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What happens to the body when it does not get the water it needs?
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∙ 15y ago
A human's body water is divided into functional compartments. One is the Intercellular Compartment (inside of cells), and one is the Extracellular Compartment (outside of cells). When your body does not get enough water, then the EC suffers first and so the EC organelles and tissue becomes dehydrated. Since most cellular membranes are semi-permeable, they will allow water to be moved from inside the cell to outside the cell, which means that the cell itself becomes dehydrated, as well.
Think of the cell like a grape. When it is healthy, it is nice a plump, but when it is unhealthy and dehydrated, it looks shriveled. The shriveling changes how the membrane reacts with the environment and causes the cells to be less efficient.
Water (H2O) also has powerful reduction and oxidation purposes in the body, so your many functional systems (e.g. nervous, muscular, lymphatic) suffer from lack of a chemical that is required for many biochemical processes. A prime example is the electron transport chain. The final electron recipient on the electron transport chain (the main source of energy in metabolism) is water. If water does not exist, then energy production is halted.
Symptoms of dehydration are fatigue, headaches, heat exhaustion, and others.
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How do you use the word deyhdrated in a sentence?
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What is the starting point for everything that happens in your body?
The eusohpagosumongus part of the body.
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what happens to things that sit in water for a long time?
What your body needs?
Food, shelter and clothing minimum.
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You will become dehydrated and slowly start to die.
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The elderly get disorientation when dehydrated because the human body needs water to be able to function. What happens in the body is that motor skills and brain retention begin to slip.
What is the cause of thirsty?
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Water has many nutrients which your body needs to survive.
What does water do for body?
Water has many nutrients which your body needs to survive.
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A persons body on average needs 8 to 10 glasses of water. although i have read that during the hot summer your body needs more.
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If you had no body fat, you would die. Everybody has (and needs!) body fat.
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You will not grow as your body needs protein to grow!
How does the body prevent dehydration?
Generally the hand will lift a glass of water to the lips and tilt it back. When this happens the water goes into the mouth. After the proper amount of water is placed with in the mouth the lips will close and then something happens that I like to call "swallowing". This is when the muscles in the throat carry the water down into stomach. From here the body will absorb what it needs to rehydrate itself.
Which body part needs water to function?
Your whole body, including you brain, needs water to function or else you'll become dehydrated.
What materials do you need?
your body needs water
