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85 Of The Most Disturbing Things About Human Bodies That Might Freak You Out
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The human body is one of the most fascinating things on Planet Earth. Paradoxically, it’s at once extremely fragile and tougher than you think, adapting very quickly, and designed to bounce back even after serious injuries. Some people move beyond what most of us think our bodies are capable of doing, setting new athletic achievements—David Goggins alone has shown that people can endure far more than they give themselves credit for.
However, it isn’t all gold medals and victory parties. There are some truly disturbing and even creepy things about the human body that would sound like science fiction if we didn’t know better. Folks from the r/AskReddit online community shared the weirdest facts about human biology they know, and we’re sharing the most interesting ones with you.
Scroll down if you want to learn something new. Hopefully, you’ll still be able to sleep at night knowing some of these. Got any unusual facts about our bodies to share with all the other Pandas? We’ll be waiting to read all about it in the comment section.
Bored Panda reached out to health and fitness coach Anna Armagno Toussaint to have a chat about how much exercise and movement people should strive to get every day, as well as what people's biggest diet mistakes are. (Spoiler warning: many of us are eating an excessive amount of sugar.) We also got in touch with the author of the thread, redditor u/BathNo7713, to get their perspective as well. You'll find Anna and the redditor's answers to our questions below.
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#1
Mind Games Unveiled
The brain will protect itself even if it means misery to you or death.
Inhaling smoke in the middle of a burning house? Brain will make you stop breathing and pass out.
Stuck in the middle of a cold place? You will fall asleep to conserve energy and never wake up again.
Does your brain need more oxygen? You faint in the middle of a busy road.
Had your leg torn off by a bear? Here's adrenaline so you can save your brain even if there's a huge risk of infection or further injury.
Is your brain experiencing too much stress? It will make you drink alcohol or resort to drugs.
You and your brain work together most of the time, but when push comes to shove, you are sacrificed.
Monday 3 years ago
I mean...you ARE your brain. That's the part of you that makes you sentient. Take out your brain and your body is just a bony meatsack.
Horatio Jay 3 years ago
More accurately: you will try to preserve yourself at the expense of your other organs.
Malwin Wellham 3 years ago
Misleading but yes certain organs have higher priority for the survival of the organism. Without the brain you are brain dead which is as good as dead in other words.
Thomas Ewing 3 years ago
Our brain is the conduit of consciousness between physical and spiritual. We live forever, just not physically always. Being aware of this would put a lot of psychiatrists out of business.
Samira Peri 3 years ago
Hey, infection is a secondary worry. It's not like humans absolutely need all their limbs anyway.
Michał Głazik 3 years ago
nope; you will pass out in the middle of a burning house, because of CO and it's strong conection with hemoglobine alkohol and drugs are in fact just social exits from stress. for braint it's just sleep
Black Pearl 3 years ago
Wouldn't it technically be the body that's sacrificed though because aren't we the brain?
Robert T 3 years ago
Sometimes your brain will make you vomit to try to get rid of something nasty that you might have ingested. Mine did this to my when I had a haemorrage as a result of a small tumour on my brain. Literally could not stop trying to vomit. Another related fun fact is that in order to perform an angiogram (a live x-ray) of my brain, they inserted the tube into my leg, because the artery goes straight up to the brain and it is kinder than drilling holes in your skull!
Health and fitness coach Anna told Bored Panda that she leans more towards believing that the human body is resilient. She opened up to us that she has an autoimmune disease and does her best to see things in a positive light. She knows that things could be much worse off.
When it comes to eating properly, balance is key. "I think people don't eat enough balanced meals. I have been following a great eating guide that encourages balanced meals but is also really flexible so you are never cutting anything out completely. We need more balance," the coach stressed that it's vital for health.
"I do think, at least in America, that we definitely need to cut back on sugar though. It definitely affects my autoimmune issues and exacerbates conditions of friends as well. It feeds cancer. All things are ok in moderation but we don't need to be adding as much sugar to yogurt as a serving of ice cream, you know?" she pointed out that limiting the intake of sugar may be a very positive step for many people.
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#2
Under the Lights
I noticed this after my abdominal surgery. When I turned over in bed my guts seemed to fall from one side to the other. Mentioned to my doc and she confirmed it was my bowels rearranging themselves.
Sabs 3 years ago (edited)
Yes and no. You have something called the Peritoneum, which is a sack to hold your intestines and abdominal organs in place. While yes your organs are still loose inside that sack, your not going to have your intestines crawl into your chest cavity for instance. Most of your major organs have a similar lining. Heart pericardium, lungs pleura, brain meninges.
Patti Vance 3 years ago
yes, absolutely true! also had surgery where i was told that they basically gutted me like a fish to work on my innards. later, there was discomfort and was told the same. however, ever since that surgery it seems that it changed some of my pre op functions changed, like how my body eliminates waste. the human body is amazing and kind of scary in how it will opt for survival over anything else regardless of how it makes you feel.
Tatiana Kouzmanoff 3 years ago
After internal surgery for something like intestines they don't reroute them. They just shove them back in and they reroute themselves.
Phil Vaive 3 years ago
I've read this a few times, when doctors perform operations like c-sections, they just kind of remove all your intestines and dump them in a bowl, then just dump em back in and sew you up.
Michelle A 3 years ago
I had the priviledge of sitting in on one when I worked for a small physician owned hospital about 20 yrs ago. I could see everything from behind the observation wall. They named the orga s as they moved them around, to pick up the Uterus. Just pulled the uterus with baby o Up, sat it on her belly and made the incision. Pulled out baby, handed it to nurses stiched uterus and kinda crammed everything back in its place. Fascinating!
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Danish Susanne 2 years ago
It is really unpleasant, and the reason why I most often turn down offers of a lift with a cardriver. I much prefer the smoother movement of the train, if it is too far to walk.
#3
Hide and Seek Masterclass
Period cramps are essentially your womb suffocating itself.
To get the uterine lining out of your womb during your period, your uterus has to contract. Sometimes, when the contractions are stronger, your womb squeezes its blood vessels so tight that oxygen can't reach them, which sends pain signals to your brain (ouch). But wait, there's more – this process increases your production of chemicals called prostaglandins, which encourage more contractions of the uterus. There really is no mercy.
Monday 3 years ago
Womb: I got everything nice and ready for the baby and you had the audacity to NOT get pregnant? I'll show you!
Not always popular 3 years ago
This give me, a man, more perspective about what kind and how severe cramps are. It should be required in health class so boys will actually sympathize and not be dismissive of girls.
Margie Ang 3 years ago
Some more info, then: it has been proven that period cramps are the same as the contractions of the 2nd labor stage, where women push the baby out... imagine going through birthing pains once every month...!!!
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Scotira 3 years ago
Ahhh yes, and bc this is not enough, uterine cells outside the uterus behave the exact same! Intraperitoneal bleeding, cramps, formation of scar tissue. This is called endometriosis and, if I remember correctly, 60%-80% of all women have it, but with only 20% it causes remarkable problems. But those are really excruciating! 🙈🤦♀️
AK to LV 3 years ago
This should be higher!! I was wondering why no one had mentioned endometriosis!
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Soggy Crumpet 3 years ago
This one is misleading. The reason why a woman gets cravings during this, usually Magnesium rich foods (I.e. chocolate), is to because the body is trying to soothe the cramping.
third molar 3 years ago
How dare womb can act like this. Lets put more laws to stop womb acting on its own without permission from religious ppl!! (Frustration +sarc)
LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago
And why can't I have my damn uterus yanked out?! It's basically just going to be empty for life, so why do I need to keep it?
AK to LV 3 years ago
Sarcasm: Because you 'might' want children someday and it wouldn't be fair to your future husband. Quotes from doctors.
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"Technically, we should aim for 30 minutes a day of movement, but if all you can do is walk around the block, start there," she said that we shouldn't feel bad about starting small and going from there. Any exercise that you can realistically get done is far better than sitting on the couch, grumpy that you don't have the time for the workout you'd ideally like to do.
"You don't have to run a marathon or bench press your wife, but you can certainly get some movement in. Start where you can and don't give up," the coach shared some encouraging words with Bored Panda.
#4
Cell Party Under the Microscope
You develop cancerous cells every day. But your immune system deals with it.
EDIT: Usually.
(T)reacherou(S) 3 years ago
Didn't want to know that. (Honestly think i'm gonna regret clicking on this trend at all)
Danish Susanne 2 years ago
Which is part of the reason why smokers are more prone to get cancer. Their immune system is already burdened with getting rid of the nicotine and all the other chemicals put into cigarettes to make you smoke more.
#5
Microscopic Matchmaker Moments
A third to a half of all fertilized ovum do not result in a viable pregnancy. They are expelled as a “heavy period” instead. Most women don’t even realize that they miscarried.
NsG 3 years ago
Do NOT let the wankjobs in the Republican party know this! They'll try and legislate against having periods entirely
Hedgeh og 3 years ago
Oh, how I wish this was exaggeration. But they'll legislate that ectopic pregnancies be "reimplanted" - a medical procedure that does not exist - so yeah, they'll do anything to flex their ignorance and their power. US folks - check your voter registration, and be ready to vote ALL BLUE in November. The GOP doesn't deserve any power at all until they sort out their sh*theads (which is FAR too many of them right now).
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Scotira 3 years ago
I'm not sure, that's true. The way (sex) education in certain countries is handled...
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Just a ray of f'ing sunshine 3 years ago
I know I'm probably going to get a lot of down votes for this, but, I get in this site to be entertained and to learn new things. Why do we have to have debates and arguments about everything? Can't we just read these, enjoy them, and not bring politics and religion into everything?
ChickyChicky 3 years ago
Good question, ask the people who bring their religion into everything and make it political.
Load More Replies... Samira Peri 3 years ago
How is this disturbing? It's a control mechanism. Wasting energy on growing something unviable would make no sense.
Molly Block 3 years ago
This might be a good thing, as a lot of people are nowhere near ready, mature, or financially, emotionally, or physically stable enough to spawn children.
Don't Look 3 years ago
When I talked to a fertility doctor about this, it was honestly one of the most depressing things she could have told me.
Kona Pake 3 years ago
I wonder if scientists ever studied the effect of exposing a human egg and sperm to high energy from a scanning electron microscope or x-ray?
Scotira 3 years ago (edited)
Jep, they have. That's the reason only in dire emergencies for the mother x-rays are taken. MRI only after the 3rd month, due to spontaneous abortions. No radiation treatment exept under certain circumstances and mostly with protons or other inonized particles. Most of these things with dangers to the unborn child... 🤷♀️ Edit: usually the rule is "mother before child" Though the mother (or her family in case she is unconcious) can decide otherwise (AND I'm talking about law in Europe of course)
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#6
Fragile Beginnings
Humans are deuterostomes. Meaning as embryos the first thing to develop is an opening that will eventually become the a**s. So at one point you were nothing but an a*****e
Wyndmere 3 years ago (edited)
There is no blood in the ovum, the spermatazoa, or the very early stages of a developing embrio. It just appears once there are channels for it to fill: veins, arteries, and heart. Your blood is a miracle!
