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Chapter Ten : Acid-Base Physiology

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The Chemistry of Hydrogen Concentration in the Kidneys

This chapter goes through the mathematics of how powerful the fact that you can alter the bicarb concentration and alter the CO2 concentration. We're gonna discuss in this episode the intracellular extracellular buffering and the respiratory mechanisms, but we're not gonna get into the way the kidneys handle acid loads. That's gonna be the following chapter. And my favorite part of this chapter was running through the math of how powerful ventilation is in terms of regulating hydrogen concentration.

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