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nutrients

noun as in source of nourishment

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Hormones like estrogen and progesterone ebb and flow throughout the month, influencing everything from how women respond to training, metabolize nutrients, and regulate body temperature and hydration levels.

When the dodder finds one, it latches on and infiltrates the host with tiny tubes that siphon off water and nutrients.

Too late and its host may have already died, leaving the dodder with less nutrients to support flowering.

If a key nutrient or vitamin suddenly becomes more available, for example, the biosynthetic pathways for making it may become dispensable, and mutations or other genetic accidents may make those pathways disappear.

The microorganism can also multiply in environments with favorable water, nutrient, and temperature conditions.

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It drains your body of nutrients and vitamins, attacking the central nervous system and leaving you in a dehydrated, hazy state.

As digesting food passes through the small intestine, it mixes with chemicals from the liver, and nutrients are absorbed.

As the heart pumps blood to the far reaches of the body, it requires its own blood flow to receive vital oxygen and nutrients.

Hyperemesis Gravidarum is very acute morning sickness, which may require supplementary hydration, medication and nutrients.

Key contributing factors to the development of cramps include dehydration and the loss of key nutrients known as electrolytes.

Inasmuch as water may dissolve out nutrients from vegetable tissues, it is best to boil them rapidly in a small amount of water.

In this sense all substances could be classed as toxins, even the nutrients.

The oceans are the basins into which are poured all the nutrients or wastes transported from the land by rivers and winds.

Hygienically grown in a bath of nutrients that supply all the necessary food elements.

They were home again, and Ela hurried off to add nutrients to the huge crystal sculpture that was growing in the bedroom.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to nutrients, such as: food, fiber, nutriment, health food, vitamin, and mineral.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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