12 Facts About Our Body

The human body is perhaps the most complex compositions to have ever existed. Here’s some awesome facts about our body.

1. We contain trillions of bacteria - We have trillions of bacteria living in our bodies and helping regulate inflammation and disease.
2. Your eye is your fastest muscle - A blink typically can last 100-150 milliseconds.
3. Only 2% of humans have green eyes - The largest concentration of green-eyed peoples is in Ireland, Scotland, and Northern Europe. All babies are born with blue or brown eyes. Green eyes can take between six months and three years to appear in children.
4. The only muscle that never tires is the heart - Your heart is made of cardiac muscle, this type of muscle only exists in your heart. Unlike other types of muscle, cardiac muscle never gets tired. It works automatically and constantly without ever pausing to rest. 
5. The skin is your largest organ - The skin accounts for about 15 percent of our body weight and its importance is massively under-appreciated. It keeps everything on the inside from coming out, but it also helps keep us at the right temperature, helps us with touch and sensation, allows us to move without restriction (not too tight or too loose), heals and regenerates constantly.
6. The tongue is covered in about 8,000 taste buds - Each containing up to 100 cells helping you taste your food. 
7. If you walked for 12 hours a day - It would take the average person 690 days to walk around the world.
8. When we breathe, we favour one nostril - We naturally tend to alternate from one nostril then the other as this helps keep the air we breathe moist so as not to irritate our lungs. But our bodies give one nostril a break while the other is active – we just don't know we do it.
9. We don't know why we yawn - Many animals seem to do it, and there are different theories as to why we do. Some say it helps get more oxygen in, others think it helps regulate temperature. Either way, we all do it, we just don't why.
10. Eyes remain almost the same size your entire life - Although our nose and ears keep growing throughout our lives, our eyes remain the same size from birth. By three months, our eyes are the same size that they will ever be as the corneas have reached their full width.
11. We erase and reform our memories - We imagine that when we remember an event or something in the past, it is like playing a recorded file in a computer. But actually our brain re-writes the memory each time we think of it, slowly altering it or twisting it over time.
12. Every second, you produce 25 million cells - Every new cell is reproduced from the template of our DNA.

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Until next month, Evie xx

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