Your Body Is Amazing Pt. 2

1 00:00:00,0 --> 00:00:05,40 Your Body is Amazing did you know that laid end to end the Airways in your lungs spanned 2 00:00:06,859 --> 00:00:10,689 2,400 Kilometers in Length Which Is a quarter of the length of the great Wall of China 3 00:00:10,820 --> 00:00:14,9 Or that the Nails on your Dominant Hand Grow Slightly Faster Hear my Voice 4 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:20,680 Thank the Three Bones in your Ear that are so small they Could all fit on a single Penny Without them you 5 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:22,680 Wouldn't Hear Anything or be able to balance? 6 00:00:22,789 --> 00:00:28,509 This includes The smallest Bone in your Body the stay Piece While the longest and Strongest is your Femur Found in your thigh 7 00:00:28,699 --> 00:00:33,758 Stronger Than Steel and Four Times Stronger Than Concrete as an Adult you only Have 206 8 00:00:33,759 --> 00:00:36,549 Bones but as a baby you Had 300 but They 9 00:00:36,550 --> 00:00:42,90 Weren't so much as lost as Simply Fused together your Lungs are Capable of Inhaling 13 Liters of Air Every Minute for a total of 10 00:00:42,160 --> 00:00:49,959 8,000 To 9,000 Liters Daily Now Breathe out Hard no Matter how much you push There's always one Liter of air Left in your Lungs 11 00:00:49,450 --> 00:00:52,689 Similarly your Stomach Is Never Fully empty 12 00:00:52,850 --> 00:00:56,370 Always Containing a fifth of A cup of Hydrochloric Acid when Upside down your Esophagus 13 00:00:57,559 --> 00:00:59,649 Prevents Partially Digested Food in Your Stomach 14 00:00:59,719 --> 00:01:04,228 From Falling Back out of your Mouth as it's Made of Muscles That Contract in A wave-like Motion Known as Peristalsis 15 00:01:05,689 --> 00:01:12,729 Ensuring unidirectional Flow in Making Anything Going in The Opposite Direction near Impossible Unless of Course you're vomiting the 16 00:01:12,890 --> 00:01:17,949 Hypothalamus in Your Brain Maintains an Optimal Body Temperature of 37, degrees Celsius and Works With the skin 17 00:01:17,950 --> 00:01:21,850 Sweat Glands and Blood Vessels to Maintain this Temperature when the external Temperature? 18 00:01:21,850 --> 00:01:27,89 Is hot the Blood vessels Dilate in an effort to Help Release more Heat and sweat Glands sweat so the evaporation cools off your skin 19 00:01:27,90 --> 00:01:31,960 When the external Temperature is Cold the blood vessels Constrict so blood Flow Is? 20 00:01:31,60 --> 00:01:36,329 Prioritized for The Vital Organs Some might Say that the liver is the hardest Working organ in the entire Body with, over 21 00:01:36,490 --> 00:01:41,369 300 Functions to Carry out On A near Daily Basis Considering its Importance it's, no 22 00:01:41,369 --> 00:01:47,769 Wonder that The largest Internal organ in your Body is the only one Capable of Regenerating Completely This 23 00:01:47,810 --> 00:01:49,320 Jack-Of-All-Trades Filters Everything that We eat and Drink 24 00:01:50,540 --> 00:01:53,279 Including Alcohol and Drugs converts Glucose Into Glycogen for Storage 25 00:01:53,409 --> 00:01:56,529 Produces Bile Which Helps Digestion and 26 00:01:56,630 --> 00:02:02,710 Even Stores iron in The Form of Ferritin your Lungs and Kidneys Work Together to Maintain and Regulate an Optimal Blood Ph of 27 00:02:02,990 --> 00:02:05,559 7.4 if Ph is higher Than 7.8 28 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:10,660 Or Lower Than 6.8 The result is Usually Death When Ph Rises the Kidneys Excrete Excess 29 00:02:10,0 --> 00:02:15,490 Bicarbonate Ions and The Lungs Try to Conserve Carbon oxide When Ph Drops the Lungs Work To remove more Carbon Dioxide 30 00:02:16,620 --> 00:02:22,579 And the Kidneys Looks Read more Hydrogen ions even Though you have Two Kidneys each of Which is no larger than a computer Mouse 31 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:24,400 you Can survive With only One Functioning at 75% 32 00:02:25,40 --> 00:02:32,200 Inside each Lies a Network of 1 To 2 Million Nephrons Which are Tiny Filters Capable of Filtering from 110 to 33 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:37,760 140 Liters of Blood Per Hour Meaning all the Blood in your Body is Filtered Through the Kidneys 34 00:02:38,580 --> 00:02:44,169 400 Times Throughout the day an Adult has 5 Litres of Blood at any given Time Which Makes Up 7 Percent of our entire Body 35 00:02:44,170 --> 00:02:48,190 Weight of Course your blood is full of red Blood cells right Now There are 25? 36 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:53,409 Trillion of them Coursing Through A mind-Boggling 100 Thousand Kilometer Network of Blood Vessels 37 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:55,970 Every Second 38 00:02:55,970 --> 00:03:02,200 2 Million Red Blood Cells die Via Filtering from your spleen but don't worry your bone Marrow is Generating 2 Million Every Second to Replace 39 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:09,9 Them your Hair Is the second Fastest Growing Part of your body Capable of Growing 6 inches per Year Though There is Variation across 40 00:03:09,260 --> 00:03:14,629 Populations With Male Hair Tending to grow Faster Than female hair as a Newborn your Lungs 41 00:03:14,630 --> 00:03:15,20 Were Filled with Fluid 42 00:03:15,20 --> 00:03:22,359 Approximately 10 Seconds After Birth You Sharply inhaled as A response to the new Environment and your Breathing Process that Sustains your life Began 43 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:26,220 Be sure to Check out our newest Videos by clicking the Screen or using the links in the Description 44 00:03:26,220 --> 00:03:30,540 Closed Captions By Hamza Farah! 45 00:03:30,540 --> 00:03:30,40 and subscribe for more Weekly science Videos Every Thursday