watch Beau Lotto's video, "Seeing is Believing"Some amazing facts about our miraculous Human bodies…
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The stomach’s digestive acids are strong enough to dissolve zinc. Fortunately for us, the cells in the stomach lining renew so quickly that the acids don’t have time to dissolve it.
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The lungs contain over 300,000 million capillaries (tiny blood vessels). If they were laid end to end, they would stretch 2400km (1500 miles).
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A mans testicles manufacture 10 million new sperm cells each day – enough that he could repopulate the entire planet in only 6 months!
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Human bone is as strong as granite in supporting weight. A block of bone the size of a matchbox can support 9 tonnes – that is four times as much as concrete can support.
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Each finger and toenail takes six months to grow from base to tip.
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The largest organ in the body is the skin. In an adult man it covers about 1.9m2 (20sq ft). The skin constantly flakes away – in a lifetime each person sheds around 18kg (40 lb) of skin.
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When you sleep, you grow by about 8mm (0.3in). The next day you shrink back to your former height. The reason is that your cartilage discs are squeezed like sponges by the force of gravity when you stand or sit.
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The average person in the West eats 50 tonnes of food and drinks 50,000 liters (11,000 gallons) of liquid during his life.
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Each kidney contains 1 million individual filters. They filter an average of around 1.3 liters (2.2 pints) of blood per minute, and expel up to 1.4 liters (2.5 pints) a day of urine.
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he focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.
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In 30 minutes, the average body gives off enough heat (combined) to bring a half gallon of water to boil.
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A single human blood cell takes only 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
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The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.
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It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
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The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.
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Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
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An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
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The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year.
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The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).
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15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.
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The human body is comprised of 80% water.
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Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
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The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.
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The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).
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Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
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The average human heart will beat 3,000 million times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons of blood.
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During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.
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Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.
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Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour. That works out to about 1.5 pounds each year, so the average person will lose around 105 pounds of skin by age 70.
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Your nose is not as sensitive as a dog's, but it can remember 50,000 different scents.
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Every square inch of skin on the human body has about 32 million bacteria on it, but fortunately, the vast majority of them are harmless.
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A pair of feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of sweat a day.
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Blood has a long road to travel: Laid end to end, there are about 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. And the hard-working heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood through those vessels every day.
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You may not want to swim in your spit, but if you saved it all up, you could. In a lifetime, the average person produces about 25,000 quarts of saliva -- enough to fill two swimming pools!
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The eyes receive approximately 90 percent of all our information, making us basically visual creatures.
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There are 45 miles (72 km) of nerves in the skin of a human being.
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The body is made up of around 100 trillion cells. Hows that for a self organising system!