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Your kidneys filter your entire blood supply many times over in the course of a single day.

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They process something like a hundred and eighty liters of fluid a day and return almost all of it, producing a couple of liters of urine from the difference. Each kidney holds around a million filtering units, and the reabsorption step is where the real work happens: the body throws nearly everything out and then carefully takes back the water, salts and sugars it wants to keep.

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