Raena Celis 3 years ago
Aw, but why is that tiny baby in a sac sitting on top of a gloved hand and not in the mother's womb????
Redditor u/BathNo7713 told Bored Panda that they posed the question to the r/AskReddit community out of general curiosity. "I wanted to know more and wanted other people who read the post to know more too," they told us that their main goals were curiosity and education.
The author of the thread personally believes that the human body is very fragile. In their opinion, the biggest weakness that people have is "the fact that our own immune system can make us blind." Meanwhile, the biggest strength is that "we mostly rely on instinct a way of knowing something without learning it."
The redditor believes that there might not be enough attention given to science and psychology at schools, as many of the facts shared in the thread weren't taught to students.
According to Ruslan Medzhitov, the David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Yale, different tissues and organs have different degrees of resilience.
“What makes us really sick, and what can kill an organism, animal, or human, is when the most vulnerable aspect of our physiology—the organs or tissues or processes that have least resilience—are affected enough to push them over the edge,” he explains.
One area of our bodies that is extremely sensitive is the brain. Our skulls protect it from hard blows; meanwhile, our internal biology is structured in such a way that it gets supplied with glucose and oxygen at the expense of other tissues. In short, the brain’s a priority for our bodies.
“These mechanisms ultimately increase the resilience of the entire organism because they protect the weakest links in the system,” Medzhitov noted.
#7
if you lose the pinky of your hand, you'll lose the 50% strength of your hand.
KJ 3 years ago
So if I start collecting pinkies I get 50% stronger per pinky, useful knowledge.
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
I can't be the only one that tried to grab something with and without my pinky to try it out right?
Fried Mermaid 3 years ago
Didn't try to grab anything, BUT noticed I was holding my phone with one hand and most of the strength came from my pinky
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Mariya Chuchman 3 years ago
My both pinkies are sitting very low on a hand palm compared to other fingers due to some genetic bone thing. so i can't use them when grabbing or holding something My hands are noticeably weak
the shrimp whisperer 3 years ago
me, a guitarist: *turns and stares at pinky* YOU bASTARD WITHOUT YOU I WOULDNT BE ABLE TO PLAY BUT YOU CANT HOLD DOWN A STRING FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME
raincloud the whalien 3 years ago
"Even this pinky can be Kung Fu." -Everything, Everywhere, All At Once (wonderful movie weird though)
Al Padilla 3 years ago
If you want to find out for sure, here's a trick I learned in medical school, in the days of mercury or aneroid blood pressure cuffs: Part of the neurologic exam is to measure grip strengh. You could, maybe count broken fingers after shaking hands, but better to fold the BP cuff in thirds (approx size of a Coors light), pump up to 40 mm Hg or equivalent, grab and grip to the max. Very reproducible and reliable, Like crushing a beer can.
#8
Behind the Ache
You have a spine and support system meant for traveling on four legs.
Basically, we've all got bad backs.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago (edited)
40-year-old me still loves this XD as a kid, when classmates would want to play House, I’d quickly say “I want to be the dog!!” (Quickly said because for some reason I figured EVERYONE would want to be the bestest family member… right? It’s not just me?… it’s just me XD ) Besides that… well… we still have a tailbone XD
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Benita Valdez 3 years ago
So really what your saying is my bad back is due to being human . . . well I guess I wasn't far off when I said I just need to be alive to be in pain. Stupid body
AW 3 years ago
The human skeleton evolved to become bipedal. We are definitely not meant to "walk" on our legs and arms.
Mary Rogers 3 years ago
But the transition resulted in us having weak backs because our spines did not completely adapt. That is the point of this post. Evolution isn't about perfection, it's about "good enough".
Load More Replies... Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
This is not true. Our first “confirmed” bipedal ancestor evolved 6 to 7 MILLION years ago. Our spines and “support system” (whatever THAT is) have had plenty of time since then to evolve into something “meant” for bipedal animals… which we have been for 6+ million years. If we can turn carnivorous wolves into omnivorous dogs in 30,000 years, evolution can definitely mold our spine into something meant for bipeds in 6 million years. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a former furry and I always wanted to be the dog when I played House as a kid, but that’s just because I think dogs are a superior form of life as compared to humans :p
Mary Rogers 3 years ago (edited)
But gravity still does a number on our backs, doesn't it? Evolution isn't perfect.
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Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
Yeeeah…. I had 7 wisdom teeth - if I hadn’t been born in a time of modern dentistry, I’d probably have been dead from impaction/infection by age 25 XD
Load More Replies... Molly Block 3 years ago
No, no no.... we have evolved past this statement, over hundreds and hundreds of years. We are bipedal now. We are not meant to walk on all fours, and our backs have evolved enough so that we can walk on two legs!
Mary Rogers 3 years ago
But we still have weak backs because our spines didn't totally adapt to an upright position. Evolution isn't about perfection, it's about "good enough."
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Tiny Warriors Unite
An estimated 60% of cancers arise from non-modifiable risk factors. In other words, they are not due to any lifestyle choices and they are not preventable.
Monday 3 years ago
I dunno man, dying seems like a pretty sure-fire way to avoid getting cancer.
Scotira 3 years ago (edited)
I don't like those "absolute statistics" bc 60%+40%≠100% when talking about cancer! While it is correct fe that in 90% of all lung cancer patients the reason is nikotin, not 90% of all smokers develop lung cancer. Same goes for others. Esophagus carcinoma fe (don't hold me to the numbers, I'd need to look the correct ones up in my books) nikotine 10%, alkohol 10%, HPV (via semen) 5%, smog 2%. Which would give a total of 27% risk for a smoking, alkohol drinking, sexual active person living in a polluted city. Yeah it doesn't quite work that way! (Edit: spelling, it's late for me 🙈)
Carrrie T 2 years ago
Depends on what risk factors they are counting as “modifiable.” Some that they consider modifiable, science is proving otherwise. What used to be believed about weight, for example, is being shown in science as non-modifiable for some people. Yet, weight is still counted as a modifiable risk factor.
Gladys Hayes Southerland 3 years ago
It's kind of the only way. The other ways only delay the inevitable-you are going to die- but l would like to choose how. Wouldn't we all?
It’s important to be curious in life, but it’s also vital that you remain at least slightly skeptical of what you read online. The best approach is to do at least a bit of your own research and cross-check information from multiple reliable sources. Especially if you stumble upon an outlandish fact, whether about the human body or anything else.
During an earlier interview with Bored Panda, media expert Mike Sington shared some red flags to look out for that indicate a claim or fact might be fake.
"Red flags to watch out for that a claim may be fake: it's outlandish, it's too good to be true, you haven't seen the claim anywhere else, you've never heard the source, the source isn't reputable, you can't find two other sources making the same claim, your gut tells you, 'this can't be true,'" the expert stressed that we shouldn’t accept things blindly.
#10
Wounds and bone breaks are actively held together by your body: more specifically, the collagen it produces that acts like glue. If you don't eat enough vitamin C and get scurvy, you won't produce enough collagen—old wounds will reopen and long-healed bones could break apart again. Collagen also holds your teeth in, so they loosen and can fall out. Eat some fruit, folks. Don't push that parsley to the side of your plate.
RafCo 3 years ago
I learned once the reason that British folk are called "Limeys" by Americans is that in Victorian days, the English Navy had an enforced consumption of lime juice for their sailors, as a way of preventing scurvy.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago (edited)
Collagen is a form of protein… it’s also good for us to ingest some in our diet, as our body’s production of it slows down as we age (which is partially why older people start to get wrinkles.) Fair warning, though: there is literally no such thing as “vegan” collagen.
Wayne Gossman 3 years ago
In a healthy person all proteins get broken down into amino acids in the gut before they get absorbed. It does not matter what kind of protein a person eats as long as they have a proper balance of amino acids (eat grains with beans is one way.). The only problem with a vegan diet is B12 but that can be made by bacteria and taken as a supplement now.
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PalmKitty 3 years ago
Just letting it sink in how I can’t have fruits because of a condition. Next thing to do: buy vitamin C gummies
Al Padilla 3 years ago
Vitamin C allows the long, rod-like collagen molecules to cross-link. Think tubular Velcro. Scurvy is when the collagen can't crosslink. Antidote is citrus fruit (high in vit. C). This was discovered by the Brits, whose sailors were called "limeys."
Melanie Filmer 3 years ago
Yep, and having EDS sucks! Means my collagen (glue) is shitty school glue while everyone else has super gorilla glue
Elin Stenquist 3 years ago
Shitty, dried up, expired, cheap-a$$ glue (I have EDS too)
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Sasage 3 years ago
Is anyone else here salicylate intolerant? What do you do for vitamin C intake? I just realized reading this that I actually might be suffering from a deficiency in vitamin c
humdrum 3 years ago
Lime is actually high in vitamin C and low in salicylates. So are Brussels sprouts and papaya. But maybe just take a supplement and don't forget about the fiber!
Load More Replies... PalmKitty 3 years ago (edited)
Hollywood: Right that down, RIGHT THAT DOWN
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Ghaniyah Verma 3 years ago
I recommend persimmons and oranges. They're yummy. Oh, and apples, and mangoes, and (even though it's not a vegetable) avocados, and guavas.
Nick Hinkell 3 years ago
Vitamin C is the most important nutrient in our diets and our bodies cannot make it, which is very rare in the animal kingdom and only occurs in other herbivores. It has to come from out diets, meaning we are required to eat large amounts of fruit and other plant foods to survive and stay healthy. It is the most common antioxidant, as it gives up a free electron to render free radicals ineffective, which happens between 100,000 and 1 million times per second. Vitamin C is concentrated by the body 10 times around cerebrospinal fluid and 100 times around the spinal column and brain.
#11
Ready for the Plot Twist
Pregnant women if injured, the stem cells from the womb will go to damaged organs and rebuild them to protect the baby.
Isabella 3 years ago
I am not hunting grammar errors, but the way this sentence is formulated, it kills my ears, even though I am not a native English speaker.😟
Shelli Aderman 3 years ago
Yes. Here ya go: “If a pregnant women is injured, the stem cells from the umbilicus will go to damaged organs and rebuild them to protect the baby.” 😉
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Paul Davis 3 years ago
There are all kinds of incredible changes to women's bodies allowing them to survive pregnancy. The fact they have extra liters of blood, that their skin becomes super stretchable, how the blood vessels feeding the placenta are designed to retract and close off after losing the placenta, and more.
Al Padilla 3 years ago
But sometimes bad grammar hurts less than incorrect information. PandaRave is right. It's your own stem cells that do the repairing. Pregnancy, however, does increase a host of growth-promoting factors (most are hormones) which accelerate healing/regeneration.
Valley Girl 3 years ago
So...if a woman gets paralyzed right before labor she won't need pain meds for the birthing process and then she'll heal?
