The brain receives 20% of the body’s oxygen and 25% of total body glucose utilization, despite it accounting for only 2% of a person’s weight (about 1.4 kilograms).
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Your heart will pump about 212 million liters in its lifetime.
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Women have about four times as many foot problems as men; lifelong patterns of wearing high heels often are the culprit.
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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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An average heart beats 100,000 times a day, pumping some 2,000 gallons of blood through its chambers. Over a 70-year life span, that adds up to more than 2.5 billion heartbeats.
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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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After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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