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What Roles do Oxygen and Water Play in the Human Body?

What Roles do Oxygen and Water Play in the Human Body?. By: Eric Sweet Monica Rains. Water fun facts. The total amount of water in the body of an average adult is 37 liters. Human brains are 75% water. Human bones are 25% water. Human blood is 83% water.

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What Roles do Oxygen and Water Play in the Human Body?

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  1. What Roles do Oxygen and Water Play in the Human Body? By: Eric Sweet Monica Rains

  2. Water fun facts • The total amount of water in the body of an average adult is 37 liters. • Human brains are 75% water. • Human bones are 25% water. • Human blood is 83% water. • A human loses 250 ml of water a day through breathing. • You will live for less than a week without water

  3. Water’s Role in the Body • Water is an excellent treatment for fluid retention. • It carries nutrients throughout the body. • It improves digestion. • It eliminates waste and toxins from body.

  4. Water’s Role in Fluid Retention • Protects water if you begin to lose it or become dehydrated. • This safety water is stored in extracellular spaces causing swelling of ankles, legs and arms. • Once you restore water to body, the swelling will decrease.

  5. Water’s Role in Eliminating Waste • Helps flush out any weight lost through exercise or diet. • Lessens the burden on the Kidneys. • Helps prevent constipation. • Helps dissolve any build up of minerals in your body.

  6. Oxygen • Forms chemical bonds with almost every element. • Oxygen in the atmosphere, O3, protects us from UV rays. • Needed by Body in order to maintain life.

  7. Oxygen’s Role In the Cardio. System • Is carried by Red Blood Cells(RBC) in the blood to other body systems/ to other organs. • Helps keep the heart pumping by giving oxygen to the blood supplying the heart.

  8. Oxygen’s Role in the Respiratory System • The Respiratory System delivers oxygen to the Cardiovascular System through the Alveoli. • Where all oxygen is received.

  9. Oxygen’s Role in Cellular Resp. • In cellular respiration oxygen is reduced from glucose, C6H12O6, which is broken down to form ATP. ATP is needed for energy in all cells in the human body.

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