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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
The average human gut is home to perhaps 500 to 1,000 different species of bacteria.
Drugs are in development that may cure asthma and hay fever once and for all. They target leukotrienes, which are known to cause tightening of the air passages in the lungs and increase mucus productions in nasal passages.
There are major differences in the metabolism of morphine and the illegal drug heroin. Morphine mostly produces its CNS effects through m-receptors, and at k- and d-receptors. Heroin has a slight affinity for opiate receptors. Most of its actions are due to metabolism to active metabolites (6-acetylmorphine, morphine, and morphine-6-glucuronide).