After my last two years of medical issues and treatments, I consider myself something of an expert on my own body. I thought I knew all I needed to know but once again I was mistaken. Here are a few really interesting tidbits that will blow your mind. Even you former and current medical professionals, you know who you are. Here we go . . .

• On average there are approximately 75,000,000,000,000 (trillion) cells in the human body.

• There are ten times as many bacteria cells living in your gut (750 trillion).

• Sixty percent of the solids in your poo are made up of bacteria from your gut.

• There are about 100 billion nerve cells in the adult human brain, but 10 times as many support cells to look after them.

• Adults lose on average, about 100,000 nerve cells from their brain every day. Over the course of a lifetime this adds up to losing about 7% of the brain.

• Your heart beats approximately 100,000 times a day without rest for an entire lifetime – that’s more than 2.5 billion beats in your life.

• Laid end to end, a child’s blood vessels would stretch for over 60,000 miles: and adults for 100,000 miles – that’s four times around the Equator.

• The blood of an adult male contains more than 25 trillion cells.

• An average red blood cell lives for only 120 days. During this time, it will travel 300 miles on its journey round and round the body.

• The average male produces 50,000 sperm per minute – that’s 72 million per day. A single male ejaculation contains 200 million sperm – theoretically enough to generate a combined population of Britain, France, and Germany.

• Each sperm leaving the penis travels at 8000 body lengths per second, equivalent to a human swimming at 34,000 miles per hour.

• Over the course of three years almost every cell in your body will have been replaced by new ones, making you literally a different person to who you were two years ago.

• One square inch of human skin has 19 million cells, 60 hairs, 90 oil glands, 19 feet of blood vessels, and 625 sweat glands.

• Fingernails grow twice to four times as fast as toenails and the nail on the middle finger grows the fastest.

• If you lose a toenail, it will take approximately six months to grow back completely.

I actually love all of these bizarre facts that are available about the human body. I’m just as glad that I found out late in life about all this nonsense because it would have freaked me out a bit in my younger years. I’m just so happy that I get to share it with all of you and if you’re really lucky you might be able to win a few Trivia Night Contests at your local tavern. Have one for me while you’re there.

LOVE YOUR BODY & OTHERS IF NECESSARY