The levels of two stress hormones, cortisol and epinephrine which suppress the body's immune system, will actually drop after a dose of laughter.
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Cigarette smoke contains 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which cause cancer.
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‘Fracture putty’ is a material being developed that when packed in & around a bone fracture, provides full load bearing strength within days.
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In older people, memory is best early in the morning and then declines during the late afternoon.
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After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
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The right lung takes in more air than the left.
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