A friend who taught science teachers once said that life is about water chemistry. Google says that about 60% of an adult man's body is water and about 55% of an adult woman. The difference is that fat tissue contains less water than other tissues and women have more fat. (We males are quite appreciative of the curves this fat produces at various points around the female bodies.)
An emergency room doctor said that our blood, the major transport system of needed nutrients to all cells, is in a continuous balance between liquid and solid. Blood needs to be liquid to flow but solid to stop flowing. We want our blood inside us, so flow. We don't want our blood to flow out of the body, so in the case of cuts and bleeding, don't flow.
In a daily life of coffee, (whole) milk, tea, vegetables, soup, juicy meat and smoothies, it may be easy to think that water without minerals or gas or bubbles or caffeine or sugar is no longer part of our lives but that is just an illusion. It is everyday and a big part.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) and other aspects of the University of Wisconsin has contributed to people's lives. One contribution is warfarin, a drug that we can take to increase the flow of our blood. We want to do that when our blood is clotting too much, threatening to not flow through our arteries and veins and blocking processes in the heart, lungs, brain and such.
Being properly hydrated is a major concern in general health, sports and intense muscle performance, and healing. That means that your average hospital wants to insert an intravenous tap in an arm or some place on you when you enter. They can use that to keep you hydrated, to add to your blood, and related operations. Such a tap needs to be removed and the opening needs to be healed, that is, closed over. In the removal, tape on the skin needs to be pulled off. The pulling can irritate or re-open the tap opening and if the blood is in a high-flow, low-clotting state due to an anticoagulant, it may take a while to stop bleeding and heal over. All to keep the body in proper wetness and moisture and damp and such.
