20 facts about the human body that a lot of people may or may knot know. They may be strange or they may be interesting or they may be neither.
Which one is your favourite?
Do any of these impact your life post-stroke?
- 80% of everything you learn comes through your eyes
- Earwax cleans your ears
- Every day, you produce enough saliva to fill two cans of soda pop
- No one really knows why we have fingerprints
- Some people have more taste buds than others
- The gluteus maximus is the largest muscle in your body
- The sartorius is the longest muscle in your body
- Up to half your grip strength comes from your pinky
- We take in half a litre of air with each breath
- You can only last 11 days without sleep
- You see the colour green better than any other shade
- You’re born with almost 100 more bones than when you grow up
- You’re born without kneecaps
- Your blood “travels” the distance of the United States four times every day
- Your brain is more than half fat
- Your foot is the same length as the distance from your wrist to your elbow
- Your heart will beat over three billion times during your lifetime
- Your liver is the only organ that can fully regenerate itself
- Your nose can detect a trillion different scents
- Your tongue print is unique
Personal note about fact 10 - Click below to read
What lack of sleep did to Mum
“Like food and water, sleep is essential to the human body. Go too long without it, and you might start to hallucinate. The world record for going without sleep is 264 hours (a little over 11 days). Scientists don’t know quite how long we can survive without sleep, but you don’t want to try to find out!”
Though it was not obvious as it was happening, hindsight is a wonderful thing and it seems at the tail end of last year, Mum went for a period of about a month when she did not get any quality sleep.
As a result, she ended up having seizures for which she has now been consigned to anti-seizure medication for the duration …
Namaste|
