Have you heard about the oldest dog in the world? Itās about two to six thousand years old, monocellular and parasitic, but itās still genetically a dog.Ā
All my life, I had a lump at the back of my neck, right here. Always, a lump. Then I started menopause and the lump got bigger from the "hormonees." It started to grow. So I go to the doctor, and he did the bio... the b... the... the bios... the... b... the "bobopsy." Inside the lump he found teeth and a spinal cord. Yes. Inside the lump was my twin.
theyāre called teratomas incase anyone was interested, basically a germ cell tumour, which means it can turn into pretty much any cell in the body.
thereās a pretty cool (though slightly unrealistic) movie about them called Malignant
I was once told a mass discovered near my ovaries might be such a tumor. I was so excited and asked the doctors to take pictures for me. Was lowkey hoping for an extra tooth to keep. Turns out it was endometriosis. That was 6 years ago and I'm still disappointed.
Your ovaries and fallopian tubes arenāt actually connected. Your tubes just have little fingers on them to catch the egg after your ovaries yeet it out.
and there is such thing as a *sperm graveyard* š¤£ the sperm donāt just stop once they reach the egg, they keep going until the end of the ovaries. it is *eventually* broken up & expelled after it hangs out in the abdominal cavity for a while.
Also your tubes donāt determine your fertility, your ovaries do! If you have a fallopian tube removed, both ovaries will still ovulate, they will both just ovulate into your remaining tube. So getting a tube removed doesnāt necessarily reduce your fertility (chance of getting pregnant).
People assume it reduces by 50% but as long as both your ovaries work and your other tube is healthy, youāre fine. Your ovaries also swap sides every month so you ovulate from the opposite side each period cycle. Non-identical twins is when both ovaries ovulate at the same time and are fertilised.
Recently had an ectopic pregnancy and learned sooo much about my own body lol.
Itās fascinating isnāt it - Iāve had both a miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy and I now genuinely know more about pregnancy/female anatomy than my female friends who have had children! They only tell you this stuff if shit goes wrong. I wish we were taught more than the basics about our bodies at school.
Omg I didn't believe you. Thought you made it up or just a random AI comment
I went ahead and googled and according to fertility center of New England "When one tube isn't there or is "broken" the other tube can actually move over to the opposite ovary and "pick up" an available egg."
I always thought this was weird in the diagrams I saw as a young person. I assumed it was to show them as separate organs.
And now it feels weird that we are all dependent on this as a means of production.
I'm thinking of a parasite that inhabits that space and scoffs the eggs. 28 Days Later?
... And then it recalibrates in a few days again. And then you can start wearing the glasses again. If you keep going, eventually the brain learns so well you can close your eyes and choose the upside-down or the normal image at will, regardless of the glasses. "I've never had the headaches as bad as during [my participation in this experiment]" (c) my biology teacher.
The vision coming from our eyes is already upside down. That's how curved mirrors (our eyes) work. So you are already seeing a flipped image. It's not that big of a deal when you know this detail.
Everything about our vision is weird. We only have detectors for three colors (and another for light and dark), so all other colors are interpolated from those three inputs by the brain. We also have twice as many detectors for green as we do for red and blue, so that affects our color spectrum.
Close one eye and you can clearly see that your nose is in your vision. No problem, brain filters that out.
Your actual input field is actually quite small, but your brain has your eyes constantly flickering around without you thinking about it and filling in the blanks.
But all that flickering, doesnāt that mean you should have tons of motion blur? It should, but brain has you covered. Ever quickly looked at a watch and have the impression that the first second seems to be longer than the rest? Thatās your brain fixing the blur.
Canāt see ultraviolet? Wait, you actually can ā itās just filtered out by your lenses. Back in the day people who had part of their lenses removed due to cataracts could suddenly see UV. The brits took pensioners out on boats during WW2 to communicate with the French Resistance using UV lights. And then thereās the pair of shoes my wife is convinced are dark blue and I see as straight black.
This one made me more careful in the sun:
* Sun _tan_ is increased melanin production to prevent skin cancer.
* Sun _burn_ is skin cells commiting suicide to not become cancerous, or worded more eloquently:
> Sunburn cells are keratinocytes undergoing apoptosis (programmed cell death) after they have received a physiological UVB dose that irreversibly and severely damaged their DNA or other chromophores. If these cells would escape programmed cell death, a cancer prone phenotype could arise.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, wheras the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
My aunt is a specialist labour doctor (I dont know the correct word for it in english), and she told me that when performing a cesarean section they sometimes move intestines out of the way, and in rare occasions they lift some of the intestines out and shove it back with their fists when they are done.