#12
Expecting The Unexpected
A female is born with every egg they'll ever release from the ovaries. Therefore, a pregnant woman who is carrying a female child is also carrying the eggs of her grandchildren.
Hedgeh og 3 years ago
Not if her daughter chooses to remain child-free, which is also a perfectly valid choice ✨
KombatBunni 3 years ago
Like mine has chosen to be and I’m perfectly fine with it :) Her and her bf’s cat is my furry grandchild!
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Rannveig Ess 3 years ago
Yes and no. Female fetuses grow all the eggs she will carry in her ovaries, her entire adult life, at about 4 months old. So - this means that the genetic code for eggs were once inside your mother when you were a fetus in her womb - your mother carried the cells which became your eggs. Just like she carried the cells that became your brain or your spleen or your eyes. Mom carried the genetic DNA from her mom and grew eggs while in Gram's womb. Etc. etc. So they aren't "Mom's eggs" or "Grandmom's , exactly, but cells that formed eggs. At birth, there are approximately 1 million eggs in a pair of ovaries. By the time of puberty only about 300,000 remain. Of these, only 300 to 400 will "ripen" and develop, then ovulated during a woman's reproductive lifetime. If a woman becomes pregnant with a female, the genetic cells are passed to her fetus. You only share a quarter of your grandmother’s "egg" DNA. Supposedly this DNA transfer lasts 3 generations.
Sky Render 3 years ago
It's a bit more complicated than that(oocytes are not complete ova), but the gist of it is basically true, yes.
Tiger Pearl 3 years ago (edited)
Grandeggs… many will not make it to be grandchildren. Maybe none at all.
Robin Rush 3 years ago
The woman is also the one that grows balls for every male born. So if you tell a woman to grow some balls, if she has a son, she already has. Men don’t grow their own balls. Women do it for them
"The rise of social media has decreased the reliability of information because misinformation can spread so quickly before it can be corrected," Mike warned. He advises starting off with a simple Google search to double-check a fact’s reliability.
"Do this and think before reposting or you may be contributing to the problem. Amplification doesn’t make a claim true or accurate," he noted.
#13
Beating Behind the Scenes
You can die of a broken heart. you can have your heart broken and become ill to where your body goes into survival mode and can shut down major functions.
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
Today I learned that the husband of Irma Garcia, one of the teachers killed in Uvalde, TX, died at home after planning his wife's funeral. Devastating in every way.
Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago
But the authorities still won't give a damn... sad....
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Cathy Hurd 3 years ago
I know when my son died my heart physically hurt. I was literally 'broken-hearted'
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
Its a good thing no one likes me that much....hahaha...sigh. Lol
Scotira 3 years ago (edited)
Takotsubo Syndrom, better known as Broken Heart-Syndrom, most patients suffering from it survive without significant damages to the heart (shortterm). Longterm a fifth of all patients develope severe cardiac complications like ruptures, heart attacs, arrhythmia... About 80% of all patients are women. 😢😢😭😭😭 (edit: 🙄 spelling)
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#14
When we defibrillate someone who’s in an unsuitable rhythm, we’re basically just shutting off their heart and hoping it will turn back on by itself in a normal pattern. That’s why you don’t shock asystole, there’s nothing to turn off. Defibrillation is like hitting the reboot switch in the computer, hopefully the problem will solve itself when you turn it off and it’ll return to normal function
Tiger Pearl 3 years ago
Haha nooo, you beat me to it! This is a regular joke in my office. Any problem and we jokingly say this.
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Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
I did read 'Asystole' wrongly and think to myself ' ouch, shocking my asystole sounds a bit radical but, hey, if it saves my life ....' Then I read it again - doh !!
Molly Block 3 years ago
Asytole is flatline for those who didn't know. I had to look it up myself. I hope I never get to that point.... Wait, what am I saying? We ALL flatline eventually!! But for now, let us live long, and be happy!
sofacushionfort 3 years ago
It was only less than 30 years ago a mass of neural cells at the top of the heart were determined to be, in effect, the satellite brain dedicated to regulating heart rhythm.
Al Padilla 3 years ago
sofacushion fort- You should check your sources. The main cardiac pacemaker, the SinoAtrial node was discovered in 1907, and relatively shortly thereafter, its function was defined. It receives, indirectly from the brain, sympathetic nerve fibers (think "adrenaline") to increase the rate, and parasympathetic nerve fibers from the vagus nerve (think "acetylcholine) to slow the rate. Remember that 30 years ago was 1992, unless your source was published pre-1940.
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#15
Silent Struggles
There are a vast number of ways that your body can malfunction and kill you with little or no warning. An aneurysm can go undetected until it bursts and kills you. Getting hit in the chest just the right way can stop your heart. You can encounter an allergen that never previously provoked an immune response that freaks out your body so badly that you die.
You literally just never know if your body will just....die.
Monday 3 years ago
and on the other side of the spectrum you have that lady that fell from a plane still in her seat, landed in the jungle and walked out.
Hedgeh og 3 years ago
It was maybe a LITTLE more complex than that ;) But yeah, pretty amazing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke
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Crow (he/they) 3 years ago
Keep in mind that this is less likely than you never getting hurt ever again- it is literally more likely for you to never stub your toe or get a papercut ever again in your life than for this to happen
Load More Replies... NeonDisco 3 years ago
From the second we are born we are all dying, it's just a matter of when, where and how, and those are questions nobody can answer until seconds before their time.
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 3 years ago
Same. I'm not freaked out even a little. Sounds like an alright way to go
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Legen ( wait for it ) dary 3 years ago
I saw kill bill hitting on rhe chest thing. If a apêndice burst can kill you.
"Our attention spans have been reduced to mere seconds at a time because that’s the way information and entertainment is fed to us now. People get tiny bite-sized bits of news by scrolling a Twitter feed, they entertain themselves by scrolling quickly through Instagram and TikTok. It’s creating a habit that doesn’t have to be," Mike said that even though our attention spans are shorter than ever, we can fight back against this.
"The good news is there’s plenty of long-form entertainment and news available, you just have to seek it out. I believe the benefit is worth it. I’ve discovered it improves your ability to focus, it’s more calming, you retain more information, and it gives you a more balanced and nuanced view of the world."
#16
Inside Your Thinking Cap
If your brainstem (the part of the brain that mediates most motor control for all of the body) is damaged, you can get "locked-in" syndrome. That means you're fully conscious and aware of your surroundings but unable to move or speak. The only muscles that remain unaffected in most people are the muscles that move they eyes and the eyelids. You're essentially trapped within your own body with your only way of communication being blinking or moving your eyes
It can be caused by toxins, blockage of the basilar artery which is the main artery of the brainstem, or other brainstem damage
Patti Vance 3 years ago
don't want to read 'the diving bell and the butterfly"? then check out the 1971 movie 'johnny got his gun' in which the main character not only has a form of this but is left blind & without legs/arms due to battle. the movie follows his experience in this state, all while being conscious of his surrounding but drs/military believe he is just in a vegetative state because, as one dr put it, to not be able to communicate would drive a person mad'. won't tell the end of the film but it leaves you breathless
María Hermida 3 years ago (edited)
"The diving bell and the butterfly" was written by a man who suffered a stroke. You can also read "Ghost boy", by Martin Pistorius, who spent many years locked in. It's terrible, but it shows how your life can change in a second.
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Ellen Ranks 3 years ago
Similar but thankfully temporary experiences may be caused by general anesthetic gone wrong and sleep paralysis.
Claudia Coulson 3 years ago
THere is a 'House' episode about this! (season 5, episode 19) 100% recommend
María Hermida 3 years ago
It might. There's a film, based on a real doctor's experiences, about the victims of encephalitis lethargica. The film is Awakenings, with Robbin Williams. Warning: it's very sad.
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Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
My mom: “Get Botox for your migraines!!” No thank you, mom, even the TINIEST chance of this kind of shenanigans from botulism toxins injected into my head/face is a NOPE.
Brian Stanton 3 years ago
My stepdad had this after his lung popped :( family pulled the plug, sad af
#17
Your body replaces cells as they mutate or die. However, much like a photocopy of a photocopy, the replacements are a little less perfect each time. Around the age of 28, you are no longer replacing cells effectively. What that means is after the age of 28, approximately, you are actively in the process of dying because your cells are being destroyed faster than they can be replaced and the replacements are more and more imperfect each time.
sofacushionfort 3 years ago
Yep, we’re only meant to stay healthy long enough to pass along our genetic code. So don’t be too judgmental of those “peaked in high school” failures.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
So I’ve been actively dying for the last 12 years. Feels about right. XD
Paul Davis 3 years ago
And this is designed into our genes purposely to keep older males from competing sexually with younger males, to allow a better, healthier variety of offspring.
#18
Too Real for Words
Well, just this week there was a woman(local) in her late twenties who died of a toothache.
She had posted on FB about needing a dentist over the weekend and decided to wait till Monday, Sunday morning she was gone. The infection went to her brain.
Libby Tailor 3 years ago (edited)
My dentist once told me that infection from tooth could go two way: up to the brain or down to the lungs.
RoseTheMad 3 years ago
I had an infection (probable meningitis) a few weeks ago. Spent 2 days in hospital and it had mostly cleared up, a week after that on antibiotics and it was gone completely. but it's scary how serious things can be if you just leave it alone. For the record, it started with serious headaches, progressing into nausea and fever. If something feels off, you should ALWAYS try and get checked if you can. (which is why it sucks that the US healthcare is the s**t way it is. I'm so sorry for you all, our NHS isn't perfect but knowing what it could be like, I'd never take it for granted)
Paul Davis 3 years ago (edited)
Tooth infections are very scary because they can directly infect not only your central nervous system, your heart, or lungs, or even cause generalized and very hard to survive septicemia.
Michelle A 3 years ago (edited)
I was just prescribed antibiotics for an infected tooth yesterday! Glad i didnt see this before!
WoodenLion 3 years ago
i've heard stuff like this about teeth before. it is the only "dead" part of our body they do not remove. [root canal ]
#19
When Food Fights Back
Stomach acid is very powerful, it would burn right though us if we didn’t secrete mucus every few hours.
Riley Warrick 3 years ago
And we invaded the planet and killed off the real humans.
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Paul Davis 3 years ago
People don't realize one reason we need salt to survive is so that we can produce hydrochloric acid, which is not only used to digest our food but also to break down bone - as we have cells both breaking bone down and rebuilding it back constantly.
Robert T 3 years ago
Is this why drunk people leave little trails of bodily fluid behind them? Are they reverting their prehistoric inner snail?
Seán Baron 3 years ago
We would die. Apparently, we've not been able to build anything that could safely contain stomach acid.
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Casmera Norwich 3 years ago
and yet nuts & seeds can pass right through the stomach and bowels without being destroyed .....?
