MEDSTART HEALTH FACTS
Health Facts
Did you know?
- Your bones are stronger than concrete: gram for gram, bone can withstand more pressure than concrete.
- The liver is the only major internal organ that can regenerate. It can regrow much of its lost tissue if part of it is removed.
- Your heart beats about 100,000 times everyday, pumping around 7,500 litres of blood throughout your body.
- Every second, your body produces about 2.4 million red blood cells to replace old ones.
- Your brain can generate enough electricity to power a small LED bulb. This comes from the electrical signals sent between billions of nerve cells.
- The cornea of the eye receives oxygen directly from the air, making it the only tissue in the human body without blood vessels.
- Your DNA is astonishingly long. If the DNA from all the cells in one human body were stretched end to end, it would reach billions of kilometres, far beyond the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
- Babies are born with about 270 bones, but adults have only 206 because some bones fuse together as they.
- Your brain uses 20% of your body's oxygen, despite making up only about 2% of your body weight.
- You shed around 30,000 to 40,000 dead skin cells every minute, meaning much of the dust in your home contains tiny amount of human skin.