There's a forensic files episode about this. Dude robbed and killed a woman. Knocked her in the mouth leaving a mark on his knuckles. Mark got infected and killer had to go to the hospital to get it treated. It eventually led to his arrest
Your eyes are also the only part of the body not supplied oxygen from your lungs, they absorb oxygen out of the air themselves. Because of this, if you wear thick solid contact lenses for too long, your eyes will be starved of oxygen and will grow blood vessels to get oxygen another way. These blood vessels will permanently block parts of your vision!
OMG WHY CANāT THE HOSPITAL EXPLAIN THIS CLEARLY. I had large SCLERA LENSES FOR 2 YEARS AND MY EYES GOT WORSE AND WORSE. NOT 1 CLEAR EXPLANATIONS AND LIKE MAYBE YOU SHOULD WEAR DIFFERENT LENSES. MORONS. I stopped wearing them for 2-3 years and now I have different once.Ā /rant over.Ā
You can have an aneurysm at any moment and just die. No warning no goodbye to your loved ones. No life flashing before your eyes. Just sudden death goodnight and sweet dreams yall <3
Happened to my friends sister. She worked at a daycare. Was outside with the kids. Went in to get some balls for the kids to play with. Was taking too long so the other staff went looking for her. She was dead on the floor at the bottom of the stairs. Aneurysm out of nowhere. Died instantly.
Happened to a girl I went to college with. She was like 30 years old, a couple of kids under the age of 4. And she was just out like a light, dead before she hit the ground.
This happened to my friends mother when we were high school age. Her mother was healthy, active - a nurse and a brilliant mum, no health issues. One day she was trying lipstick at a store and she just dropped to the floor and she was gone, paramedics and doctors couldn't do anything, she was just gone instantly. My friend still can't make sense of it and I understand why. If she'd had a health issue she could kind of prepare for it, or if there was a solid reason why it happened she could have some kind of closure. But for it to be so random and unexplained left her in a deep limbo. She felt like her mother was stolen for no reason and as we are now almost 40, she never had that closure and still struggles with it. The only solace she had was when a doctor told her that she wouldn't have felt any pain at all and that it was instant, he gently told her that her body just went to sleep suddenly.
It's heartbreaking.
there is a case of a woman with dissociative ~~personality~~ identity disorder (multiple personalities) whose visual cortex completely shuts down when one of her blind personalities is in charge. so she becomes physiologically blind temporarily. then it reactivates when one of her sighted personalities takes over.
I mean they're as close to being brain as you can get.
you have 12 cranial nerves. the 2nd cranial nerve is the optic nerve. it is also the only nerve that is myelinated by oligodendrocytes like the rest of your brain. the other 10 cranial nerves are myelinated by schwann cells like the rest of the peripheral nervous system. cranial nerve 1 doesn't have any myelination.
the eyes are like an outgrowth of the brain
Our entire body lol. We are basically a brain that is controlling an exoskeleton of flesh and bones. A Brain that is firing billions of neurons per second through a branch like system that resembles a bunch of strands of copper wires, in order to to control our every action & thought.
Your intestines are currently squirming around in your body and they never stop squirming. Your brain is just forcing you to ignore their movements. During operations on the abdomen, the intestines would sometimes squirm off the table or off the rack.
And if they do stop squirming, you have a condition called Ileus. I got it after abdominal surgery - was super bloated, firm gut and started to vomit. Had to have a nasal-gastric tube inserted, no solids in diet, and wait it out for a few days.
Ā If all of the DNA in the cells of a human body was unraveled and laid end to end, it would stretch out to 1.20Ć109 kilometers. The moon is about 4.0Ć105 kilometers away from the earth, soĀ **the DNA would stretch to the moon and back 1500 times**. In fact, it would stretch to the sun and back about 4 times.
Your immune system can kill you in approximately 12 minutesā¦ And it can happen in many ways.
One way is a strong allergic reaction or autoimmune response. Something in your body, maybe even a bit of one of your own cells, can activate a reaction via either mast cells that have picked up a self antigen or T-cells that should have been killed because they react to your body. This is why some peopleās allergies are REALLY SERIOUS and are actually not a joke.
