And so is breast milk.
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I mean, the water does have to come from SOMEWHERE, so strictly speaking that way of looking at it is not wrong, just ignoring a few steps.
peeing blood is a thing. liquid can come out of your intestines if you get norovirus.
That, and then you realize that you primarily lose weight through your breathing.
And how that is used to make trees
The atoms in the air you're breathing are billions of years old, and the molecules could have been made 5 minutes or a billion years ago. Probably both in the same breath.
Which is wiiiild.
Well, it's kinda cool to look around and also realize that much of what you see likely came from multiple supernovae and/or kilonovae. (Huh. I have never needed to pluralize the word 'kilonova' before. Meh.. It looks cool with the 'e', so I'll leave it.)
Eventually, our atoms are going to get blasted out across the universe again to maybe become part of some other planetary system, before it eventually gets destroyed or sucked into blackhole and is evaporated as radiation. This might not even be the first universe our bits have been a part of ..
Me just now
Instead of 'You are what you eat.' it is "You are what you don't shit."
...and haven't breathed out yet
Pee come out of my penis tho????
No, mine
Why is my piss coming out of y'alls dicks?!
You donate blood to save lives. I donate blood so that the recipients can pee my piss out of their dicks. We are not the same.
He's putting his piss in our dicks! Get him!
W T F ?!?
Hmm. _hemo_dialysis...
Listen, urine comes from your no-no spot and I want to drink it straight from the tap because I am an alchemist and know urine's true potential. Please, everyone, pee on me to make me more powerful, and I will defeat Donald Trump in this next election...
Guess where almost all your fatass has to go in order to lose it? Your lungs. You have to breathe out more than goes into your face hole. That's a lot of breathing.
Finally, an upside to panic attacks!
I used to try to exhale harder than inhaled to mestabolize alcohol faster when i got the spins so i could drink more.
Im 2.5 years sober now lmao
Jokes on you I'm constantly breathing whether I'm awake or asleep! I only eat like, two times a day! Checkmate!
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