The functions of our kidneys

All people have two kidneys lying on the back wall of the abdomen. The kidneys contain a complicated system of filters and tubes. Apart from the main function of filtering off impurities from the blood, they enable many essential nutritions to be absorted back into the bloodstream from the tubes.

The functions of the kidneys as kidneys has small filtering units called nephrons which cleanse the blood of waste products. and assists with the control of blood pressure. The kidney is the main source of epotien hormone which is essential for red blood cell production and also removes excessive fluits from the body. Others functions of the kidney is to regulates the amount of salt acid, salkaline and others chemicals in our body to maintain physiological balance and its produces an active form of vitamin D, which help maintain the health of our bones.