Urinary System, Part 1: Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology #38

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Even though you probably don’t choose to spend a lot of time thinking about it, your pee is kind of a big deal. Today we’re talking about the anatomy of your urinary system, and how your kidneys filter metabolic waste and balance salt and water concentrations in the blood. We’ll cover how nephrons use glomerular filtration, tubular reabsorption, and tubular secretion to reabsorb water and nutrients back into the blood, and make urine with the leftovers.

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Chapters:
Introduction: Urinary System 00:00
What Do Kidneys Do? 1:25
Urinary System Structure 3:02
Nephrons 4:13
Glomerular Filtration 4:37
Tubular Reabsorption 5:14
Tubular Secretion 8:17
Urine 8:40
Review 9:10

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49 Comments

  1. Dude if you were my professor, I would be a doctor by now. Your way of teaching just resonates with me so much. So easy to absorb

  2. How can people believe that everything, including the complex kidney's, was created from nothing over billions of years? That's like leaving your garage empty for a million years and expecting a Mercedes Benz to magically build itself from nothing over millions of years. And everything on earth, including our bodies and its complex systems, are even more complex and intelligently designed than a Mercedes Benz. So it's even more absurd to believe the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything.

  3. I knew nothing about kidneys before watching this. Let’s see what I understood. Kidneys bring blood in to remove cellular waste produced by the rest of the body. Then they put good stuff back into the blood. Like a double filtration. It’s like a coffee filter, but two ways. They are centrally located within the body, so that helps to conserve energy used to pump the massive amount of blood to them that they need to filter (at any given time, 20% of your blood is in your kidneys, making pee). After the double filtration, the waste is sent to the bladder. When the bladder fills, you have to pee it out. It seems like it would be more efficient to pump the water back into the body, but I guess this is not possible since the urea must be dissolved in something in order to be expelled? But if there is excess water, why doesn’t some of it get pumped back into the body? I guess evolution isn’t perfect? Or is there a reason for this?

    Beyond that? Yea that technical jargon went way over my head. Not important to me since I don’t have to pass some stupid test

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