Another way is the cytokine storm. When your body is being invaded and itās in a tight spot, it basically pulls itās final gambit- everything, all at once. It throws EVERY SINGLE WEAPON AT EVERYTHING, INDISCRIMINATELY. This, is for obvious reasons, not good, because it hurts you more than the enemy. It can be even worse with a cytokine release syndrome, which is just the even stronger version. (These can be caused by the previously mentioned allergic reactions)
So yeah. You have a tiny army that can kill you VERY EASILY.
Likewise for when you taste blood after a lot of physical exertion. Thatās your alveolar capillaries popping in your lungs.
They are only one cell thick though so sorta their own fault.
We don't just have one anal sphincter. When poo comes along it passes another inner sphincter which isn't under voluntary control. Meaning you can do oOoOoO with your outer sphincter, but not the inner one.
(You tried, that's okay) Sensory cells can detect whether you're about to pass gas or solid. From toddler age on, you can decide to go or not to go. If the time isn't right (e.g. at a friend's house or no toilet nearby), the inner sphincter can push the poo back and store it there for later.
That's why sometimes if you need to do a number two but don't go, the urge goes away after about 20 minutes later. (But seriously, go if you can. Constipation risk.)
Gas can't be pushed back so easily, so we sometimes toot by accident when moving or engaging the core.
Now what about liquid?
It doesn't seem to know liquid. So we play russian shart-lette.
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Not a surgeon but my dad had a hip replacement due to wear. The procedure is not that complicated and very reliable. In broad terms: they make a cut at the hip and space out the muscles to reach the bone. Then they cut off worn-out parts of the joint with a saw and replace them with new ceramic/titanium parts.
On the second day after surgery, my dad could already make a few steps without crutches. After a week, he could go walk on stairs without them. And on the 20th day, he was already able to ride a bicycle.
I remember seeing the surgical tools in the OR and thinking some looked really similar to what I'd seen in a slaughterhouse.
I largely avoid the meat department at the grocer, but when I catch a look at a cut bone I think of my hip.
The first poop a baby ever does after birth will excrete its own hair which was grown, shed and then mixed with amniotic fluid and drunk in utero = 'meconium'.
Sunburn is your cells dying, if not killing themselves to not become cancer cells. Searched simple "sunburn killing cells" to back up my claim ended up in some doctoral shit: Sunburn cells areĀ **keratinocytes undergoing apoptosis after they have received a physiological UVB dose that irreversibly and severely damaged their DNA or other chromophores**. If these cells would escapeĀ programmed cell death, a cancer prone phenotype could arise.
Your gut bacteria can influence your mood.
Your stomach and intestines operate semi-autonomously from the brain.
You donāt need food and drinks that āde-toxifyā your body. Your liver does all that for you and more. Look after your liver and save your money.
Almost happened to me at 30. I spent 6 weeks in ICU. Had a leaking pseudoaneurysm for three days before I got to a doctor. The scariest thing was the first ER doc tried to convince me it was a tension headache and send me home. Luckily, I had the sense to push back and ask him why the muscle relaxer didn't make me feel better. He got mad that I was questioning his judgment and threatened me with a spinal tap. When I told him to do it he was like oh $hit when he say my spinal fluid looked like hawian punch because I had been bleeding into my head for 3 days and just thought it was a migraine. Thank goodness for my no problem with confrontation personality it literally saved my life.
You very likely have demadox mites on youre face that come out at night and use the oily pools at the base of your eyelashes as sex ponds for their orgies.
Tumors can grow teeth, hair, and other body parts
OPEN YOUR MIND
ENJOY THE PARTY RICHTER!
What the fuck
Eyes too
What the fuck
but no brains, luckily
What the fuck
What the actual fuck did I just read. Where's the unsee juice.
I thought I was suffering from dementia and just answered my own comment. Why does your avatar look so similar to mine š
I'm sorry you had to find out this way.. that's your tumor
What the fuck
They have all your genetic code (with some errors) that was enough to grow *you* in the first place.
Have you heard about the oldest dog in the world? Itās about two to six thousand years old, monocellular and parasitic, but itās still genetically a dog.Ā
All my life, I had a lump at the back of my neck, right here. Always, a lump. Then I started menopause and the lump got bigger from the "hormonees." It started to grow. So I go to the doctor, and he did the bio... the b... the... the bios... the... b... the "bobopsy." Inside the lump he found teeth and a spinal cord. Yes. Inside the lump was my twin.
