astounding facts about the human body

The human gut contains about 1kg (2.2 lbs) of bacteria. In fact, there are more bacteria growing in and on the body than there are human cells.

In 24 hours, the blood in the body travels a total of 12,000 miles that s four times the width of North America.

The length of your foot is the same as that of your forearm between your wrist and the inside of your elbow.

If you blink one eye you move over 200 muscles.

Humans have more facial muscles than any other animal on earth 22 on each side of the face.

Before their first birthday, average babies will have dribbled 255 pints of saliva. By the time they re two years old, they will have crawled 93 miles.

The human hand contains three main nerves, two major arteries and 27 different bones more of the body is devoted to controlling the hands than any other part of the body.

In the average lifetime, we spend five years eating and we consume around 7,000 times our own weight in food.

When we go to sleep and enter REM (Rapid Eye Movement),our bodies become completely paralysed as areas of the brain that control movement are de activated. It is this that stops us falling out of bed.

By the time a woman has reached her 60s, she will have released around 450 baby making eggs