Top 10 Things You Don’t Know About Yourself

You think you know yourself well? Surprise yourself with these ten facts about yourself that you probably don’t know. You’ll be shocked to find out that you know more about Mathematics than you do about yourself.

1. Feed Your Brain With Your Lunch

Although the brain is only two percent of your body’s total weight, it needs 20 percent of calories and oxgyen from your body. There are three primary cerebral arteries that pump oxygen in the body that keep your brain stocked with sufficient resources. A break or blockage in any of these arteries starves the cells of your brain that are needed for proper functioning. Once this happens, the functions controlled by a specific region in the brain will be impaired, eventually resulting in a stroke.

2. Ovaries Don’t Use All Eggs

If you are a woman and you have reached your late 40s or early 50s, your menstrual cycle will stop soon if it hasn’t already. The menstrual cycle manipulates the levels of hormones in your body. It no longer prepares the ova for insemination. As you grow older, your ovaries produce less estrogen, causing emotional and physical changes in your body. Your underdeveloped eggs can no longer release ova regularly.

While you produce only about 350 mature egg follicles in one month, you have as many as 34,000 underdeveloped egg follicles that eventually deteriorate. Your brain, on the other hand, stops controlling the release of ova once there is an absence of potential pregnancy.

3. The Sacrifice of Bones

Yes, your bones support your muscles and organs, but they are also in charge of regulating the levels of calcium in your body. You will find calcium and phosphorus in your bones.

Calcium is important in maintaining the functions of your nerves and muscles. Once calcium becomes short in supply, your bones break. If your bones break down, they keep doing so until sufficient extracellular concentration is achieved.

4. Cell Hair Doesn’t Just Filter

A majority of the cells in your body have cilia, which are hair-like organelles that help in the functioning of many parts of your body. Cilia help many functions from hearing to digesting food.

In the nose alone, these hair-like organelles drain mucus that comes from your nasal cavity. Mucus passes through the cilia first before it reaches your throat. If the weather is cold, the draining process is slowed down, resulting in a mucus backup that can cause snotty sleeves. If the nasal membranes become swollen, you may experience a stuffed schnozzle.

5. Laughing is Contagious

Maybe you already know that seeing someone yawn induces the same behavior in you. What you may not know is that laughter does the same thing.

Each time someone laughs, a social cue is expressed, making others laugh, too. The region in your brain associated with the movements of the face is stimulated every time you hear someone laugh. This is a form of mimicry that is important in social interaction. Other cues include crying and sneezing, in which you are given a chance to create a strong bond within a particular group.

6. The Four Colors of Skin

All skin appears creamy white without coloring. A blush or red tint is caused by near-surface blood vessels. Your skin produces sepia-toned melanin as a reaction to ultraviolet rays that appear black when acquired in large amounts. These hues are combined in different proportions to make the different skin colors for all races and peoples of the world.

7. You Keep a Corrosive Acid

You go to the airport and you will see that security measures are strictly implemented. Airport security confiscates any dangerous liquid from you even if you don’t have any bad intentions. No matter how strict airport security is, there is one dangerous liquid they can never confiscate from you. You don’t even know that you are, literally, hiding it in your gut.

The cells in your stomach release hydrochloric acid that is a corrosive compound used for the enhancement and treatment of metals in industrial establishments and settings. It is so corrosive that it can preserve steel. The mucous that serves as a lining on your stomach wall keeps the hydrochloric acid in your digestive system. This poisonous liquid breaks down everything you eat.

8. Why Youngsters Seem to Carry Emotional Baggage

You will experience a lot of hormone-fueled changes in your body. These changes are important for encouraging growth. They also prepare your body for reproduction. Haven’t you wondered why during adolescence everything in the world seemed emotionally tormenting and unpleasant?

Testosterone is a hormone that influences the growth of neurons found in your brain. It is these changes in your brain structure that create all the behavioral consequences you have to go through. The changing process is the reason why sometimes you seem to always make bad choices, and why you experience apathy and emotional awkwardness.

9. The Relationship of Body Position and Memory

Your memories about everything are stored in your senses. A sound or a scent may make you remember something that happened 37 years ago. In a study conducted by Cognition magazine, a certain position makes you remember a thing of the past. You can remember an episode from your children if your position is the same you had years ago when a significant event happened in your life.

10. Useless Part of Your Body

Wings are more useful than your wisdom tooth, so why do you need to go through the painful process of growing a wisdom tooth rather than growing wings to fly? A wisdom tooth is a useless feature simply because it doesn’t do anyone serious harm. Then again, it is something dentists can invest on.

A long, long time ago, a wisdom tooth was useful. It functioned as a third molar to chew and mash meat. Because of evolution, mouths became more structured. The structure of the jawbone changed. With this, a wisdom tooth is now nothing but an element that crowds your mouth.

These are ten facts about you that can be considered any of the following: a gross mystery, useless information or simply a beautiful fact.