment of the home?" Of course, if the trash starts piling up, it won't be too long until all sorts of vermin come in to secure their new food source. These vermin make waste products too, so the trash problem starts compounding. Needless to say, some of these waste products are gases, and they don't have a very fragrant aroma to them. The point is, the overall quality of the environment degrades, and in many cases, decomposes to a point of bad existence. Stop and think about how many times you have to go the restroom in the course of just one day, and you get an idea of how much waste your body creates as it conducts it's life processes.
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