Top 10 awesome and small facts about the human body

Top 10 awesome and small facts about the human body

1. For each pound of fat, you add seven miles of new blood vessels.

New tissue requires a blood supply, so your vascular system expands to accommodate it. It means your heart has to work harder to pump blood through a new network, which may reduce oxygen and nutrient replenishment in other tissues. Lose a pound? Your body will break down and reopen unnecessary blood vessels from previous tissue.

1. Muscle tissue is three times more efficient in burning calories than fat.

This is why keeping more muscle should be a training goal for most people. More muscle = more calories burned = less fat = looking more fit. Simple goals and simple mathematics.

1. You are taller in the morning than in the evening.

When you crawl from the sack in the morning, you are at your highest position. On average, you are about a one-half inch taller as soon as you wake up in the morning, due to the excess fluid between your spinal discs. These fluids refill while you are sleeping. During the day, your body has to deal with the stress of standing, so the disc becomes compressed, and the fluid gets out. This causes you to lose small amounts of excess.

1. Your stomach creates a new lining every three days to avoid digesting itself.

As a part of the digestive process, your stomach secretes hydrochloric acid (HA). HA is a powerful corrosive compound that is also used to treat various metals. Yes, your stomach secretion is also powerful, but the mucous lining of the stomach wall keeps it within the digestive system. As a result, it breaks the food you ingest, but not your own stomach.

1. Your body produces enough heat to boil half a gallon of water in just thirty minutes.

Your body symbolizes a study on the laws of thermodynamics. You produce heat from all of that - exercise, metabolizing food, maintaining homeostasis - and as you sweat, exhale, and urinate (lovely thoughts, all of them).

1. Human bone is strong like granite, relative to supporting the resistance.

Would you believe that a matchstick-shaped bone can support 18,000 pounds? Compared to concrete, human bone support is four times higher in strength.

1. Your skin is an organ.

Like the liver, heart, and kidneys, your outer covering is an organ. About twenty square feet of space is enough on an average man's body. For an average woman, it is about seventeen square feet. About 12% of your weight is from your skin. And, your skin turns 45,000+ cells in just seconds. It is constantly shedding new skin and old skin.

1. By the age of eighteen, your brain stops growing.

From that age forward, it starts losing more than 1,000 brain cells every day. Only two percent of your body weight is occupied by your gray matter, but it uses up to 20% of your overall energy production (it needs carbohydrates). Even when you are sleeping, your brain works continuously and never rests in addition to producing dreams of REM, your brain functions to replenish your ability to function normally during the waking hours of your day.

1. There are more than 600 individual skeletal muscles and 206 bones in your body.

If all 600+ muscles are contracted and pulled in the same direction, you can lift more than twenty tons of resistance. Additionally, the adult skeleton is composed of 206 bones, but at birth, an infant skeleton consists of about 350 bones. Over time, some of the 350 bones fuse together and eventually grow to 206 adult figures.

1. You have to consume a quarter of water every day for four months to equal the blood volume of your heart pumps in one hour.

Additionally, over your lifetime, at your normal (resting) heart rate, you will have enough blood to fill a thirteen oil supertanker. To expand further on this fact, on average, your heart beats 40,000,000 times per year. Doing the math, over your lifetime (on average by both men and women), resulted in 2,600,000,000 heartbeats (two billion, six hundred million). It is also not a factor for your increased beats due to your love of exercise.

 These are just ten things you probably didn't know about the body. Very amazing stuff! There is a lot to learn about the human body, and I recommend you to discover these facts by being curious.