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The Kidneys

Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's Medical Podcast

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How to Get Rid of Ammonia

If it accumulates, ammonia can hurt us. So we need to find a way to get rid of the ammonia. In actual fact, we take two ammonia with some carbon dioxide, add a little bit of energy, ATP, and we've got urea. This is a way, it sort of buffers out that ammonia, gets rid of that toxic ammonia,. puts it in a form which the body can sort of handle a little bit better. But it costs energy to do so. It's tell, you know, our body really wants to do things that are energy-saving. We'll come back to this exact point.

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