Todd Brandt MD ⁽²⁾

Your urinary tract is constantly working, making urine, balancing your electrolytes, regulating calcium balance and blood pressure within your body. Most people don’t think about the urinary tract until something goes terribly wrong: a kidney stone, pain in the pelvis, blood in the urine, burning…

How Kidneys Make Urine… The blood enters the glomerulus through the afferent arteriole (red arrows). The glomerulus filters the blood to make urine (yellow). The filtered blood exits via efferent arteriole (blue arrow). The nephron is the functional unit of the kidney. The glomerulus is…