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you're using those raw materials
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to build other molecules but there are
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waste products of that process of
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breaking down and building back up molecules.
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A waste product of sugar metabolism is carbon dioxide,
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where it is the final form of carbon in the body is carbon dioxide.
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You get rid of that not in the kidney largely,
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but mainly in the lung by breathing out CO2.
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The main product of nitrogen metabolism--
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and where does nitrogen come from?
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It comes from proteins that we eat.
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In the Western world, in developed worlds,