Sunday, January 24, 2010

Amazing things the Human Body can Do


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1. Support itself. That is one of the most taken for granted things we do. Imagine jumping up and down, but instead of the strong leg bones such as the femur, you would have sticks. They would snap so easily! How the hell can our legs support over one hundred pounds everyday for so many years? That is sure something that has baffled me! I mean yes, of course bones can break, but imagine the pressure it has to be under to do that!

2. The Immune system is also pretty damn amazing. I mean, how the heck can we become IMMUNE to bad illnesses? Thats crazy! As a baby, that is our weakest point in life for our health, but as we grow older and older, we begin to create antibodies and then we become more immune to these illnesses. They say that some diseases are becoming super strong to be able to be not detected by drugs such as Tylenol and stuff, but I think we are competing also with our antibodies! It is a race!

3. This almost goes hand and hand with the immune system, our ability to remain healthy by flushing out all the bad stuff. I mean it in a vague way, as such as getting the bad out by any mean necessary. A common misconception is that our body heats up during a fever due to the illness, but it is in a indirect manner, as our body is doing it on purpose to kill the bacteria. We don't even have to try to be able to survive! It is also very cool how when people gorge themselves in alcohol, their bodies tell them, "Uh no way bro, I'm not letten that get in here!" We begin to unconsciously sweat, pee, and barf to get it out. So even when our brain is saying, "Woo lets get hammered!" Our body is saying "No bro!"

4. The ability to procreate. Self Explanatory! No details necessary!

5. Our senses are also pretty damn important. I wrote my whole 1500 word paper on them so I'll keep it short. They are how we view the entire world. How we decipher the world, and how we encode it in our brain. Without our senses, there is no way we could even life. (That was pretty much my thesis sentence!)

6. Our ability to change ourselves in a physical manner is a wonder also. I do not JUST mean long term like evolving, but also short term. Such as Ultimate Fighters beat their legs with bamboo sticks to make them more resilient, guitar players acquire calluses on their fingers when they are under stress of the guitar strings. Our bodies adapt to small things, and over time they adapt to bigger things. That is why I think we would silence all the non believers if we called it not Evolution, but adaptation!


The Human body is a wonderful and amazing thing!!

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