The human body is an amazing thing! It can do so many things and it’s also fragile in many ways. As someone who runs their own business, you should understand how your body helps you run it and take care of yourself so that you can be at your best all the time. Here are 10 amazing facts about the human body that will blow your mind and help you love your body even more!
We have two legs
If you had to choose one of your two legs, which would you choose? You probably don't know how important that decision is. A patient suffering from paraplegia could feel a return of sensation and control as high as 55% just by changing their position on the chair and uncrossing their legs. Believe it or not, your lower limb muscles do most of their work to stabilize you when you're standing.If you were invisible, you would appear blue
- If you were invisible, you would appear blue. 2. Your eyes are always moving, even when your're not looking in any direction at all. 3. Each person's left ear is a perfect mirror image of their right ear. 4. The fastest recorded speed of a human running is 27mph (45km/h). 5. Babies who have been breastfed are less likely to have Type 2 diabetes or grow up to be obese as adults than those who were not breastfed as infants 6.
We have more cells than we have bones
The average adult has 40 trillion cells. That's more than the number of stars in our Milky Way galaxy! While there is not a definitive answer as to how many bones an adult has, it is known that humans have 206 bones. This means that cells outnumber bones by 200 to 1.We can change blood type if needed
Unlike what some may think, blood type is determined by more than just an O or a B. Type A is when you have both A and B antigens on your red blood cells. And, if someone is AB+, they have both A and B antigen on their red blood cells but also another antigen called the 'Rh' or Rhesus factor. In addition to all of this, it's important to know that your dad's sperm decides whether you're type O+ or type A+. Yikes!There are only 6 muscles in your face
The human brain is estimated to be 2% of your total weight, yet it uses 20% of your oxygen and 25% of your blood. To make up for this, you only need an ounce of brain matter to create 80 ounces of cerebrospinal fluid which acts as a cushion and protects your brains from jarring movements like jumping or falling.
Did you know that children can grow up to 4-5 inches a year? That's due to growth plates at the end of their long bones called epiphyses (connected via growth plates) which get bigger with more use. The more they run around outside playing, the more nutrients they get delivered to their plates.We all produce the same amount of bacteria as a goat
If we didn't produce any, we'd die. Bacteria produce energy and vitamins that we can't make on our own. But bacteria also outnumber cells in the average person by 10 to 1! And some of these bacteria release powerful substances that kill other dangerous types of bacteria--antibiotics, for example.Our skin never stops growing (even though it’s not true, it sounds fun!)
We shed and regenerate at least 30,000 skin cells every hour. We have as many skin cells as we have blood cells. Skin is a sensory organ that can detect temperature, pain, and other sensations. Finally, one square inch of skin has 650 sweat glands (and produces up to half a pint of sweat each day).Everyone Has A Different Fingerprint
All of these things make fingerprints and DNA so powerful, because they're like a one-of-a-kind signature. No two people have ever had the same fingerprint or DNA, which means that no two people in history could have the same prints or DNA sequence. And since no two fingerprints look alike and neither do any two people, this makes them a nearly perfect crime-fighting tool. In some cases, even tiny fragments of prints can be used to identify an individual with 100% accuracy.
Your skin is also incredible because it's made up of many different layers and functions as both a barrier against external elements and a way to bring nutrients into your body.Blue eyes do exist outside of cartoons and anime
The iris of the eye is made up of two sets of colored layers - these help scatter light and produce different colors in people. This multilayered iris contributes to why blue eyes are so rare, while brown eyes (with only one layer) make up 95% of the world's population. There are fewer blue-eyed people because having lighter-colored eyes gives a significant advantage to hunters in primitive societies who must judge whether an animal was far enough away to pursue or it they were being watched by other members of their clan. Lighter-colored eyes give individuals a wider range than darker ones, making it easier for them to notice small movements at greater distances. This extra ability would have allowed more time for successful hunts and therefore meant more food for children and parents.The Fingernails grow faster than any other part of the body!
We all know that we have a lot of parts in our body, but did you know that fingernails grow at least five times faster than any other part of the body? There's nothing quite like standing there watching your cuticles grow before your eyes. As a matter of fact, nail growth is more so an act of regeneration than a process of lengthening. Fingernails actually don't grow from the end at all - it's really just an accumulation of layers as new cells replace old ones. The whole nail-building process takes place below and can take up to half a year. And while we're talking nails, let's chat calluses for a second - they're simply hardened skin made of keratin (a type of protein). But what do they do?