Your Body is a Miracle in Motion
We are made up of over 100 trillion cells. We have over 650 muscles. Our body is covered with 4 million nerve endings with impulses traveling at 300 feet per second. Our body has over 60,000 miles of tubing just to carry the blood.
In one 24 hour period…
Your heart beats over 100,000 times
Your blood travels 186 million miles
You breath 23,000 times
Your kidney filters 42 gallons of liquid
You speak over 25,000 words
You exercise 7 million brain cells (Some more and some less ha-ha)
Speaking of the brain; the brain, about the size of a softball, perched like a flower on top of the spinal column, is connected by the finest fibers and filaments to every nook and cranny of our bodies.
Statistics say there are an estimated thirteen billion nerve cells inside the brain, and most of these cells have junction with five thousand other nearby nerve cells. Some fifty thousand of these synopses, or junctions, exist in our bodies.
The number of known cells in the brain far exceeds the number of stars we know about in all the galaxies. Take the skin, for instance: There are four million structures sensitive to pain. Five hundred thousand keep track of touch or pressure. Another two hundred thousand keep track of touch or pressure. Another two hundred thousand keep track of temperature.
“The Body…is a marvelous machine…a chemical laboratory, a powerhouse. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, is full of secrets and marvels.”
Theodore Herzl
Do you know that every minute millions of new cells are made in your body? Whether you are 6, 16 or 65, your body replaces 300 billion cells every day. That’s the good news, but there’s a catch. Beginning at about 30, the new cells are not as healthy as the cells they are replacing. Your body is made up of trillions of cells that live mostly for a few weeks or months die and are constantly replaced by new cells.
Although people may think of their body as a fairly permanent structure, most of it is in a state of constant flux as old cells are discarded and new ones generated in their place. Each kind of tissue has its own turnover time, depending in part on the workload endured by its cells. The cells lining the stomach last only five days. The red blood cells bruised and battered after traveling nearly 1,000 miles through the maze of the body’s circulatory system, last only 120 days or so on average before being dispatched to their graveyard in the spleen.
You replace about 1% of your cells every day. That means 1% of your body is brand-new today, and you will get another 1% tomorrow. Think of it as getting a whole new body every three months. Though not entirely accurate, it’s pretty close. With that in mind, you are walking around in a body that is brand-new since three months ago—new lungs, new muscles, new skin, etc. Take a look at your legs and realize that you will have new ones in another few months.