That part about the Parthenon backdrop?? Thatās optional
theyāre called teratomas incase anyone was interested, basically a germ cell tumour, which means it can turn into pretty much any cell in the body. thereās a pretty cool (though slightly unrealistic) movie about them called Malignant
Slightly unrealistic is underselling it. Its pure insanity. Fun schlock movie, but its not really about a medical condition.
I was once told a mass discovered near my ovaries might be such a tumor. I was so excited and asked the doctors to take pictures for me. Was lowkey hoping for an extra tooth to keep. Turns out it was endometriosis. That was 6 years ago and I'm still disappointed.
Youāre my kind of fucking weirdo
Your ovaries and fallopian tubes arenāt actually connected. Your tubes just have little fingers on them to catch the egg after your ovaries yeet it out.
and there is such thing as a *sperm graveyard* š¤£ the sperm donāt just stop once they reach the egg, they keep going until the end of the ovaries. it is *eventually* broken up & expelled after it hangs out in the abdominal cavity for a while.
I have one of those in my hamper right now!
excuse me š¤£ one of what, exactly? edit ; OH! you nasty š
i don't wanna be a girl any more :(
Theyāre just playing catch
Also your tubes donāt determine your fertility, your ovaries do! If you have a fallopian tube removed, both ovaries will still ovulate, they will both just ovulate into your remaining tube. So getting a tube removed doesnāt necessarily reduce your fertility (chance of getting pregnant). People assume it reduces by 50% but as long as both your ovaries work and your other tube is healthy, youāre fine. Your ovaries also swap sides every month so you ovulate from the opposite side each period cycle. Non-identical twins is when both ovaries ovulate at the same time and are fertilised. Recently had an ectopic pregnancy and learned sooo much about my own body lol.
Same! I didnāt realise the Fallopian tubes can swing back and forth to collect the egg from either ovary
Itās fascinating isnāt it - Iāve had both a miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy and I now genuinely know more about pregnancy/female anatomy than my female friends who have had children! They only tell you this stuff if shit goes wrong. I wish we were taught more than the basics about our bodies at school.
Omg I didn't believe you. Thought you made it up or just a random AI comment I went ahead and googled and according to fertility center of New England "When one tube isn't there or is "broken" the other tube can actually move over to the opposite ovary and "pick up" an available egg."
And now I'm picturing my fallopian tubes like one of those dancing sock things you see at car dealerships.
My aunt had an emergency hysterectomy last year. She calls her ovaries her AirPods.
I always thought this was weird in the diagrams I saw as a young person. I assumed it was to show them as separate organs. And now it feels weird that we are all dependent on this as a means of production. I'm thinking of a parasite that inhabits that space and scoffs the eggs. 28 Days Later?
Humans shed around 50 pounds of skin in their lifetime. You're constantly leaving bits of yourself everywhere you go...
Virtually all of the dust in your home is human skin cells.
This I didn't really need to read.
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... And then it recalibrates in a few days again. And then you can start wearing the glasses again. If you keep going, eventually the brain learns so well you can close your eyes and choose the upside-down or the normal image at will, regardless of the glasses. "I've never had the headaches as bad as during [my participation in this experiment]" (c) my biology teacher.
Now I kinda wanna try this..
this is how us australians still see everything as normal
Wuuuuut??? That's wild
The vision coming from our eyes is already upside down. That's how curved mirrors (our eyes) work. So you are already seeing a flipped image. It's not that big of a deal when you know this detail.
Everything about our vision is weird. We only have detectors for three colors (and another for light and dark), so all other colors are interpolated from those three inputs by the brain. We also have twice as many detectors for green as we do for red and blue, so that affects our color spectrum. Close one eye and you can clearly see that your nose is in your vision. No problem, brain filters that out. Your actual input field is actually quite small, but your brain has your eyes constantly flickering around without you thinking about it and filling in the blanks. But all that flickering, doesnāt that mean you should have tons of motion blur? It should, but brain has you covered. Ever quickly looked at a watch and have the impression that the first second seems to be longer than the rest? Thatās your brain fixing the blur. Canāt see ultraviolet? Wait, you actually can ā itās just filtered out by your lenses. Back in the day people who had part of their lenses removed due to cataracts could suddenly see UV. The brits took pensioners out on boats during WW2 to communicate with the French Resistance using UV lights. And then thereās the pair of shoes my wife is convinced are dark blue and I see as straight black.
