22 most incredible medical facts

The development of medicine, of course, has always been and is being given considerable attention, and yet it does not cease to be a less mysterious branch of science. And this, of course, greatly fuels interest in her. Esthet-portal.com. brings to your attention medical facts that can actually surprise, and perhaps even shock each of us. 

Amazing is nearby: interesting facts of medicine

1. The blood pressure in our body reaches such a force that it is enough for a "shot" at a distance of about 10 m.
2. By the age of 60, many people lose about 50% of their taste buds.
3. For 70 – For 80 years of life, a person produces at least 400 kg of red blood cells, and saliva is so much that it can fill 2–3 medium-sized pools.
4. During the same period, a person acquires about 950 km of hair.
5. Having collected all the bacteria that inhabit the human intestines, you can fill a whole coffee cup.
6. In the process of speech, a person uses 72 muscles.
7. A person's hearing is impaired if they systematically overeat.
8. It turns out that earlobes never stop growing throughout a person's life.
9. Language – the strongest muscle in our body.
10. Human eyes can distinguish 10 million shades of color.
    
11. The surface of our lungs is about 100 square meters. m
12. In 24 hours, the blood in our body overcomes 97 thousand km
13. Our liver weighs about 1.5 kg, it is considered the heaviest organ of the human body.
14. 10 trillion. – this is the total number of cells that make up the human body.
15. Nature is designed so that a person can only sneeze when his eyes are closed.
16. The occurrence of such a disease as prostatitis is possible only in humans and dogs.
17. It turns out that just 2 daily smiles can lower blood pressure.
18. Relatively recently, in most countries, a mandatory procedure for removing the appendix was distributed in order to prevent the development of appendicitis in the future. However, scientists have found that this is by no means a useless "detail"; our body. In particular, the immune system cannot do without this process, since it serves as a refuge for beneficial microorganisms. And if a person is sick (as a result of which the natural microflora dies), then it is the appendix that provides the necessary "reinforcement". Another thing is that the achievements of modern medicine contribute to the restoration of the intestinal flora through drugs. Therefore, such a – reinforcement – the function of the appendix is ​​actually of little significance.
19. The most common pathology in the world is caries. But it turns out that in weightlessness its development occurs at a faster pace than on Earth. Medicine explains this fact as follows: in weightlessness, the distribution of saliva in the mouth is worse and therefore it does not wash harmful bacteria from the teeth very well.
20. It turns out that the more intellectually developed a person is, the less likely he is to develop brain diseases. The fact is that the vigorous activity of this organ contributes to the production of tissue that compensates for the one that is affected by the disease.
21. The highest body temperature was recorded in a person who received heatstroke in July 1980. The temperature of 50-year-old American W. Jones reached 46.5 °; C. The patient survived, he had to spend about a month in the hospital.
22. In 1955, a son was born to Italian Carmelina Fedele. The baby weighed 10.2 kg. This is the largest newborn weight recorded in the history of perinatology.

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