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The Balance Between Soluton and Water in Your Body

There's this dance between water and solutes in your body. Solutes can be things like calcium, sodium, electrolits,. But a, you don't need an over abundance of em in relation to the amount of water exactly. This is part ofa the homeostasis, that that a state of balance in your body's processes. Part of that is om an icatonic state, which is a balance in the solution of soluton and water.

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