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Six elements cannot completely make the human body.

C, H, N, O, S, P, Fe, Ca, Na, Cl, and more that I am forgetting.

Most of the human body is made of C, N, H, and O. Carbon forms different length chains, and many branched compounds as well as many ring shaped compounds with the extra bonds filled in with mostly hydrogen atoms, but also containing the other elements, especially nitrogen and oxygen. Vary the arrangement of the elements and you get a completely different compound. This allows all living tissue, human or not, to be made from just a few elements. Bones must have calcium,, phosphorus and some more stuff. Blood must have iron.

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