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The Kidneys’ Flawless Purification
System

It is no easy task to invent a machine just 10 cm
(4 in) in size and then establish a system to purify
the blood, water, and other fluids inside it. A whole
factory would be needed to accomplish these tasks.
Even if one managed to do this in such a small
space, the performance and results would still be
inadequate. One might manage to purify water or
other fluids, but doing so for blood, which is essen-
tial for human beings, has not yet been achieved in
such a small device.
However, all human beings are actually per-
fect examples of this special purification system,
thanks to the kidneys, each one of which is about 10

cm (4 in) in size and weighs 100 grams (3.5 ounce).
This small space harbors around 1 million micro-
purifiers that constantly clean the blood, which car-
ries everything that makes continued life possible,
and regulate the density of the water that reaches
all of your cells and tissues. The kidneys, which
know how much fluid is in your tissues as well as
its level of concentration, carry out the necessary
adjustments by His will so that we can go on living
without difficulty.
Everybody more or less knows what happens
when the kidneys fail to function: the person is
hooked up to a dialysis machine several times a
week until a new kidney can be transplanted.
When the machine can no longer fulfill its purpose,