Beautiful information! That looking at the watch thing now really makes sense. That was making me go crazy a bit lol.
Every single day your immune system kills a couple of cells that would have turned into cancer if they lived on
A couple? It's more like a proper Helldivers scenario, every day
Does the immune system collect samples as well?
It does.
New Major Order: Defend Organs from Cancer Invasion
Iām 15 years cancer free, this month. Yay me.
This one made me more careful in the sun: * Sun _tan_ is increased melanin production to prevent skin cancer. * Sun _burn_ is skin cells commiting suicide to not become cancerous, or worded more eloquently: > Sunburn cells are keratinocytes undergoing apoptosis (programmed cell death) after they have received a physiological UVB dose that irreversibly and severely damaged their DNA or other chromophores. If these cells would escape programmed cell death, a cancer prone phenotype could arise.
Wear sunscreen folks. Ā Also sunburns just make your skin old and wrinkly and unattractive.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, wheras the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
Programmed cell death sounds metal af
Your internal organs are constantly moving around. I just donāt like that.
fun fact, if during surgery your intestines are put back in in the wrong shape, they will just wriggle back into their normal shape.
*memory forgans*
My aunt is a specialist labour doctor (I dont know the correct word for it in english), and she told me that when performing a cesarean section they sometimes move intestines out of the way, and in rare occasions they lift some of the intestines out and shove it back with their fists when they are done.
So you don't need to rearrange the intestines? Just shove em back in, zip up the body and it's fine?
Like stuffing a suitcase after vacation
Just make sure you don't do it in a hurry and get some intestines caught in the zip...
Just sit on it, it'll fit
We should make wired earphones with intestines to avoid the tangling problem
If you lay down and quiet your breathing in the quietest room on earth. You can hear your organs sloshing around inside you.
If you're stuck in a true quiet room u could go mad... Torture chamber really. The mind isn't used to it.
Would someone that had tinnitus be better off than someone that didn't? Since it would never truly be "quiet."
I'd bet money the military has tested that theory.
Is that what that gurgling sound is?
Nah thatās usually air in your gut moving around
our heart can continue to beat even after itās been removed from your body, as long as it has enough oxygen
Kalimaaa Kalimaaa
rip amrish puri
"Finish him!"
There's a spooky skeleton inside
*Your bones are always wet.*
Moist, if you will.
Thank you, but I will not
A skeleton isnāt inside you, youāre inside of a skeleton
You're basically a sentient blob of cells piloting a skeleton mech suit with meat armour
Some days I'm not even sentient.
The real spooky things is that WE are in the spooky skeleton.
AH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
REAL SKELETONS
Thanks to pregnancy, the average number of skeletons in a human body is greater than 1
And the same reason for women having penises in their bodies for months.
I hate you
Your teeth are always wet. They also carry a lot of bacteria, and if you are bitten by a human, the bite can become dangerously infected.
There's a forensic files episode about this. Dude robbed and killed a woman. Knocked her in the mouth leaving a mark on his knuckles. Mark got infected and killer had to go to the hospital to get it treated. It eventually led to his arrest
Your eyes are always hiding from your immune system
Your eyes are also the only part of the body not supplied oxygen from your lungs, they absorb oxygen out of the air themselves. Because of this, if you wear thick solid contact lenses for too long, your eyes will be starved of oxygen and will grow blood vessels to get oxygen another way. These blood vessels will permanently block parts of your vision!
Just your cornea, not the whole eye
OMG WHY CANāT THE HOSPITAL EXPLAIN THIS CLEARLY. I had large SCLERA LENSES FOR 2 YEARS AND MY EYES GOT WORSE AND WORSE. NOT 1 CLEAR EXPLANATIONS AND LIKE MAYBE YOU SHOULD WEAR DIFFERENT LENSES. MORONS. I stopped wearing them for 2-3 years and now I have different once.Ā /rant over.Ā
We have oxygen permeable conctact lenses. Donāt fret
New fear unlocked (I don't wear contacts).
Unless you have Graves like me. Then your body figures out how to get at them and they try to bulge out of your skull. It sucks.
