Have you ever really, truly stopped to ponder how amazing our bodies really are? I know you’ve heard us say it quite a bit, but truthfully, each of us is a miracle when you think of it. Our bodies perform millions, no, trillions of functions every minute without us ever having to think about it. Honestly, if we had to think and concentrate on every single function going on in our body all the time, we wouldn’t make it very long in this world…chances are we’d die from exhaustion since so much is always going on within us.
Let me share with you some of the amazing things about our bodies..
- The human eye is so sensitive that if the Earth were flat, you could spot a candle flickering at night up to 30 miles away.
- When you blush, the lining of your stomach blushes too.
- In 30 minutes, the human body gives off enough heat to bring a gallon of water to boil.
- The focusing muscles in your eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you’d need to walk 50 miles.
- For every pound of fat or muscle gained, your body creates seven miles of new blood vessels.
- Your body produces 25 million new cells each second. Every 13 seconds, you produce more cells than there are people in the U.S.
- Humans shed 40 pounds of skin in their lifetime, completely replacing their outer skin every month.
- In one day, your blood travels 12,000 miles around your body. That’s four times the distance across the US from coast to coast.
- The human brain uses 20% of the entire body’s oxygen and calorie intake, despite only accounting for about 2% of an adult’s body mass.
- Along with the 5 traditional senses of sound, sight, touch, smell and taste, humans have 15 “other senses”. These include balance, temperature, pain and time, as well as internal senses for suffocation, thirst, and fullness.
Downright amazing when you think about it, right? Not to mention the fact that at any given second, our bodies are coordinating which hormones to be using, which neurotransmitters should be released, which synapses should be firing so digestion, breathing, heart beat, typing, talking, etc can be occurring….and on, and on and on! We have an inborn, innate intelligence that is constantly “on the job” within us, making sure all these functions are being performed as they should be. Seriously, the human body is so complex and magnificently mysterious that even the best scientists are STILL discovering new things about it.
One thing we do KNOW for sure about our magnificent bodies, is that our nerve system is the master control over it all. It’s our brain and central nerve system that oversees and coordinates the millions and trillions of functions within us every day. Wouldn’t it make sense then, that we take care of our nervous system, giving it the best opportunity to work at it’s fullest, without any interference to it? We were all created by two cells that joined together and then multiplied & divided billions and billions of times, ending in the creation of a human baby. Nobody had to tell these cells what to do, or give these cells anything…THEY JUST KNEW! That intelligence that created you, did not leave you the day you were born, it is still WITHIN YOU. You have the power to allow it to do it’s thing by making sure you are getting checked for subluxations and adjusted on a regular basis.
In Health,
Dr. Jen