Kidneys are important organs in our body. It’s a pair of bean-shaped organs that lie on either side of the spine in the lower middle of the back just above your waist. It’s a sophisticated processing machine that keeps our blood clean and chemically balanced. The kidneys are no doubt important to our survival in our overall health.
There are three main functions of kidneys in our body, to remove, to regulate and to produce:
- They act as the filter to metabolic by-product, drugs, toxins, and water from the body via the blood. Once filtered, the resulting urine is taken via the ureters (thin tubes) and collected in the bladder, ready for urination.
- Regulation is the way the body keeps itself in balance. With all the external and internal changes like, food, beverage consumption, external heat and cold, internal metabolic processes, drugs, and etc that are being applied to the body, it needs to keep itself in balance.
- And produce hormones and nutrients
Facts about Kidney
Below are the lists of interesting and useful facts about kidney.
- Kidneys have a higher blood flow than our brain, liver or heart.
- Kidneys filter almost 120ml of blood per minute
- Kidneys absorb and distribute 99.9% of the blood volume. Only 0.1% of the blood filtered turns into urine.
- Chronic kidney disease occurrence has increased by 16% over the last decade – this mainly due to an aging population and the increase of diabetes, hypertension and obesity
- Each Kidney is about 5 inches long (13 centimeters) and weighs approximately 4 to 6 ounces (120-140 grams).
- The Kidneys filter almost 120ml of blood per minute.
- Kidney Disease Diet for Dialysis are by far the most practical and effective way to preserve kidney.
Kidney has about a million tiny nephrons each. A nephron is the basic functional unit of the kidney. It has a group of tiny blood vessels called a glomerulus, the small structure responsible for filtering and cleaning blood as it pass through the kidney.
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