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Here you will find all you need to know about natural ways to heal yourself and your loved ones…

• A Z OF AILMENTS The root causes, natural treatments and prevention.
• A-Z OF NATURAL FOODS AND REMEDIES To treat and prevent disease.
• A-Z OF NUTRIENTS Required for optimum health.
• A-Z OF HAZARDS TO HEALTH In everyday life.

Amazing numbers

It is difficult to comprehend the enormous numbers involved in the construction and maintenance of the human body. The following shows the complexity of an average sized adult.

• The human body consists of 300 bones at birth many of which fuse to become 206 as an adult plus 642 muscles, 900 ligaments and 4000 tendons.
• The skin, spread out, would cover 16 square feet (1.5m²) and there are approximately 250,000 hairs on the head.
• There are 1,500,000 sweat glands which if spread out on one surface, would occupy over 10,000 square feet (929m²).
• The maximum sweat rates of an adult can be up to 4 litres per hour or 14 litres per day.
• There are 550 named arteries and 100,000 miles of blood vessels which could encircle the circumference of the earth 4 times.
• In 70 years, the heart beats 2,500,000,000 times and pumps 500,000 tons of blood around the body.
• There are 30,000,000 white corpuscles and 180,000,000,000,000 red corpuscles in the blood.
• The lungs are composed of 700,000,000 honeycomb like cells, all of which are used in breathing; this is equal to a flat surface of 2,000 square feet.
• The average adult at rest inhales and exhales seven or eight litres (about a quarter of a cubic foot) of air per minute which totals approximately11,000 litres of air (388 cubic feet) per day.
• The air inhaled is approximately 20% oxygen and air exhaled is approximately 15% oxygen, so about 5% of the volume of air is consumed in each breath and converted to carbon dioxide. A human being uses about 550 litres of pure oxygen (19 cubic feet) per day. Physical activity increases this number.
• Altogether 133 billion cubic feet of oxygen is required per day for the seven billion humans, currently alive on earth, to breathe
• The human brain uses about 200 kilocalories of energy per day which is equivalent to the amount of power a 10 watt light bulb uses.
• The nervous system, controlled by the brain, has 3,000,000,000,000 nerve cells, 9,200,000,000 of which are in the cortex (outer layer) of the brain alone.
• Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 250 miles per hour which means a nerve impulse can travel six feet from the head to the toe within a hundredth of a second.
• The human body can consist of anything between 65% and 90% water and the total amount is dependent on body mass. Infants’ bodies contain up to 75% water. The adult average is between 12 and 18 gallons of water.
• Almost three pints of saliva are swallowed every day.
• The stomach generates daily from five to 10 quarts of gastric juice, which digests food and destroys germs; this is equal to two gallons daily.
• The entire human intestine is 10 feet (3.04 m) longer than the body.
• The average small intestine is approximately 23 feet (7 m) long.
• The average large intestine is approximately five feet (1.5 m) long.
• The human body expels methane gas on average 14 to 23 times per day totalling about two pints in volume mostly through burping.
• Water is the most abundant chemical compound in living human cells, accounting for 65 to 90% of each cell.
• The entire body is also made from the following elements: oxygen (65%), carbon (18%), hydrogen (10%), nitrogen (3%), calcium (1.5%), phosphorus (1.2%), potassium (0.2%), sulphur (0.2%), chlorine (0.2%), sodium (0.1%) plus traces of each of the following: cobalt, copper, fluorine, iodine, iron, manganese, molybdenum, selenium and zinc and even smaller amounts of aluminium, arsenic, bromine, lead, lithium, silica, strontium, vanadium and many others.
• There are100,000,000,000,000 or 100 trillion cells in the human body but only one in 10 is human. Of these 90% are bacteria and fungi microbes and often viruses too. That is more than there are stars in the galaxy.
• Every day the body generates 300 billion cells to replace those that die.
• It take one month for the liver to replace itself and every seven years the entire body has replaced itself.
• Each eye is comprised of 130 million photo receptor cells
• Each cell in the human body contains 23 pairs (46 in total) of chromosomes. The largest, chromosome 1, contains about 8000 genes. The smallest, chromosome 21, contains about 300 genes. (Chromosome 22 should be the smallest, but the scientists made a mistake when they first numbered them)
• There are approximately 23,000 genes which make up only 3% of the DNA.
• For every human gene in the human body there are 360 microbial genes.
• There are two metres of DNA in the nucleus of every cell.
• One gram of DNA can hold about two petabytes of data which is the equivalent of about three million CDs.
• Using the same amount of space, DNA can store 140,000 times more data than ferric oxide molecules, which store information on computer hard drives.
• A human possesses enough DNA, stretched out in a line, to reach from here to the sun and back more than 300 times which is approximately 6000 million miles of DNA strands in the entire body.
• Cells are made of molecules. Molecules are made of atoms. There are 118 different types of atoms known of so far.
• There are100,000,000,000,000 or 100 trillion atoms in an average human cell.
• There are approximately 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (seven billion billion billion) atoms in one average sized human body.
• It is estimated that each cell in the human body contains about 100 times as many atoms as there are stars in the Milky Way. The Milky Way has 200 Billion stars.

“Nature cures not the physician…“ Hippocrates 460 BC

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