How Your Lungs Work

Date: 12/29/17

Keeping you alive and breathing is no joke. That’s why your lungs work 24/7 to get oxygen into your body and move carbon dioxide out.

It’s a process with a lot of numbers. Like the 1,500 miles of airways that run through your lungs. Or the 17,000 breaths you take every day. Or the six liters of air your lungs can hold. That’s about the same as three large soda bottles.

You breathe in a little more than 2,000 gallons of air daily. During the day, air moves down your windpipe into tubes that branch into smaller passages. Then small air sacs bring oxygen into your blood.

Read more about how your lungs work on the American Lung Association website.