Body Facts

[satanboy]

How come you wake up at night to urinate but not to do anything else?

We’re often too embarrassed to inquire about the strange facts of our internal plumbing, but the answer is just plain biology. The sophisticated, intelligent neurons in your gut that control colon contractions, which push out waste, are also influenced by your body’s circadian rhythm, the internal clock that wakes you when it’s light out and makes you feel sleepy at night. So most people don’t have the urge to empty their colon in the middle of the night. On the other hand, the bladder, which acts a reservoir for the continuous flow of urine produced in the kidneys, can stretch only up to a certain volume before you gotta go. Normally, you can sleep six to eight hours without having to urinate, but certain medical conditions or drinking too much water before bed can wake you to use the bathroom at night.

Pankaj J. Pasricha, MD, director of neurogastroenterology at Johns Hopkins Center for Neurogastroenterology

 

[satanboy]

People are born with 300 bones in their infant bodies, but by the time they’re adults, they only have 206. Why? Because human bodies spend infancy and childhood putting the finishing touches on their skeletons, knitting together two or more bones into one. The only bone fully grown at birth is in the ear. Plus, over a period of about seven years, each bone in the body is slowly replaced until it is a new bone.

Bones make up about 14 percent of an average individual’s weight, yet they’re as strong as granite. A block of bone the size of a matchbox can support 9 tons — four times more weight than concrete.

dummies.com

 

[Jings]

Is menopause a medical condition?

 

[satanboy]

Humans can make do longer without food than sleep. Provided there is water, the average human could survive a month to two months without food depending on their body fat and other factors. Sleep deprived people, however, start experiencing radical personality and psychological changes after only a few sleepless days. The longest recorded time anyone has ever gone without sleep is 11 days, at the end of which the experimenter was awake, but stumbled over words, hallucinated and frequently forgot what he was doing.

oddstuffmagazine.com

 

[satanboy]

Is menopause a medical condition?

Menopause is a transition into a new phase of life. It begins when the menstrual cycle finishes. Menopause is not a health problem, and some experience it as a time of liberation.

google

 

[satanboy]

The most common blood type in the world is Type O.The rarest blood type, A-H or Bombay blood, due to the location of its discovery, has been found in less than hundred people since it was discovered.

Blood type refers to different molecules on the surface of red blood cells. A mismatch of these molecules between donor and recipient can trigger a fatal immune reaction after a blood transfusion, as the recipient’s body attacks the outsider blood.

 

[Jings]

Menopause is a transition into a new phase of life. It begins when the menstrual cycle finishes. Menopause is not a health problem, and some experience it as a time of liberation.

google

Some are lucky, otherwise for the rest it's one of the reasons for getting up in the middle of the night to urinate. Menopause can cause a number of health problems.

 

[satanboy]

Some are lucky, otherwise for the rest it's one of the reasons for getting up in the middle of the night to urinate. Menopause can cause a number of health problems.

I get up at least once a night to urinate. It doesn't help that I down 500ml of water or more just before going to sleep.

 

[Jings]

I get up at least once a night to urinate. It doesn't help that I down 500ml of water or more just before going to sleep.

Maybe it's decreased testosterone levels. Apparently that also causes nocturia.

 

[Smuggy]

How come you can spend an entire morning in town shopping, going to three different malls and buying stuff but the minute you stop in your driveway and while unloading your groceries, your bladder decides NOW is the time to go..???

 

[Jings]

How come you can spend an entire morning in town shopping, going to three different malls and buying stuff but the minute you stop in your driveway and while unloading your groceries, your bladder decides NOW is the time to go..???

Feels like it's got a mind of its own.

 

[biometrics]

Your eyes are in the middle of your head.

 

[Smuggy]

How come you can spend an entire morning in town shopping, going to three different malls and buying stuff but the minute you stop in your driveway and while unloading your groceries, your bladder decides NOW is the time to go..???

Feels like it's got a mind of its own.

As well as a GPS...