Nick Hinkell 3 years ago
Our stomachs are less acidic than those of carnivorous and omnivorous animals, but actually become more acidic when exposed to animal products like meat and dairy. While this helps us consume the potential flesh-eating bacteria, it wreaks havoc on our systems. Among other things, it destroys amylase, the starch digesting enzyme, which is why people have a hard time consuming carbs and will often get heartburn from eating a combination of animal ingredients and starchy foods. This is some of the justification behind eating alkaline foods, but really just another reason to eat plant based as often as possible.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
Pro tip: if you have bad acid/reflux and cannot (or would prefer not to) take OTC acid reducing meds, try slippery elm bark! It’s a natural plant substance that encourages mucus production in our bodies. It can help acid reflux/indigestion/acidic stomach :) It can also help constipation and sore throats for the same mucilaginous reason!
#20
Caught in the Moment
The head can be twisted around about three and a half times before coming off.
Monday 3 years ago
I want to know how this was discovered. Did they do the math or were heads twisted?
Jo Johannsen 3 years ago
I'm sincerely hoping this was tested on corpses.
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Anjelika 3 years ago
Reminds me of an anime called elfin lied, if you don't like gore or violent scenes DO NOT watch it
That nerd Zoe ️🇺🇦️ 3 years ago
More or less gory than Parasyte the Maxim?
Load More Replies... Scotira 3 years ago (edited)
Not one. The brainstem and vessels rupture before that. Edit: I didn't test it out though, this is an estimate on placement and elasticity of tissue and organs 😇😅
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Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 3 years ago
That doesn't mean that you will continue breathing or that the bones won't break/dislocate. It just means that it takes that much force to cause the skin & muscle structure to break.
#21
People that have sever epilepsy can get a procedure done to cut the corpus callosum which connects the two sides of the brain, and allows them to talk to each other. Once this happens your image identification side can’t talk to your words side, and causes issues if you aren’t able to look at an item with both eyes. Otherwise patients act mostly the same. So if you were asked to cover you eye that sends info to your language center, and then shown a ball to look at for your object identifying center you wouldn’t be able to tell what it is out loud. Your brain would still be recognizing it, but wouldn’t be able to provide the word for it. Fortunately it is very rare to get this done these days as medication has become more effective, so this procedure is a last resort sort of thing.
RafCo 3 years ago
The seizures can be caused by a feedback loop between the two hemispheres of the brain. By removing the communication channel, it interrupts that feedback loop, eliminating the seizures (mostly). For a time, it was the most effective treatment, and if the option was either have life threatening seizures, or just make sure you don't try to do things with one eye shut, most people felt that was a small sacrifice to live an otherwise normal life.
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Giles McArdell 3 years ago
I once saw a documentary on a woman who had this, I remember a scene where she it trying to pick out clothes and was getting annoyed because her left hand kept going off and picking out different clothes to the right.
Just a ray of f'ing sunshine 3 years ago
A true case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing (and visa versa). :)
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Randy Klefbeck 3 years ago
The exception to this procedure is if someone is under the age of 10. The corpus callosum has not finished the exchange of chemicals which divide the the brain into dedicated right/left hemispheric jobs before that age. It is also the reason why children can acquire any language they are exposed to in immersion and become fluent in that language before the age of 10, (fluent means speaking without an accent from a first language....unless the accent is inherently regional to the language the child is exposed to). It would essentially become two completely developed brains without demands on which hemisphere would control which side of the body.
Al Padilla 3 years ago
Almost, but not quite correct. Turns out the left-sided visual cortex "sees" the right field of view, and the right-sided visual cortex sees the left. But the left visual cortex receives data from the left sides of both left & right eye retinas, and the right cortex from the right side of both left & right retinas. So what your "verbal side" describes is the right visual field, and the opposite for your right side. Look up "split brain humans for some amazing real stories. Our consciousness is "modular" - think of math & video coprocessors, maybe.
Nika Strokappe 3 years ago
There are cases where people had a small stroke and would be fully functional apart from not being able to recognize fruits... (I am very curious whether these people would recognize tomatoes, which technically is a fruit)
Paul Davis 3 years ago
Seems to be that cutting the corpus callosum would theoretically cause you to become sociopathic or psychopathic as well, given that, so far as I know, many sociopaths and psychopaths have severely reduced communication through the corpus callosum that is visible in brain scans.
Mary Rogers 3 years ago
It's probably more complicated than that. I remember reading about these experiments on people who had that surgery and I don't recall any changes in personality mentioned. It just basically affected how they processed sensory input.
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No one knows why we have to sleep. We have theories. But no universally agreed upon or accepted one. The reason we spend a third of our lives incapacitated and unaware is still a mystery.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
I think the issue is that people expect it to be one thing, and one thing only. But in reality the body uses that sleep period to conduct a large number of maintenance operations to keep the brain functional during the sleep period. Repair happens far faster during sleep, not only for the brain but for the whole body. Cells go around cleaning up stray material during sleep. Immune cells attack invading cells more effectively during sleep. And most importantly the neurons are able to reset during sleep to allow them to function, and memory is written from neural nets to proteins for long-term storage.
Kristal 3 years ago
I completely agree. When I am developing a coldsore, I make sure to get a lot of sleep and usually it's gone the next day. Same with just being sick in general; the more I sleep, the faster I get better.
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Jo Johannsen 3 years ago
If we slept as much as dogs and cats need to, we'd probably never have developed civilization.
Giles McArdell 3 years ago
Recent discovery - during part of your sleep the brain flushes out toxins and dead matter, it literally does a wash cycle.
Legen ( wait for it ) dary 3 years ago
We need to sleep because some if us need a hobby. And sleep is a perfect good ones. Naps being the best sleep.
Mirabelle Skyrim 3 years ago
I thought one of the reasons was to move stuff from your short time memory to your long time memory and the stuff that get's discarded ends up in your dreams, which is why they often are so illogical.
Thomas Ewing 3 years ago
We are spiritual creatures experiencing a temporary physical existence. Sleep is so we can commune with our souls. True.
Randy Klefbeck 3 years ago
Computer update and reboot. The brain also eliminates toxins that are stored in it while we sleep. Without sleep this is one of the reasons why we feel drugged or sick.
#23
Rough Around the Edges
There’s enough copper in your body to make a pair of headphones.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
Something many people are unaware of is that some minerals like copper and iron are good to supplement for younger people but the same supplementation can be toxic for older people.
Lisa Edwardsen 3 years ago
Recently discovered the average person consumes enough plastic to make several credit cards -- every year!
#24
Allergies and intolerances can just come and go as they please with no explanation Was lactose intolerant from age 13 to 22.
Monika Lachova 3 years ago
intolerances are linked to the status of gut mucus cells. If they're somehow damaged it can result in this (very simlified explanation tho). Also had period of lactose intolerance once.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
Not just that - if you have liver or gallbladder problems you can't produce or store enough enzymes, or the right enzymes, to digest foods, which shows up as intolerances. Many people with intolerances can enjoy those foods if they use enzyme supplements. Timing and amount is a little tricky though when trying to make those supplements work.
Load More Replies... S 3 years ago
My allergies can leave me any time they want. They have all the freedom in the world to go. I would never hold them back. GO ON NOW, GIT
Legen ( wait for it ) dary 3 years ago
😂😂 Yes, go and never return please. I buy the tickets. Just go.
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Kimberly Miller 3 years ago
So can epilepsy. I had sudden onset of seizures at 37, and it lasted for 7 years, then went away. No brain injuries, just epilepsy. Go figure.
Marianne 3 years ago
I used to have urticaria. It started after a rash I got from a lotion and lasted about 10 years.
Abhishek Singh 3 years ago
I have been suffering from it for 3 years and it just doesn't go anywhere despite taking different medications.
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Sebastián Morales 3 years ago
i was lactose intolerant from ages 7 to like 10. IDK why but one day it kinda just went away.
Poly Amorous 3 years ago
Got a garlic allergy. RIGHT before a Europe trip. To SPAIN, FRANCE AND ITALY.
Jasper Cool 3 years ago
Ok but hormones definitely affect allergies and food sensitivities. Many people going through peri-menopause suddenly experience histamine issues, hives, itching, and new allergies or food sensitivities because of fluctuations of estrogen and other hormones.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
Ugh. Bastard allergies hit me a few years ago and I never had them before except 2 food allergies
Tammy Moos 3 years ago (edited)
Woke up one morning to discover at brunch that I was deadly allergic to ytee nuts. The week before we had sat down watching a movie with a pkg of mixed nuts as the snack and was fine! Now I can eat some nuts but give me a Brazil nut and call the ambulance for me and get my epipen! Yay allergies!
#25
Focus on the small stuff
Scientists once took a swab of the inside of an American man’s belly button to observe the bacteria that lived there.
They found bacteria previously only known to exist in Japan. The man had never traveled outside of the U.S.
So you never know what other country’s bacteria you’re carrying in your belly button.
Jessica Cifelli 3 years ago
Did he wear clothing made in Japan? Or maybe used medicines made in Japan?
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
The point is that the bacteria was “previously only known to exist in Japan”, not “can only come from Japan, period.” It just means scientists hadn’t seen that species/strain anywhere EXCEPT Japan prior to this. It could exist on penguins in the Arctic as well, we just haven’t discovered that yet :)
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Diamond Velvetleaf 3 years ago
...so you never know where your belly button may travel without you!
Concept-Peter Roosdorp 3 years ago
This is actually just a tip of the iceberg when it comes to bellybutton bacteria.
I'm.Just.A.Girl 3 years ago
I read this fact another listing with more detail and it was a woman who had the bacteria in her belly button from Japan.
Jaybird3939 3 years ago
I have a stinky, sweaty belly button. I decided no more of that. Swabbed it out with peroxide. Not a problem any more.
#26
Behind the Scenes of You
The brain chemistry is stable enough to last thousands of years if not diseased, it's the rest of the body that kills us.
Shelli Aderman 3 years ago
The meat puppet part of us… makes sense why some folks opt for cryogenic burial. 🤨
Black Pearl 3 years ago
So doesn't that mean we could just remove our brains and put them into a new body and live even longer?
Sam J 3 years ago
Theoretically, yes, but doing that would be very difficult and it would require extreme caution and precision from the surgeons. (Presumably)
Load More Replies... Thomas Ewing 3 years ago
Thank God I'm not going to be physical for thousands of years. Heaven is much nicer!
Party Poison 3 years ago
That means we could be nearly immortal through brain-in-a-jar, like Lovecraft's Mi-Go do with humans for traveling through space.
raincloud the whalien 3 years ago
So our brain will kill our body, but our body always kills our brain. How the tables turn.
Al Padilla 3 years ago
Not actually true. It's not "metabolism" but rather our "wetware" which consists of a couple of hundred billion neurons, each with lots of connections. These connections form, break, reform, etc. Degenerative diseases, like Alzheimer's, and a host of others, damage these connections, eventually faster than they can be restored. "Metabolism" is how the energy to run the system is produced, and where the energy to manufacture new components comes from, and how various chemicals (amino acids, sugars, neurotransmitters) are synthesized and interconverted. It's only recently that it was found that some human neurons in the brain can be replaced. (Happens seasonally in songbirds, though)
the shrimp whisperer 3 years ago
thank goodness for the body bro if i lived for more than 95 years i would just say "im done" and gtfo
#27
Unexpected Pain Points
It is always making disgusting body noises. The only reason you are not aware of it is because the ambient noise kind of drowns it out because your ears focus on it.
