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thedragonsfate · 7 months

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since I'm thinking abt it, I feel like it's always a good time for the reminder that your kidneys main function is to filter your blood to balance your body's fluids and remove waste to be released out of your body in your urine

if your kidneys are functioning properly then they are already doing any "cleansing of toxins" your system may need automatically all of the time, just like they're doing in the bodies of countless other species

The human body is very successful at surviving and has evolved to do so!! it's a very cool thing the way your body works to support your everyday life in ways that can pretty much eliminate the need to manually enact basic survival functions like the beating of your heart or the filtering of waste harmful to your body!

I guess I just wanna say like. unless you truly have kidney disease or other organ failures/disfunctions - in which case definitely do seek medical intervention - you can trust your body to take care of that for you

don't let anybody shame you into thinking you should be out here doing cleanses and paying significant money to try to hack into what your body is already doing for you naturally,

and try not to let human intelligence and ego undermine the success of a body plan that has been successful for vertebrates for at LEAST tens of millions of years

#in case anyone actually sees this post :#I'm not a medical doctor #and I'm not an evolutionary biologist (maybe someday)#and I'm not an archeologist nor doing have any expertise in geologic time #but I was thinking abt my old roommate sophomore year of collage #college*#and the ease with which people can believe they're failing their bodies health by not buying into certain things #when they are not regularly reminded or otherwise informed about the ways in which nature has already found solutions #it's easy to buy into a juice cleanse if you think you're unhealthy and don't have the knowledge of kidney function active in the front of #your mind #it's easy to buy into a lot of things if you're sold them a certain way #but a lot of these things are trying to reinvent a wheel that can't be removed from the vehicle yk?#not to say that it's all harmful or useless that's too broad #but its good to be aware of base processes connected to the problem you're looking to solve #before investing in additional solutions #this is not to say that your body does everything #or even everything it's supposed to #all of the time #just that like #it's good to check in with yourself about what your body IS doing #as a step in that problem solving #bc sometimes the solution is built into you already #and the problem has been sold to you in exaggeration #idk #this is honestly kind of a vent bxbzjsjd

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