facts first presents amazing facts about
the human body when you blush your
stomach blushes too when you get
embarrassed or if you start to feel
overwhelmed in a crowd it's not uncommon
for you to blush when you get
embarrassed your sympathetic nervous
system starts to increase the blood flow
in your body and it fills your face it
also releases adrenaline which prepares
your body for a stressful situation this
causes your blood vessels to dilate
which speeds up the blood flow this is
what causes your face to turn red but
you might not know though is that the
inside of your stomach also turns red
the blood flow is sent to this area
quickly when your face turns red so do
your insides humans are the best
long-distance runners on the planet
humans are the best long-distance
runners in the world we can run farther
than any four-legged animals on the
planet we're so good at running that
thousands of years ago when we spotted
our prey we would chase them we wouldn't
throw anything at them we would just
chase them until they dropped and died
of exhaustion
we were always strong enough to outrun
our prey and then eat the human body is
hot if you've ever worked hard outside
during the summer you understand what
it's like to sweat the amount of body
heat that is given off in 30 minutes on
a hot day is hot enough to boil water
this doesn't mean that you can come
inside after a long day's work and boil
water for your pasta right there on your
thighs your body has specific ways of
cooling itself down so you don't become
dangerously hot we have as much hair on
our bodies as a chimp if you've ever
seen a chimpanzee you would know that
they're adorable animals covered with
hair all over their entire body what
might sound strange that we have the
same amount of hair on our bodies as
chimpanzees do luckily for us the hairs
are so fine that they're practically
invisible this is a good thing because
nobody wants to be as hairy as a chimp
the focusing muscles in your eyes get a
workout
when you focus on objects throughout the
day your eye muscles have to move around
up to a hundred thousand times per day
that's a big number if you were to give
your leg muscles that same workout you
would need to walk for at least 50 miles
miles of blood vessels with weight gain
for every pound of fat or muscle that
you gain your body must also create new
blood vessels for the muscle and fat to
thrive the body doesn't just create a
few blood vessels however for each pound
of fat or muscle you gain the body has
to create seven miles of new blood
vessels your blood travels a great
distance in just one day the blood in
your body travels 12,000 miles around
your body this is equal to if you were
to travel across the United States from
coast to coast four times this just goes
to show how fast your blood flows
through your body
you couldn't even accomplish flying
coast to coast in an airplane four times
in one day if humans could travel the
way that blood does we could commute to
work halfway across the country with
zero effort we have more than five
senses
most people know that we have the five
senses touch sight sound smell and taste
what you might not know is you have 15
other senses they include pain balance
temperature internal senses for fullness
thirst and suffocation Direction time
and pressure among others the next time
someone tells you to use your senses
you could ask which one of the 15 you
should be using your body contains gold
you're just a tiny bit richer than you
think the human body contains about 0.2
milligrams of gold most of that is found
in your blood now don't get excited you
can't cash in on your riches here it
would take the blood from over 40,000
people to collect just enough gold to
make one gold coin that weighs 8 grams
since most people don't even know 40,000
people that would be a bit tough even if
a person did now 40,000 people
it's as are those people are not going
to be willing to give up all of their
blood so you can make a gold coin the
Halfmoon on your fingernail has a
purpose this is one of the most amazing
facts about the human body if you ever
looked at your fingernails and saw that
little white Halfmoon thing and the bed
of your nail you likely don't even know
what that is what's actually called a
lunula it's there to hide the blood
vessels underneath the fingernail it's
white because it's thicker than the rest
of your nail it needs to be thicker to
add protection if you can't see your
lunula or if it's really small it's a
sign that you could have slow digestion
it also means you could have a slow
metabolism or an overload of toxins in
your body if you're lunula is damaged it
can result in a serious deformity in the
nail if you only see the lunula on your
thumbnail it means that your energy and
immune system are probably weak it also
means that a disease for you
could be on the horizon subscribe for
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