If you go to one of those super-silent rooms that absorb all sorts of sounds, it is a really weird way to reacquaint yourself with your body.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
I believe this is the basis for a lot of ASMR - squishy, squirty whooshy noises and so forth trigger relaxation in some people because it creates memories of being in the womb. A smart ASMR person would take more advantage of this for their channel.
Scotira 3 years ago
Aaah, fun! Those weird crunching noises your knees make, when walking down the stairs. The joy of getting older 😅😉🤣
KimB 3 years ago
Snap crackle pop and we're not eating rice crispies! : D
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Lasa Malstria 3 years ago
When I was a kid, at night I would lay in bed listening to the sound of my heart beating and, if it was quiet enough, the sound of my blood pumping in my head. I can still remember the sounds, even if I can't hear them anymore.
#28
Hidden Surprises Inside
It’s possible to develop tumors with hair, teeth, and even eyes. They are called teratomas.
CHuZ 3 years ago
Yeah I'm a histopathologist. I have to regularly sample them, and trust me they have the most gross texture. Like sticking your hand down a greasy clogged drainpipe
Scotira 3 years ago
I DO NOT ENVY YOU! 🙈🙈 It's enough for me to see them in the CAT scan, thank you very much! 😅
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Thomas Ewing 3 years ago
I love teratomas! I must look! lol. Oh, look, a frosted pop-tart! yum!
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Silent Expressions
Your fingers and toes have no muscles. All the muscles that control them via tendons are in your forearms/hands and lower legs/feet. Your fingers are like puppets on strings. Sweet dreams.
*Fixed, yes forgot about the muscles in palms/feet. No actual muscles inside the fingers/toes themselves though.
BorrowedThoughts 3 years ago
otherwise we would all have really chunky fingers from all the muscle
PandaRave 3 years ago
We’d all look like some Wallace and Gromit character lol
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Beaver boi🦫🇺🇦 3 years ago
This is not actually true, but a very common myth. Each finger has six muscles in it.
Bonnie Parker 2 years ago (edited)
No they dont.... they have erector pili. Which raise goose bumps...but fingers themselves do no have muscles. Im a massage therapist and i was really confued when you posted this because we study the muscle extensively, but upon looking at medical websites, no... they do not have 6 mucles in what we see as our fingers. The hand has muscles that help do things though, like touch our thumb to our pinky finger.
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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Finger and toes do have muscles, but they're not responsible for movement. They're tiny and attached to hair follicles.
Al Padilla 3 years ago
Sorry. Incorrect. The stronger muscles bending and extending the fingers are indeed in the forearms, but for more delicate movements of the hands (and maybe if you want to be a toe-pianist, the feet) there are "intrinsic" muscles of the hands & feet. More there than in the limb. See: https://quizlet.com/ca/272428597/lab-8-intrinsic-muscles-of-the-hand-diagram/
the shrimp whisperer 3 years ago
i was wondering why my fingers were spidery but my palms are T H I C C
Rannveig Ess 3 years ago
Old party trick: Lay your arm, palm facing up, on a flat surface. Relax your hand! Have someone (or you) gently squeeze the the area just below your wrist. Your fingers will move on their own, like a puppet. Squeezing select, small areas move individual fingers. You can do this to a friend and it freaks the hell out of people. Tell them it's all a scientific experiment to calm them down :)
#30
Cell Drama Unfolding
Your butthole and your mouth originate from the same cell grouping during development, but the butthole cells form first, then the mouth cells from them. That means your mouth is from your a*s.
NsG 3 years ago
Well, we are just one long tube from mouth to bum with twiddly bits in the middle.
Just a ray of f'ing sunshine 3 years ago
I love "twiddly bits" I'm going to use this again if you don't mind.
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Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago (edited)
I always thought it was the eyes... the opto-rectal nerve you need to cut to prevent that shitty outlook on life....
#31
That our immune system has cells specifically engineered to fight EVERY ILLNESS PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE, and other cells have the specific job of searching for them within our body when they are needed. Once they get activated once, they are active for the rest of your life, it’s why you can only get many diseases once, after that first time, your immune system can skip the start up phase of curing you and get right to the germ fighting.
RafCo 3 years ago
massive oversimplification. Not all immunities last a lifetime, and many viruses mutate over time. And as for EVERY ILLNESS... That's totally false. Your immune system can detect and kill viruses, for which it has already developed anti-bodies. That's why you go get vaccinated. But bacterial infections can easily overwhelm your immune system. And prions are a whole other category of disease
Lazy Panda 3 years ago
And this is why vaccines work, they teach your cells to recognize the disease without having to get sick with it the first time.
#32
Not sure if this is by design, but I totaled my car once, almost completely uninjured somehow. Then I looked down to my right hand which I remember jabbing into my dashboard at 55mph. Luckily (unluckily?) only my pinky took the blow. But instead of a floppy-udder full of bone-sand, my pinky was 0.5 inches long. Broke no bones, but instead perfectly stacked my phalanges, or finger bones, INTO my hand. This is fixed by a muscular Russian murse grabbing your pinky with both hands and pulling very hard. God I wish they gave me more lidocaine. TL;DR: Hit my pinky on dashboard, stacked finger bones instead of fracturing them.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
Would you rather them lie about the nurse’s ethnicity?
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Some people suffer from Exploding Head Syndrome, which causes them to hear a loud bang when they wake up.
Ricardo Ferreira 3 years ago
Maybe they should change its name to "Pseudo" Exploding Head Syndrome?
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kathryn stretton 3 years ago
This happens to me quite often. I never knew it had a name. It has never bothered me any more than random short bursts of tinnitus does. I'm pretty sure it's relatively common.
Belynda Young 3 years ago
I developed that syndrome about a year and a half ago, Happens sometimes when falling asleep.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
Correction: The loud explosion (much more than just a bang!) wakes them up. Source: have had that happen to me several times and it's terrifying.
Mela Queen 2 years ago
Noo it's a loud bang while falling asleep that causes you to wake up 😭 it's awful!
#34
So you know all those random bacteria that live in your digestive tract and help you break down the food so you can absorb the nutrients? Sometimes those little beasties lose the plot and can start eating the inside of your GI tract. This causes your body to try and flush them out through natural processes (ie: diarrhea), but this doesn't affect the bacteria doing the harm and just causes you to get incredibly sick for months while doctors trying to figure out whats happening. Source: my one in a billion genetic lottery "winner"
Official_Blink️ 3 years ago
Idk if its related or what but my father has ulcerative colitis... It causes the bacteria to eat his intestine which leads to blood coming out in his stool and urine... He has it from last few years and is on regular medication but he is currently totally fine
#35
The symptoms of heart attacks are different from men and women. There is more research on men than women as well. I've heard of multiple people who have died from a heart attack because they went in and the doctors didn't recognize it because it's not the normal symptoms seen from a male.
nini 3 years ago
Or sometimes just dizziness/toothache/tiredness/dyspnoea/stomach aches... The symptoms can be really unspecific
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Have sometimes encountered some doctors who refused to admit that someone had a disease they clearly had because the symptoms didn't match exactly perfectly to what they had been trained. My wife almost died of appendicitis because her doctor refused to admit she had it because of that, she only survived because we ignored that idiot and took her to the emergency room. It's despicable for doctors to be that incompetent.
Ladyvischuss 3 years ago
Crash test dummies are also based on the size of the average man. That's why men fare better than women in car accidents.
Meghna Mohan 3 years ago
My brother-in-law threw up nonstop for no reason after an hour long bicycle ride. Something made my sister take him to the nearest clinic, she was informed he was having a heart attack. They placed a pill underneath his tongue and organized an ambulance to go to the nearest hospital. It saved his life, he had 100% blockage in 3 arteries and 85% blockage in 1 artery. These are the major arteries I am talking about. So glad he got timely help and advise. He is a healthy, fit and active man, no underlying health conditions in the half yearly check ups till this happened. Our clan went and got tested for the heart too. It is important we all do. A female friend had continued pain in the shoulder for a week, when she finally went to the doctor for a checkup, he tried to see where the pain was emanating from, he just touched her shoulder and she collapsed, froth formed around her mouth and she never came back. They tried to revive her for 3 hours. We lost an amazing human being that day.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
I experienced shoulder and neck pain, nausea, lightheadedness, and a general sense that someone was horribly wrong. Minimal chest pain and no shooting pains down my left arm.
Leeds Lass 3 years ago
I just 'came over funny' and went outside for a cigarette (lol) felt like someone was nipping the back of my arm- went to the hospital about 2 hours later and was in surgery within 15 minutes.
#36
You can get so constipated you start throwing up poop.
Jing Yi Xu 3 years ago
This happened to my grandma on her deathbed. She was so constipated that the poop can only travel up. Apparently the smell is meant to be horrible. Poor Grandma. I wish she didn't suffer for so much.
Patti Vance 3 years ago
true! i had a bowel obstruction but didn't realize it. started running high fever, nauseated, dizzy-basically just a mess. thought it was a bad flu until i saw the ambulance show up. my son had come over to talk with me & he said i wasn't making sense. he thought i was having a stroke. after the diagnosis (it was the result of my drs adjusting meds that caused bowel action to stop) i had to get a nasal tube passed into my stomach-not fun process while getting it but okay afterwards. it caused me to retch and, yes...the nurse looks at me and says 'we need to get this in quick because that is stool'. soooo disgusting!!!!
RoseTheMad 3 years ago
Yep, and you'll likely go into toxic shock too, which ofc, can be deadly.
Ellen Ranks 3 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veHTTuePS1w&ab_channel=SouthParkStudios
Diliana Andreeva 3 years ago
Done that! It's horrible and the taste... one I can only wish to forget (sick)
#37
Precision Under Pressure
The tiniest injury to your brain can change your entire life. Depending on the part of the brain that gets hurt, you can lose your special/general senses, control over your own body, the ability to produce and/or comprehend language, your memories, your personality, etc. Remember to wear a helmet everyone!
Viola Yarrow 3 years ago
I think that there was this Australian woman who hit her head and started talking with an Irish accent. Nobody knows why and she’d never been to Ireland
Hedgeh og 3 years ago
Yes, this is a known condition; it's called Foreign Accent Syndrome. https://sites.utdallas.edu/fas/
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Marianne 3 years ago
On the other hand, a huge brain injury might have almost no consequences, if you're lucky.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
I wish my dad had been so fortunate :( He fell off of a ladder, sustained a catastrophic brain injury, and was wrecked. Coma, then diapers, feeding tube, couldn’t speak/communicate, nearly vegetative, bedridden for 21 years until he finally passed away. I lost “my dad” on the day of his accident, though his body lived on.
