The Amazing Facts of Human Body System

By Wan Luan Lee

The Major Systems of The Human Body

Digestive system
Immune system
Cardiovascular system
Respiratory system
Skeletal system
Muscular system
Nervous system
Endocrine system
Excretory system
Integumentary system
Reproductive system

The Amazing Facts of Digestive System

Hydrochloric acid, the primary juice in our
stomachs, is capable of dissolving substances as
strong as metal.
The small intestine absorptive surface area is about
2,700 square feet- the size of the tennis court.
The stomach produces a new layer of mucous every
2 weeks to keep it from digesting itself.
Muscle contract in waves to move food down the
esophagus. Means we can eat food upside down.
The human microbiome is unique to each person
and the bacteria in it out number human body cells
3 to 1.

The Amazing Facts of Immune System

99.9% of bacteria in your body is good for you.
People who lack humor in their life tend to have a
weaker immune system.
The skin secretes antibacterial substances. These
substances explain why you dont wake up in the
morning with a large of mold growing on your skin.
Getting under 5 hours of sleep a night has been
shown to greatly depress immune function in your
body.
Disease symptoms are sometimes the result of your
immune system doing its job.

The Amazing Facts of Muscular System

Muscles make up about 40 % of total body
weight.
To take one step is using 200muscles.
Our tongue is the strongest muscle in our body
sine it has 8 muscles.
Smiling takes 17 muscles, while frowning
takes 43 muscles.
There are muscles in the root of your hair that
give you goose bumps.

The Amazing Facts of Cardiovascular System

Your heart can keep beating even if it is separated
from the body because it has its own electrical
impulse.
Your heart beats more when youre scared or exited .
An average heart pumps about 450 gallons of blood
every day.
The end of a relationship really can break your
heart condition is commonly known as broken heart
syndrome.
A womans heart typically beats faster than a mans.
The heart of an average man beats approximately 70
times/min & a woman is 78 times/min.

The Amazing Facts of Respiratory System

The right lung is slightly layer than the left.
Hairs in the nose help to clean the air we
breath.
The surface area of the lung is roughly the
same size as a tennis court.
The capillaries in the lungs would extend 1,600
kilometers if placed end to end.
The respiration system is made up of several
organs.

The Amazing Facts of Nervous System

There are about 13,500,000 nervous in the human
spinal chord.
The nervous system ca transmit signals at speed
of 100 meters (328 feet) per second.
The adult brain consists 100 billion nervous.
Each brain cell can hold as much information as
am encyclopedia value , more or less.
The spine includes approximately 220 individual
ligaments.

The Amazing Facts of Skeletal System

Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete.
Human and giraffes have the same number of bines
in their necks.
Gardening is said to be the healthiest exercise for
your bones.
There is only one bone that is not connected to the
rest of the others called the hyoid. It is a horse
shaped bone in the throat.
The weirdest disease of a human bone is the
disappearing human bone disease which in clinical
terms, massive osteolysis. After a bone fracture, the
bone is broken down to almost nothing.

The Amazing Facts of Endocrine system

The endocrine system has no ducts. Therefore, the hormones
it produces are released directly into the bloodstream. The
blood then carries it to the various parts.
The endocrine system is responsible for producing 30 distinct
hormones. All these hormones have very distinct jobs to do.
The endocrine is the secret behind your energy levels thanks
to the thyroid glands. The thyroid glands also help in
metabolism.
The hypothalamus is the one that makes you feel hunger and
thirst. It also helps in body temperature.
The human behavior is also controlled by the endocrine
system when it affects the nervous system.

The Amazing Facts of Excretory system

The human intestine is usually 27 feet long and
10 inches. (8.5 meters long).
An average person sheds from about 30000 to
40000 skin cells every minute.
The average person pees about 3000 times a year.
The kidneys receive signals to produce less urine
in an effort to preserve hydration when the
temperature is hot or there isn't much drinking
water available.
We have two kidneys, in which the left one is
always higher than the right one.

The Amazing Facts of Integumentary system

Every month you have a whole new layer of
skin.
You have 7 layers of flat, stacked cells.
Your eyelids have the thinnest skin.
Hair grows 1cm per month.
You will shed 40lbs of skin in a lifetime.
The skin is made up of several different
types of cells.
A special muscle causes goosebumps.

The Amazing Facts of Reproductive system

The reproductive system contains the largest and
smallest human cells. Males produce the smallest
human cell the sperm. A female's ovum, or egg, is
the largest human cell.
Some people are born with two uteruses.
A foreskin (prepuce) from circumcised babies takes
only 3 weeks to grow skin that can cover 3 basketball
courts. It can be used in treating burn patients.
Human testes can produce 10 million sperm cells
daily.
During pregnancy, uterus will expand up to 500
times its normal size.