Your Body Is Amazing Pt. 2
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Your Body is Amazing did you know that laid end to end the Airways in your lungs spanned
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2,400 Kilometers in Length Which Is a quarter of the length of the great Wall of China
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Or that the Nails on your Dominant Hand Grow Slightly Faster Hear my Voice
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Thank the Three Bones in your Ear that are so small they Could all fit on a single Penny Without them you
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Wouldn't Hear Anything or be able to balance?
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This includes The smallest Bone in your Body the stay Piece While the longest and Strongest is your Femur Found in your thigh
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Stronger Than Steel and Four Times Stronger Than Concrete as an Adult you only Have 206
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Bones but as a baby you Had 300 but They
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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
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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
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Similarly your Stomach Is Never Fully empty
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Always Containing a fifth of A cup of Hydrochloric Acid when Upside down your Esophagus
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Prevents Partially Digested Food in Your Stomach
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From Falling Back out of your Mouth as it's Made of Muscles That Contract in A wave-like Motion Known as Peristalsis
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Ensuring unidirectional Flow in Making Anything Going in The Opposite Direction near Impossible Unless of Course you're vomiting the
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Hypothalamus in Your Brain Maintains an Optimal Body Temperature of 37, degrees Celsius and Works With the skin
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Sweat Glands and Blood Vessels to Maintain this Temperature when the external Temperature?
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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
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When the external Temperature is Cold the blood vessels Constrict so blood Flow Is?
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Prioritized for The Vital Organs Some might Say that the liver is the hardest Working organ in the entire Body with, over
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300 Functions to Carry out On A near Daily Basis Considering its Importance it's, no
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Wonder that The largest Internal organ in your Body is the only one Capable of Regenerating Completely This
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Jack-Of-All-Trades Filters Everything that We eat and Drink
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Including Alcohol and Drugs converts Glucose Into Glycogen for Storage
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Produces Bile Which Helps Digestion and
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Even Stores iron in The Form of Ferritin your Lungs and Kidneys Work Together to Maintain and Regulate an Optimal Blood Ph of
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7.4 if Ph is higher Than 7.8
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Or
Lower Than 6.8 The result is Usually Death When Ph Rises the Kidneys Excrete Excess
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Bicarbonate Ions and The Lungs Try to Conserve Carbon oxide When Ph Drops the Lungs Work To remove more Carbon Dioxide
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And the Kidneys Looks Read more Hydrogen ions even Though you have Two Kidneys each of Which is no larger than a computer Mouse
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you Can survive With only One Functioning at 75%
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Inside each Lies a Network of 1 To 2 Million Nephrons Which are Tiny Filters Capable of Filtering from 110 to
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140 Liters of Blood Per Hour Meaning all the Blood in your Body is Filtered Through the Kidneys
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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
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Weight of Course your blood is full of red Blood cells right Now There are 25?
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Trillion of them Coursing Through A mind-Boggling 100 Thousand Kilometer Network of Blood Vessels
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Every Second
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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
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Them your Hair Is the second Fastest Growing Part of your body Capable of Growing 6 inches per Year Though There is Variation across
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Populations With Male Hair Tending to grow Faster Than female hair as a Newborn your Lungs
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Were Filled with Fluid
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Approximately 10 Seconds After Birth You Sharply inhaled as A response to the new Environment and your Breathing Process that Sustains your life Began
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