Load More Replies... sofacushionfort 3 years ago
Being bullied for minor neural divergences will change your life’s trajectory even more.
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
I was bullied for being a high-functioning autistic - what back in the day would be called an Aspie (for Asperger's syndrome). Fortunately, my few friends stood up for me and understood my eccentricities. As for my father - he looked like the classic nerd, but could he be a tiger when he came to my defense!
Load More Replies... RafCo 3 years ago
This is why Sylvester Stallone talks that way. People make fun of him, but it was actually due to a problematic labor for his mother. The doctors severed a nerve, and Mr. Stallone has paralysis in parts of his face. It's why he "talks funny" and has that same expression all the time.
Vee Dub 3 years ago (edited)
It unlocked skills from a previous version ... watch "The Adjustment Bureau", another movie based on a short story of Philip K. D**k (and this is his name BP, so please think before censoring it). Edit: which you didn't do and so the name of a great writer is censored. Could you at least try to implement an algorithm that tries to notice context? With "Philip K." before it "D**k" is just a fogging name and not a dreogaroty word for a male body part. Let me guess: male will be censored too? Edit 2: maybe quotation marks help? Will try in separate comment ... Edit 3: nope, doesn't help, only thing that seems to be working is editing the comment after the censoring ...
#38
When someone diets and loses weight, that fat isn't pooped out. Most of what you poop comes from something in your digestive track you consumed. Fat burned is exhaled out as carbon dioxide.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
People don't realize most of their poop is bacteria, a huge amount of it is dead blood cells, and the rest is your digested food.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
Nope - you could also choose to not consume any calories! :D Your base metabolic rate burns calories to power your body’s functions, so as long as you don’t eat, you can lose weight without having to exercise! :p
Load More Replies... Lakota Wolf 3 years ago (edited)
Uh… you also don’t magically “exhale” fat. Your fat cells shrink and the fat you burn is converted to carbon dioxide, which you then exhale. You never really “lose” fat (the cells themselves). You also don’t exhale literal fat molecules XD You have to consume fewer calories than your body burns per day in order to lose weight (i.e., cut calories and/or exercise). So no, you aren’t going to lose weight just breathing… unless you don’t intake in any calories XD
AnxietyRiddenMom 3 years ago
As I sit hyperventilating . Whatcha doing? Getting rid of fat! 😂😂😂
#39
Your skin is your biggest, most complex, and least understood organ. Your skin is what most everyone considers their identity. Your skin has an amazing amount of specialized areas and functions. Elbow skin is very different than the skin covering your ears. Skin is an external organ. It’s an organ that is in contact constantly with the world around you. All of your visible body is skin, except for your eyes and hair and nails. Your skin requires more energy to sustain than any other part of your body. Skin is f****n wild. The actual “you” is wrapped in a big sweaty blanket we call skin.
Terry Tobias 3 years ago
The fact that our skin is our largest organ is my favorite Trivial Pursuit question. That... and what Scuba stands for. (Self contained underwater breathing apparatus)
#40
Silent Signals
There are 1000 types of parasites that can live in the human body. There are only tests for 50-60 of them.
I’m sorry everyone, but they asked.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
On the bright side, there is a lot of hypothesizing that our immune systems aren't really healthy without a parasitic infection. Thinking about it, humans didn't reach a point where they wouldn't be constantly infested by parasites until just recently, so that is clearly an unnatural state for our bodies, to not have parasites at all.
Hazel Sage 3 years ago (edited)
When caring for farm animals, farmers typically use “worm load” to determine whether to give their animals anti-parasite meds. The meds are pretty harsh, so below a certain “worm load” threshold, it does more harm than good to use them. We check our animals about once a month, unless we have reason to believe that the animal may have recently come into contact with a potential infection source, or are displaying symptoms. With high-quality food, good exercise, and healthy care practices (I don’t believe in overwintering egg layers, for example), a low worm load doesn’t impact their lives negatively.
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Being ignored or rejected has the same effect on the brain as a physical injury. Repeated rejection overtime causes other mental and physical health probkems like depression and ptsd. We never forget the feeling of being rejected or ignored and when recalling the memory you feel the emotional pain again. When we try recall physical pain, our brains do not allow it happen. You know you had pain at the time but the memory doesn't cause the pain again.
I' Gomez & Morticia's kid 3 years ago
Getting rejected or ignored by your parent(s) is one of the painful experiences one can experience.
Black Pearl 3 years ago
Oh. Now I feel bad. I've rejected two of my friends when they've tried to make advances.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
Don’t feel bad - if you didn’t have “those kind” of feelings for them, it would have been worse for you AND them to not reject them!! It’s okay! Just talk to them about it if you can and explain you still care about them :) It can go a long way towards helping people cope with rejection - understanding the “why” instead of it just happening to them.
Load More Replies... Paul Davis 3 years ago
Very good point. This also implies that many depressed people should try the new drugs they're developing for PTSD.
#42
The fastest killing virus takes around 4 days to kill you. That would be Ebola. Your immune system can kill you in 15 minutes.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
Yes - two ways I can think of right away. One, if you have a reaction that swells up your throat and chokes you to death. Two, because if you have something like septicemia and your entire body thinks it's being attacked all at once it opens up the blood vessels of the entire body to allow white blood cells to move in and the liquid seeps out, so now you can't even pump blood, and if you can't pump enough blood to move enough oxygen to your brain you die. All of that could easily happen in minutes.
Jing Yi Xu 3 years ago
Well duh. Without our immune system we are defenceless. Ebola only takes 4 days to kill us with our immune system fighting it; how long will it take to kill us without pur immune system?
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
Congenital genetic diseases can kill you minutes after birth.
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As a former civil engineer, it always shocked me how close the waste disposal and recreation areas were placed to each other.
Green Machine 3 years ago
Like putting a sewage treatment plant next to a playground. Who approved that kind of zoning??
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago (edited)
It’s also the best way to prevent pregnancy! (Well, besides never using someone else’s recreation area with your own.)
Load More Replies... InfectedVoice 3 years ago
In my work building the toilets are always next to a break room with a coffee machine, makes sense for the plumbing systems.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
They should just save the land and put them together don't you think? Fun and educational that way.
#44
Adolescence. Most mammals hit adulthood in one clean break. Our kids hit a terrifying state of not being able to take care of themselves but capable of and hormonally hell-bent on reproducing. Like, what kind of messed-up series of horrors made THAT a biological advantage?
Hedgeh og 3 years ago
Well, it's NOT a biological advantage; by that stage we were in caring communities and humans were surviving because of other reasons than sheer evolutionary advantage. That of course has continued, but the "caring" part seems to be plateauing in many places and even going backwards :(
RafCo 3 years ago
Completely inaccurate. Animals do indeed go through adolescence which includes risky behavior. Teen meerkats are known to try and approach their predators. As for sexual maturity vs adulthood. Most dogs are sexually mature by 9 months, but they still exhibit behaviors associated with puppies. The big difference between us and brown bats, has to do with how long we live, not our hormones. And the reason that we are sexually mature during adolescence, but still able to survive as a species has more to do with how human societies were arranged for the first 200,000 years of our existence. Extended families were much more active in the raising of children, as were other members of the tribe (all of whom would have been related in some way)
Paul Davis 3 years ago
This is very silly. It happens to animals too, it's just that the period is much shorter due to the less complex brain development they require to become fully functional.
Chaotic-Pansexual (she/they) 3 years ago
Short lifespans affect it as well
Load More Replies... Mirabelle Skyrim 3 years ago
I once watched a BBC documentary about an infant's first six months and it was explained as 'human babies are born with only half a brain, the rest develops (physically) during the first six months which is why external stimuli is so very important during this time'
Jing Yi Xu 3 years ago
It's a time of trialling and learning. Trust me, I breed fish and some first time fish 'virgin's mess up horribly and eat their eggs and babies. But I get what you mean. It's more like our bodies are mature but our brains are just catching up. Can't be helped thanks to our extra evolved brains
raincloud the whalien 3 years ago (edited)
And that's the shortened version of how middle/high school works
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
Anyone who has raised a puppy or kitten knows that the whole “most mammals hit adulthood in one clean break” is absolute bunk XD
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
I raised two rescue kittens - their mom was a pregnant stray whom a former co-worker took in - and I can tell you about feline adolescence!
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Dav Carro-Ripalda 2 years ago
At age 14, if properly trained, a human can hunt and forrest. Problem is we have developed in a society, where we donnot hunt or forrest: we buy things. And for that we need a different kind of learning. And during that learning period we protect them. You can easily see how different is a change to adulthood on different countries, or economies.
#45
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva is a disease that is undetectable, and the cause is not known. It appears when your muscle cells start being replaced with bone cells. Eventually, over year, your body locks up until you're entirely "locked in" and you suffocate.
Monday 3 years ago
At some point in your life, if you have this, you need to decide whether you want to be frozen in a standing or sitting position for the rest of your life.
Brandon Marlowe 3 years ago
I would have to consider the "Captain Morgan" pose.
Load More Replies... raincloud the whalien 3 years ago
DON'T LET THE UWU GIRLS SEE THIS THEY'LL BE ACTIVELY TRYING TO GET IT
#46
When Five Just Isn’t Enough
Your bones are wet.
ᶜʰᵃᵒᵗⁱᶜ ˡᵉᵍᵃˡ 3 years ago
BAWK BAWK BAKAW (ok sorry I had to I love that lol)
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Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
I’ll die and decompose and desiccate in a desert JUST to come back as an internet ghost to message OP and say “WHOSE BONES ARE WET NOW, HUH??!” XD
Paul Davis 3 years ago
Why would this be a surprise? Would anyone actually think, or want, their bones to be dry?
PandaRave 3 years ago
That’s not surprising. We’re all sloppy bloody meat bags with some bones concealing the fleshy goodness. I wonder what a human would look like without skin. All our blood would just pour from us, we’d lose organs left and right, and my bones would probably topple over at the slightest bump.
#47
Your butt hole print is more unique than your fingerprint, thank Salvador Dali for that discovery.
Nathaniel 3 years ago
Who's leaving butt prints at crime scenes though? Colin? Have you been at it again?
Alienking06 3 years ago
How did Salvador Dali find this out? Was his secret side gig Butt Hole Inspector?
RafCo 3 years ago (edited)
there goes my plan of getting away with murder by using my a**s to hold the knife: EDIT: A-n-u-s was censored, but penis, vagina, butt hole is fine? WFT!
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
If I’m ever arrested, I’m going to refuse to get fingerprinted and tell them they have to butt-print my heiny-hole. After all, it’s more accurate and unique than fingerprints.
#48
A few weeks ago I had emergency surgery because I was severely bleeding out internally. The source was a ruptured ovarian cyst. Worst pain of my life. I don’t have PCOS or any reproductive condition and the doctors informed me that everyone with a uterus has existing cysts. It’s a matter of tough f****n luck that one of mine tried to kill me but it could happen to anyone.
