Check out our top ten medical facts about the human body we are quite certain there are some here you never heard of that will take you by surprise!

Human body medical facts!

human medical facts
Your amazing sense of smell!
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The human nose is quite amazing. Did you know that you have 6 million smell cells up your nose. These enable us to distinguish between 50 thousands smells.

human medical facts
Your body is a heat factory!
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How much heat do we produce. Each hour of our lives we produce enough heat energy to boil 4 liters or 8 pints of water. now that is what we call warm blooded.

human medical facts
Them bones them bones!
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Did you know. By density our bones are actually stronger than concrete. The large human bones in good condition can withstand a force of up to 8 tons in weight.

human medical facts
Hand in hand
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Your organs

When it comes to hands humans have more sensitivity than any other animal on the planet.  So whats makes our hands so special.  well, 600 pain receptors per square inch, 36 heat sensors per square inch, 75 pressure sensors per square inch and 9 feet of blood vessels per square inch!

human medical facts
Have a heart
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You might think that the strongest muscles in you body would be your arms or legs but in fact the heart is absolutely the strongest mescle in your body, In its lifetime it will beat over 2 billion times!

human medical facts
Just Breath
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Human lungs are full of capillaries (small blood vessels) in fact over half a million of them. Laid end to end they would reach from one side of the United States to the other!

human medical facts
An egg each month
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Females will bring 1 egg into cycle each month but did you know they keep 50,000 eggs in reserve!

human medical facts
I’ll get there first!
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How much? The average healthy male produces 1 million sperm per day.. yes per day. That means that each man produces enough sperm in 1 year to repopulate our planet twice over.

human medical facts
Is there a dentist in the house?
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This skull may look like something from Aliens but it is a perfect normal juvenile skull with the milk teeth still in place.

human medical facts
Olympic pools of saliva
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Saliva is crucial for digestion and we makes loads of the stuff. In you life will produce enough saliva to fill not 1 but 2 olympic size pools!


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