Since the spooky Halloween season is upon us, we’re sharing a few “creepy” (but totally normal!) human body facts that prove we are the coolest, wildest machines on the planet:
Your Bones Are Turning to Dust
Your bones are constantly breaking down and rebuilding themselves. Approximately every 10 years, your body has replaced every single bone cell. You are quite literally walking around with a new skeleton.
You’re Shrinking
You are taller in the morning than at night. Gravity compresses the discs in your spine throughout the day, making you about 1cm shorter by bedtime. Don’t panic, you won’t vanish! You grow it back overnight.
You Require Protection From Yourself
Your muscles are technically strong enough to lift a car or snap your own bones. Your brain purposely limits your strength to protect you from destroying yourself.
Your Brain Paralyzes You Every Night
During REM sleep, your brain flips a switch to actively paralyze your muscles to keep you from acting out your dreams. If this system glitches and you wake up before the lock releases, you get sleep paralysis - when you’re unable to move while seeing vivid hallucinations.
Your Run on Electrical Storms
Your nervous system generates enough electricity to power a low-wattage lightbulb. Every thought you have, every muscle you flex, and every heartbeat is just a series of tiny, controlled lightning strikes firing through your flesh.
Your Stomach Acid is a Hazardous Fluid
Stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve a razor blade. The only reason it doesn’t digest you from the inside out is that your stomach lining completely renews itself every few days.
You Have Microscopic Roommates
Right now, thousands of tiny, eight-legged mites are living, eating, mating, and dying inside the pores of your face and eyelashes. While a little weird to think about, the roommates are harmless, invisible, and technically just a part of your ecosystem.
You Have a Bloody Highway Fueling You
If you stretched out all the blood vessels in an adult body and laid them end to end, they would wrap around the Earth FOUR TIMES. That is a massive highway system crammed inside you, keeping you fueled and ready to move!
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Our bodies do some weird, wonderful, and slightly creepy things to keep us moving every day. As physios, our job is to work with you to keep all those moving parts working together smoothly! Got a muscle or joint that’s acting a bit too chaotic lately? Book an appointment. We promise, no exorcisms required - just good science!