Black Pearl 3 years ago
F**k I hate my stupid uterus every single time I learn something new about it
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago (edited)
Same. I knew by the time I was 13 that I was never going to use my uterus as intended (started menstruation at 11). I used to beg my mom to let me have a hysterectomy. I didn’t realize back then that doctors won’t just “let” you remove your uterus unless you have a medical reason XD It may be different now, but the ol’ b-word and I have coexisted for 40 years at this point, so I probably wouldn’t bother. Menopause soon anyway, yay!
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Lillukka79 3 years ago
I've had a cyst everytime I've gone to the gyno. Hurts like hell when it bursts, but luckily never neede surgery.
#49
People with pancreatic cancer can have a “sense of impending doom” weeks to months before being diagnosed. Edit: sorry for adding to your anxieties! If you aren’t a middle aged or older smoker, you shouldn’t worry too much about this. If you are…please stop smoking. There are drugs and behavioral therapies that can help you quit. I love you. Edit 2: as others have pointed out, there are other diseases that have this symptom too. You can freak out about this fact or just take the moral of the story: if you feel like something is wrong, don’t wait (hesitation is defeat). Set up an appointment with your doctor, ask them what it could be and how they’re going to determine what it is. Ask questions and take care of yourself.
Jing Yi Xu 3 years ago
Can't believe the first 'I love you' I've heard this week is from a post on pancreatic cancer...still, I'll take all the love I can get
Jill Hojnacki 3 years ago
Good advice if you live in a country that considers health care to be a right. Here in the US, few could afford to follow it, assuming the insurance carriers would allow all of the tests to begin with.
TheVioletDragon 3 years ago
I knew someone who was in good health but she gor cancer anyway. She went to Mexico Japan and China to try literally any kind of medication. She passed away sadly. So it could happen to anyone
Alicia Kessinger Bader 3 years ago
In my case, the last time I experienced the "sense of impending doom" was when my husband committed suicide. We were separated at the time; I was in the South, he was in the North. It was a week before I could get anyone to perform a wellness check. Intuition is an amazing capacity. I'm thankful for mine.
Scotira 3 years ago
Excuse me, SOME people with pancreatic cancer have that feeling! WTF? Pancreatic cancer is one of those going undetected for so long, when problems arise, it's too late for a cure! Most people to survive this form of cancer are lucky, bc the cancer was found by accident in the early stages.
#50
That the placebo effect is way stronger than most people think. In Vsauce's video on the subject, a kid suffering from constant seizures stopped having the seizures, I'm pretty sure entirely. And all because they put him in a machine that they said "healed him" when in reality it did nothing.
Monday 3 years ago
It works for causing illness too. If you and a group of friends single out one friend and take turn throughout the day telling them things like "oh are you okay, you look a little pale" and "Geez man you look like s**t, are you sick?", by the end of the day your poor victim will likely have real symptoms.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
Bulldink. Epilepsy is caused by electrical/physical disorders of the brain. Not even “believing” in some kind of “healing placebo” will fix seizures. I watched the video and the research was NOT done on kids with epileptic seizures… they told kids with ADHD, migraines, skin picking impulses, etc. that the machine could “improve their focus/concentration” and “help their headaches”… not that it was going to cure seizures.
#51
Invisible Warriors at Work
Your immune system doesn’t know your eyes exist, if it did it would attack them and make you go blind.
Jubum 3 years ago
"A chronic disorder of the immune system appears to favor the occurrence of age-related macular degeneration. Those affected become irrevocably blind. Age-related macular degeneration, AMD for short, is the most common cause of blindness in western industrialized countries. As a result, patients initially see blurred, distorted or a dark spot in the center of the field of vision, and later they become completely blind. A German-British research team has now found an important key to the development of AMD: the immune system of AMD sufferers is overactive and presumably therefore leads to blindness. This is what researchers around Hendrik P. N. Scholl from the University Eye Clinic in Bonn write in the online publication "Public Library of Science ONE". According to this, a dysregulation of the so-called complement system leads to blindness in old age. It is an important part of the innate immune system and is involved in inflammatory reactions.
Jubum 3 years ago
So far, it was only known that genes that carry the genetic information for certain proteins of the complement system increase the risk of AMD.
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Jing Yi Xu 3 years ago
Ok who writes these and who proofreads this to make sure this stuff isn't made up? Don't infections happen in the eyes all the time and the immune system attacks the infection???
Scotira 3 years ago
Not in the eye but around the eye or on the surface of the eye. The inside is a hollow body filled with liquid. The retina lines the inside. But you are right, some of these posts are halftruths and some are incorrect without further context.
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#52
Most of the bacteria that will decompose you when you die is already inside you and makes up a sizeable portion of your body mass. That’s why removing organs staves off decomposition of a body for longer.
Jing Yi Xu 3 years ago
And that's why adding extra sources of bacteria, like yoghurt up a corpses a**s, will help it to decompose faster
#53
Your life is currently on a timer of around 6 minutes. After 6 minutes, you will die. Every time you breath this timer is reset.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
IMA PROVE YOU WRONG, OP. Okay, I’ll be back in 7 minutes to prove that it’s not a 6-minute timer!!
#54
Your fingernails grow four times as fast as your toenails Babies are born with 300 bones – adults have 206 Eyelashes last about 150 days The heart circulates blood through your body about 1,000 times each day You make about half a quart (500ml) of spit each day The smallest bone in your body is in your ears Your blood has the same amount of salt in it as the ocean does A sneeze blows air out of your nose at 100 miles per hour
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
Just saying, I have 208 bones. Mild birth defects that is unnoticed unless you get x-rays and mris
Scotira 3 years ago
And it also depends on which anatomy book you learn from and the country your in 🙈🤦♀️🤣🤣 why make it easy. 206-212 bones, in your case 214 😇
Load More Replies... Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
Your blood has as much salt as the ocean? I believe you mean that your blood is as salty as ocean water.
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 3 years ago
The bones fuse together to become one bone i think
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#55
Our brains create false memories way more often than we think. False memories occur pretty easily as well. Going along with that, the more "vivid" a memory seems the more likely it is that it's fabricated. On top of that, the more we recall a memory, the more susceptible to change it becomes and then the modifications that have been made seem more real because us recalling and then consolidating it further cements it in our memory to be "true". A fun fact to go along with all this information is that deja vu is actually your brain spontaneously fabricating a new false memory and that's a perfect example that showcases the vividness we experience in our false memories.
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
Of course, it's good to know if some of those made-up memories are disturbing or embarrassing.
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
You don't remember the original event; you remember the last time you remembered the memory. It's like a horrible game of Telephone.
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
Flashbulb memories, which occur at the time of shocking events - the destruction of the Challenger space shuttle, the 9/11 attacks, etc. - are not reliable. You hear people say "Oh yeah, I remember exactly where I was when I heard that President Kennedy had been shot" or some other earth-moving event - or something more personal. Yet a study involving people who were around at the time of the Challenger explosion showed that these could change greatly over time. Look it up.
Load More Replies... Lakota Wolf 3 years ago (edited)
My sister likes to use this to tell me I wasn’t abused by our mother and that I’m “making it all up”. (My sister was never abused as she is my mother’s biological child; I’m adopted.) However, she shuts up fast when I remind her about the literal knife scars I have from my mother’s physical abuse :) (edit: my sister was THERE for a lot of the physical, emotional, and psychological abuse, but she will justify it by saying “it wasn’t THAT bad” or “you deserved it”. She’s my mother’s daughter, for sure! She even uses some of the same language and will try to hit me/hurt me physically when she gets pissed at me. I’m 40 and she’s 46.)
#56
If you have a surgery where they need to move your organs around they might not function for a day as the body assumes that they are dead.
Monday 3 years ago
Imagine if humans worked like this "Oh Carl isn't sitting at his usual desk...guess he's dead".
Sylwia Kontowicz 3 years ago
During pregnancy most of my organs has been moving and they were working quite well, but my brain stopped functioning for even a year after birthgiving. Another pregnancy miracle
#57
Your body will begin its inevitable decline DECADES before your mind does. You can mitigate it, but nothing can stop it.
#58
My immune system is trying to kill me. It thinks that producing insulin is bad so it kills off insulin producing beta cells. Type 1 diabetes is a f*****g hassle.
Anjelika 3 years ago
My immune system thinks that my hair is bad, so it attacks it. I could care less about the hair on my arm, legs or other places but I miss my eyebrows, eyelashes and patches of hair (alopecia). Diabetes of any type is a b***h to deal with 😕, I'm sorry you have to go through that.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
My immune system thinks that saliva, tears, and capillary valves are bad. I'm honestly wondering if it also thinks that hair is bad now too. In the past few years, I've lost most of the outer parts of my eyebrows, about half the thickness of my scalp hair, and most of my body hair. Apparently, I'm collecting autoimmune diseases against my will.
Load More Replies... Sheba's Mum 3 years ago
My immune system attacks itself, generally in my bowels. Crohn's is a b***h
Terry Tobias 3 years ago
My sister is Type I and has struggled with it since she was nine. This was in the 60's ands i remember my dad telling us other kids that she probably wouldn't live to see 40. But thanks to alot of work and alot of medical advancements, she was healthy enough to have a baby while in her 30's and has raised that girl to be the sweetheart that she is.
#59
The number-one symptom of heart disease is sudden death.
#60
Cool, But Not Refreshing
You make and swallow between 1 and 2 liters of saliva. Every. Day.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
Except for some loons who try to spit it out. Met a guy once who did that and he explained that he thought his stomach would fill up if he didn't spit, and that he would die.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
Aww, how cute, you think it ends up swallowed? I guarantee you at least half of what I produce gets drooled onto/into my pillow at night :p (…yes, I have several and I wash them regularly because otherwise eeeeew XD )
Dav Carro-Ripalda 3 years ago
Somebody on this post said we produce 1/2 a litre, so, how can we swallow between 1 and 2 if we only produce 1/2? Are we swallowing somebody else's fluids? French kissing, maybe?
#61
We are topologically a donut. We have a hole in our face that leads all the way to our butt hole.
Ophelia Vandergurgleduffen 3 years ago
There are other holes, but they’re more like deep pockets. The gastrointestinal tract goes completely through while the ears, respiratory tract, and genitourinary tracts are deep pockets.
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User# 6 3 years ago
More of a meat tube with some extra openings that lead nowhere.
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#62
All of the DNA that encodes the amazing properties of being human is only about 770MB. Most of the complexity is the environment that the software runs in, not the software itself.
Sky Render 3 years ago
That sounds impressive, yet is slightly misleading. If your source code is 770MB on its own after being compiled and without any outside dependencies included, that is a huge chunk of code! In most programming languages, that would equal several gigabytes of just raw code!
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
I'm pretty sure my body doesn't have sufficient RAM to run the software properly.
#63
8 % of our DNA is actually from viruses.
