12 Mind-Blowing Facts About Your Body
12 Mind-Blowing Facts About Your Body
The human body is perhaps the most complex compositions ever to have existed.
Jeff Foster, Medical Director of U.K. based health care provider H3 Health, suggests many of us "take our bodies for granted."
"It is only when we spend the time looking at what is really involved in what makes us human that we realize how amazing our bodies are," he told Newsweek.
I am still finding out new, weird and amazing things about the body."
Here are some of the most fascinating facts about your amazing body.
1. You Contain Trillions of Bacteria
"It has long been suggested they may affect our immune system and contribute to inflammatory arthritis, which affects over 430,000 people in the U.K.
"Versus Arthritis is funding research studying the bacteria sharing our body so we can better understand their role in the development and potential treatment of inflammatory arthritis."
2. Your Eye Is Your Fastest Muscle
Sharon Copeland, an optician at Feel Good Contacts, said the fastest-moving muscle in the human body is the orbicularis oculi, capable of contracting in less than 1/100th of a second.
She said: "A blink typically can last 100-150 milliseconds. Did you know that you blink more when talking and less when you are reading this is why you get tired when reading?
"The eye is the fastest muscle in your body – which is why we say when something happens quickly, 'in the blink of an eye!'"
3. 100,000 Miles of Blood Vessels
Dr. Foster said: "This includes veins, arteries, and communicating little capillaries that move between both.
It seems like an unrealistic number, but if you imagine every single muscle, organ, bit of skin or nerve needs its own way of getting blood and taking it away, it's not surprising how much plumbing we need.
4. Only 2% of Humans Have Green Eyes
Copeland said: "That's right, only two percent of the population have green e largest concentration of green-eyed peoples is in Ireland, Scotland, and Northern Europe.
"All races, including Asian African Caucasian pacific islanders Arabic Hispanic and the indigenous peoples of the Americas, can have green eyes.
"All babies are born with blue or brown eyes. Green eyes can take between six months and three years to appear in children."
5. All Humans Are +99% Identical
Dr. Foster said: "The visual differences or internal variations that occur in us are only due to a tiny variation in genetics."
"This is also why we are so similar to many other animals – from a genetic perspective."
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