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What provides the human brain with oxygen and nourishment?

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The carotid artery provides the brain with the blood that carries the blood and oxygen.

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Blood provides the brain and all of our other organs with the oxygen and nourishment it needs. Blood is kind of like the body's highway, it gets everything where it needs to go.

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