Each hair on your head is replaced every 2 to 7 years
A hundred hairs fall out every day and new ones grow back in their place
And look at your fingernails – they’re completely new every six months or so
The lining of your stomach and intestines
gets pretty beat up — it’s constantly exposed to acid and bile
and so those cells get replaced every few days
Every few weeks, your outer layer of skin is completely renewed
Every four months you have a fresh army of red blood cells
A hundred million new cells are born every minute and a hundred million old cells are destroyed
It’s actually the breakdown products of these red blood cells that turn your bruises and urine yellow
Every 10 years, you’ve got a new skeleton
a special team of cells breaks down old bone
and another builds new bone
Every 15 years your muscles are refreshed
You might think you gain and lose fat cells when you gain and lose weight
but the actually just get bigger and smaller
Over the course of 25 years though, most of them turn over
But there are a few things that stick around for your entire life
About half of your heart stays with you from birth to death because those cells
are replaced very slowly
Certain parts of your brain add a few new neurons over the course of your life
but the vast majority of your neurons developed before you were born
It’s the connections between those neurons — the circuits that store memories —
that are constantly changing
And there’s one more part of you that lasts your whole life (your eyes)
Months before you were born,
little cluster of cells stretched and filled themselves with transparent protein
As you grew, even after birth, more and more fibers were added, but that center endured
This is your lens the window through which you are watching this video right now
and its core has remained the same since the moment you first opened your eyes
~ Adam Cole and Ryan Kellman, excerpts from Your Body’s Real Age
Notes:
- Photo: Bang Sang Hyeok #305 (via Precious Things)
- Inspired by Albert Einstein’s quote: “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
- Related Posts: Miracle. All of it.
Wow. Wow. Really and truly – a miracle – all of it.
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It is!
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Well if all that replacement is going on daily, how come I’m getting old ha 🤑
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You look AMAZING!
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I don’t know what’s more incredible…the fact that all this is going on, as it should, day after day, our bodies working as they were meant to, or the fact that we have the temerity to take these magnificent ‘machines’ for granted even for a moment….
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Wow, so true…AGREE.
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The eyes have it. 💘
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They do!
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The business about the heart helps explain how it’s connected to memory. Great book “The Heart’s Code” by Paul Pearsall.
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I need to check out that book Sandy. Off to Amazon.
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Often we look outwards for wonder, but the human body or any living organism is really incredible.
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So true.
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I didn’t know that about the eyes!
Wow.
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Amazing! Especially the skeleton thing – wow! ❤
Diana xo
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Isn’t it though!
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Reblogged this on It Is What It Is and commented:
All a miracle indeed …. wonder of life!
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ah, because your eyes lead to your heart and soul, and the brain is always running along, trying to catch up and catch a glimpse –
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Ah, no doubt the brain is galloping along in all directions. 😃
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Wow! I just wish some of the slower cells could work a bit faster 🙂
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Me too!
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I’m waiting for my joints to be renewed!
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Soon. Coming soon!
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LOL! I won’t hold my breath! 😉
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You forgot to mention the older you get the replacement parts are rebuilt, sagging skin, joints that are not factory new, skin that is thinner, and eyes that need help. However other than turning grey (which is controlled by Nice N Easy) the hair is still full and thick. :o)
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Well that’s something. 😀
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Never ending miracle.
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I see no logical argument for chance in all of that complexity.
“The human heart is not like a valentine heart. It has a piece of it missing. That piece was ripped from all hearts at Calvary. God saw our human heart so important that He kept that piece for us with Him from all eternity. And we will receive that piece when we return to Him.” – Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
-Alan
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Smiling. I love your confidence Alan.
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Reblogged this on Bridgit's Fire.
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… And that’s just what we know so far. Imagine what is still to be known about this amazing container of ours 😎
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So true…
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Very informative article this was! I liked your approach. I also have a similar type of post . here- https://thefashiondesert.wordpress.com/2017/01/04/hair-fall-rescue-part-1
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God day!
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