Joran Quinten 3 years ago
It's putting the "I" in virus. Or the "us" when speaking for a group
#64
We clean only one part of our skeleton (teeth)
Black Pearl 3 years ago
That's my least favorite part of my skeleton. It's caused me too many issues.
#65
Our bodies cells are constantly being subjected to mutations which could lead to transformation into cancer or pre-cancer cells. We depend on a number of DNA repair pathways and our immune system to catch these errors and destroy the affected cell but ultimately the risk grows with time.
#66
Halitosis is the first stage of aging and starts at age 2.
Chaotic-Pansexual (she/they) 3 years ago
For those who don’t wanna look it up, halitosis means bad breath
#67
Our vaginas have enough acid in them to disintegrate a BUG. i could have disintegrated a bug with my gorilla grip and didn't even know it.
gellert grindlewald 3 years ago
might be rather hard for you to disintegrate a bug, then.
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Nemo 3 years ago
But how much time does ot take to disintegrate a bug? And what bug are we talking about? Do we have to fear bugs crawling up there?
Chaotic-Pansexual (she/they) 3 years ago
Well it seems we wouldn’t have to worry about them, because they’d disintegrate
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#68
We know more about earth and the universe than we do about the human brain.
Black Pearl 3 years ago
Well the brain is super complicated and I think the fact that everyone's brain acts slightly differently doesn't help.
DC 3 years ago
True that! Also, the tendency of societies to enforce uniformism way over any reasonable top sets the prejudce for what brain functions and/or results thereof shall be seen as being defective.
Load More Replies... Paul Davis 3 years ago
Depends on how you measure knowledge? That can be a very arbitrary definition.
#69
There is more bacteria DNA than human DNA in you. And don't get me started on the amount of fungus living on our skin.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
People need to accept that we're symbiotes and need bacteria to survive, as they need us to survive.
Alicia Kessinger Bader 3 years ago
I've been saying we're symbiotes for years. My family & friends look at me like I'm crazy.
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#70
Not the most disturbing, but bones are made of living tissue that breaks down and rebuilds consistently. Progesterone (for afab) and testosterone (for amab) ensure this rebuilding, meaning that if you lose those for an extended time (long-termloss of period or unnaturally low testosterone) you'll get osteopenia: your bones will have holes in them. Second bonus fact for afabs: If you for any reason lose your reproductve hormones for years, your uterus and ovaries "shrink" like raisins, and it takes time to get them back to their original form.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
Those hormones regulate the osteoclasts, which are cells that destroy bone tissue, and osteoblasts, which are cells that build bone tissue.
Kori 3 years ago
And why on earth do we need cells that destroy bone tissue??
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Aldea Weldon-Parker 3 years ago
... I did not need to- imagine finding this out after nearly a year of taking birth control for PCOS without the cysts. (stopped having my period for about ten months.) My hormones, likely my estrogen went out of wack and stopped. Little did I know I guess they were trying to turn my ovaries and uterus into meat raisins ig
Scotira 3 years ago
You do not take out the testicles when doing a vasectomie. So they still produce the hormone.
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It survives more trauma than people expect. People generally assume if your hurt badly that you die quickly, but most often you do not.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
The sad part of this is that when people are younger and have fatal illnesses they often struggle and suffer a very long time, when you become very elderly you just die without nearly as much suffering.
#72
The path for air shares some of the same path for food and water, resulting in people choking to death. Almost happened to me a few times, and they were the most terrifying moments of my life.
Nathaniel 3 years ago
If we were designed by an intelligent being, we'd have two tubes, or even three, one for air, one for food, on for water.
Monday 3 years ago
And the air tube wouldn't be anywhere near the food tube
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Shelli Aderman 3 years ago
Not 100%. It STARTS the same, but there are TWO distinct pipes. One for food, one for air. Thank G-d for the uvula! 😉
InfectedVoice 3 years ago
If you've nearly choked a few times in your life, you need to slow down and chew more, choking on food to the point of it being terrifying is not common.
I'm.Just.A.Girl 3 years ago (edited)
Sometimes at night, I get heartburn badly enough that I wake up choking. And when that happens, I must run to a place where I can throw up. Then the acid sits in the back of my throat making it difficult to breathe, and in episodes that are not so serious; It just makes it difficult to fall back asleep without constantly coughing to clear my throat. So yes, separate tubes would've been amazing
#73
Microscopic Creepy Crawlies
Mites that live and feed on your face.
Bonnie Buttons 3 years ago
Nathaniel, you're funny. You write the best comments.
Load More Replies... Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
I love my mites. They’re cool and they eat my dead skin cells and face oils and such.
#74
Inside Out Inspiration
That our own Immun system can kill us by defending itself against intruders by basically blowing themselves up.
Kathleen Schmidt 3 years ago
Having systemic Lupus, my immune system is trying to kill me. I have to take meds to cripple my immune system in an effort to slow down its attack.
Stephanie Barr 3 years ago
This is, in a way, what made the Spanish flu so deadly for young healthy people. They died in an overreaction of the immune system. If I understand it correctly (not a doctor).
#75
Idk why it freaked me out but bones have holes in them for blood vessels called foramens. Also there is a tube from your ears to nose to oral cavity. And if they do a temporary craniotomy to remove pressure, they put the piece of skull in your stomach in the meantime
Cora Han 3 years ago
I believe they didn't mean you actual stomach. They place the bone under a flap of skin on your abdomen.
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Jill Hojnacki 3 years ago
No. Stomach acid would dissolve it if it was placed IN the stomach. Traditionally, the fragment was sewn under a flap of skin on the abdomen or thigh. Now, it’s often dried and frozen. Here’s the patent from 2008: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20100094360A1/en
#76
Heartstrings are a real thing. The proper name is chordae tendineae. If you thought 'pulling on the heartstrings' was just an expression with no basis in anatomy, it does actually relate to a real kind of tendon in the body.
#77
I'm seeing a lot of comments that apply to literally every single animal species. Here is one that specifically applies to humans. We're the only ones capable of drinking milk past infancy, many of us hold on to lactase persistence. Added bonus, were the only ones who drinks milk from another species.
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
Not all cats can. Some are lactose intolerant. You cat may vary.
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Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
My pup drinks cow milk kefir as part of his illness treatment and loves it as well! I think it’s because dogs are omnivorous-carnivores and the “fats/protein” smell/taste of milk and dairy products attracts them.
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#78
There are more molucules in your finger than there are fingers on planet Earth.
#79
It may seem like we know a lot about the human brain, but our standard way of studying brain activity is an fMRI, where a single pixel contains over 3 million neurons. That is more than many vertebrate animals' entire brains. The truth is, we really have no idea how the brain gives rise to consciousness. Even if we somehow perfectly worked out all the neural correlates of consciousness so we could say a mental state happens if and only if some exact pattern of brain activity happens, we would still have the "hard problem" of consciousness: Why do these physical processes give rise to raw subjective experience, rather than just happening "in the dark"?
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Actually, this isn't entirely true. A neurosurgeon operating on a woman to relieve her intractable epilepsy accidentally shocked her claustrum and "turned off" her consciousness. She was observably awake, but unresponsive except for autonomous functions. Another zap brought her awareness back, and she remembered nothing during the period she was "turned off." (Note: The claustrum is a blanket-like organ that connects most areas of the brain to one another. If you think of the various parts of the brain like the musicians in an orchestra, the claustrum is the conductor.) https://www.sciencenews.org/article/electrode-turns-consciousness-and
#80
if you need to take a s**t, you can feel it on the left side of your stomach just about near your hip bone, it will feel like a harder lump than on the other side...as you have your bowel "movement" you can feel the lump moving along through your lower intestine and the "lump" goes away
Paul Davis 3 years ago
Keep in mind some people have reverse organs, so would feel it on the right.
InfectedVoice 3 years ago
Why keep that in mind exactly? There is nothing to get offended about, it's extremely rare to have reversed organs.
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At any given moment, you are one little blood vessel wall away from not being alive anymore. A brain aneurysm can just wipe you out.
Kelzbelz79 3 years ago
Happened to my sister 24th January, only comfort I have is knowing she wouldn't of known a thing about it. 💔💔
Kiwi Panda 3 years ago
And my dad 21 years ago…I’m sorry for the loss of your sister 😞
Load More Replies... Wyndmere 3 years ago
Don't forget to watch for traffic when crossing streets and parking lots. Cars can do a lot of damage too.
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The human body produces roughly 6 cups of mucus a day.
#83
It's not that disturbing but look closely at your feet, your legs aren't centered on them.
#84
Your skin has millions of pores that you can't see with ur human eyes.
#85
All those slimy bags and tubes on the inside.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
When he was little brother went nuts when I tried to show him a book about anatomy. I was very fascinated by it at his age. But he shrieked that the body is made of rubber and there is nothing in there but solid rubber, nothing else. Weird how kids can differ.
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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Frankly, after you survive medical school, you wonder how the heck any of us got past zygote stage, let alone out a birth canal, and then didn't just turn into goop like a big old failed chemistry experiment.
CHuZ 3 years ago
I'm a histopathologist. I've seen tiny embryos less than 2cm long, mastectomies weighing nearly 3kg, uterus the size of a football, cancers in their native form (usually white/cream-ish masses) and as individual cells under the microscope. The human body is truly amazing.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
OK, I have to ask ---- football as in: American football? Or football as in soccer? I know, dumb question. I apologize. My MD nerdiness gets the better of me. Currently collating post-Covid patient data, since Covid itself burned me out on the human race. If you get a chance at post-Covid lung tissues... Just... Astonishing anyone survives what happens to the body.
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TrickQuestion 3 years ago
Many body functions are EXTREMELY painful (swallowing for example). Your body blocks out that pain.
Moxie Mallahan 3 years ago
Well as a generally paranoid person who has dealt with hypochondriac symptoms most of my life, I don’t know WHY I decided to read this list. And now I’m regretting it.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Frankly, after you survive medical school, you wonder how the heck any of us got past zygote stage, let alone out a birth canal, and then didn't just turn into goop like a big old failed chemistry experiment.
CHuZ 3 years ago
I'm a histopathologist. I've seen tiny embryos less than 2cm long, mastectomies weighing nearly 3kg, uterus the size of a football, cancers in their native form (usually white/cream-ish masses) and as individual cells under the microscope. The human body is truly amazing.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
OK, I have to ask ---- football as in: American football? Or football as in soccer? I know, dumb question. I apologize. My MD nerdiness gets the better of me. Currently collating post-Covid patient data, since Covid itself burned me out on the human race. If you get a chance at post-Covid lung tissues... Just... Astonishing anyone survives what happens to the body.
Load More Replies... TrickQuestion 3 years ago
Many body functions are EXTREMELY painful (swallowing for example). Your body blocks out that pain.
Moxie Mallahan 3 years ago
Well as a generally paranoid person who has dealt with hypochondriac symptoms most of my life, I don’t know WHY I decided to read this list. And now I’m regretting it.
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