50 Cool And Interesting Medical Facts You Might Not Know About Your Own Body And Health

Amazing

Not the least bit surprising. All hype, no health benefits.

Farmers are tough. The ones who survive, anyway.

It looks like they're holding cardboard shoe inserts.

The female heart also responds differently to frequent heavy physical exercise

Yes, this in indeed how evolution works.

I would love to learn a new language every week!!

Indeed creeped me out

People with this syndrome have a lower life expectancy, unfortunately. Pain tells us when something is wrong.

They can also see clearly while underwater!

But how does it taste?

Wish more people embraced this

Hands have many of the rest.

*Under local anaesthetic, because drilling a hole into your skull WILL hurt

If I am stressed it always affects my digestive system.

What a surprise

Let us exclude the thumb from the definition of 'finger', then, as it has a muscle in the hand.

I mentioned this in another gut entry and then found this one.

Ms Nightingale was a horrific nurse. Patients under her nursing care died at a far greater rate than other nurses. However, she was an absolutely brilliant hospital administrator. The reduced mortality rates were based on this work, not nursing. The true founder of modern nursing was Mary Seacole. She was a traditional healer and nurse, born to a Scottish father and Creole mother in Jamaica. She faced a great deal of racism.

Feels good though every once in a while

How would you know you had this?

Is this a laughable theory or its frown upon if one laugh at this?

This makes me wonder how stressed I would feel if I didn't read for hours each day and drinking tea while doing it.

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That would suck a lot.

Is this why some ppl can grow extremely long hair and for some it just doesnt grow past a certain point?

And walking during the day moves the tailbone, which acts like a pump for spinal fluid to be pumped into the brain. That is why sitting all day ages the brain.

When working thoracic surgery, I learned that a LOT of pus can accumulate in one's chest...is there anything better than placing a chest tube and draining about 1000ml of creamy, smelly pus??? 🤭 🙋🏽

Unbreakable with Bruce Willis!

K i l l. BP you are getting insane!

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Your body is more like a plant than you think 🌱🌳🌷

An Adam's apple a day...🤷🏽

Having tonsils removed was a common surgery for children, I guess it stopped due to the reasons listed in this post.

This is also why, if you're hot (say you've been out in the sun and sweating a lot), when you urinate, it will cause you to temporarily feel cooler. Urination is known to cause a drop in blood pressure, which has the effect of making you feel cooler. You aren't actually any cooler, it's just a perception.

Reminds me of covering my hands in glue in Primary school and then peeling it off!

I hate carbonated beverages. I always called it "picky." Probably healthier for it.

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I have a kmart bladder. I swear it hears a tinkle of water and thinks its holding 2 litres of water. Having had to drink 2 litres of water in one sitting for an exam, I don't recommend it.

How was that discovered?

In the future, we will have the technology to talk on our phones without being overheard, through subvocalization. I've read sci-fi stories where this is used, and this post explains how it becomes possible. I can see how this tech can benefit society every time I'm on public transportation and I get to hear both sides of a phone conversation on speaker

And that protective mucous layer is what anti inflammatory d***s reduce, which is why they cause bleeding ulcers.

Chemotherapy can also cause this. It can go away afterwards or not. I still have a bit, but not as bad as when I was on chemo.

So about once a year then, from birth?

Feeling cold is actually often an early symptom of having caught a cold

Well I guess I'll just have to live with.. what was I talking about?

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Yeah, we just call this an after dinner stroll. I'll stick with that term instead thanks...

Hope Trumps brain is donated to science it must be quite a mess

Unfortunately, this has led to questionable trends, such as perineum sunning, aka taint tanning

Then why do I have digestive distress within 30 minutes of drinking milk?

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It is also the bone broken during manual strangu*lation. It's a key sign of it found during autopsy