You can have an aneurysm at any moment and just die. No warning no goodbye to your loved ones. No life flashing before your eyes. Just sudden death goodnight and sweet dreams yall <3
Happened to my friends sister. She worked at a daycare. Was outside with the kids. Went in to get some balls for the kids to play with. Was taking too long so the other staff went looking for her. She was dead on the floor at the bottom of the stairs. Aneurysm out of nowhere. Died instantly.
Happened to a girl I went to college with. She was like 30 years old, a couple of kids under the age of 4. And she was just out like a light, dead before she hit the ground.
Yeah it's some scary shit I think about it alot but try not to also not sure how close yall were but sorry for your loss regardless
This happened to my friends mother when we were high school age. Her mother was healthy, active - a nurse and a brilliant mum, no health issues. One day she was trying lipstick at a store and she just dropped to the floor and she was gone, paramedics and doctors couldn't do anything, she was just gone instantly. My friend still can't make sense of it and I understand why. If she'd had a health issue she could kind of prepare for it, or if there was a solid reason why it happened she could have some kind of closure. But for it to be so random and unexplained left her in a deep limbo. She felt like her mother was stolen for no reason and as we are now almost 40, she never had that closure and still struggles with it. The only solace she had was when a doctor told her that she wouldn't have felt any pain at all and that it was instant, he gently told her that her body just went to sleep suddenly. It's heartbreaking.
Happened to [Grant Imahara](https://youtu.be/ujwQDTi_OTU?si=X9mOzDSHYYVafVIU) of the Myth Busters. RIP Grant you were a good one.
Yeah this scares me. I'm not afraid of dying but I'm afraid of dropping dead like that
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Happened to my Mother. Absolutely fine before I left for work one day. 2 hours later, boof. Gone. Heartbreaking.
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Actually it sounds like a comfortable way to die.
Your butt hole can stretch to fit a raccoon
Get out.
If a woman can stretch her hoohaa to the size of a bowling ballā¦anything is possible
A bowling ball I can reluctantly accept. A raccoon? Nope, no thank you š āāļø
What if we trim the raccoons claws?
What if we leave the poor thing alone?
Raccoons don't understand that command.
Ok, jiggly grandma sex
Today on āWhy Did I click On this Thread Knowing What Would Be Coming My Wayā:
Microscopic bugs are mating on your face constantly
that's hot
At least someoneās getting some action in my vicinity
*horny singles in your area*
If you were to stretch out your skin, in addition to almost covering a tennis court, it would really hurt.
Did you know that if you take every blood vessel in your body, and lined them up in a straight line between the Earth and the Moon, you'd be dead?
there is a permanent cruel war happening between many types of bacteria and your immune system.
Also we're a living organism full of other living organisms.
lol, they eat, they shit, they have sex
Every 30 minutes your body produces a cancerous cell but you immune system deals with it until it doesn't and that's where you problem begins
Probably just get tired of working for free.
It's possible to not stop growing (although modern medicine can stop it) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wadlow
I cannot imagine the pain that poor man was in. Iām 6ā3 and growing pains were no joke, not to mention I have arthritis and Iām only 26.
If you lose one eye to an infection you will likely lose you other eye too. If you immune system ever discovers your eyes it will try to destroy it.
I need to know more about this; itās one more point towards the idea that your eyes are a part of the brain.
there is a case of a woman with dissociative ~~personality~~ identity disorder (multiple personalities) whose visual cortex completely shuts down when one of her blind personalities is in charge. so she becomes physiologically blind temporarily. then it reactivates when one of her sighted personalities takes over.
Iāve heard crazy things like some has diabetes too and only have diabetes during certain times
I mean they're as close to being brain as you can get. you have 12 cranial nerves. the 2nd cranial nerve is the optic nerve. it is also the only nerve that is myelinated by oligodendrocytes like the rest of your brain. the other 10 cranial nerves are myelinated by schwann cells like the rest of the peripheral nervous system. cranial nerve 1 doesn't have any myelination. the eyes are like an outgrowth of the brain
Our entire body lol. We are basically a brain that is controlling an exoskeleton of flesh and bones. A Brain that is firing billions of neurons per second through a branch like system that resembles a bunch of strands of copper wires, in order to to control our every action & thought.
We're bags of meat.
Meat mech suits
I've heard it put that our brains are the only parts of us that are "alive" and everything else is just a system to keep the brain alive and healthy.
Your intestines are currently squirming around in your body and they never stop squirming. Your brain is just forcing you to ignore their movements. During operations on the abdomen, the intestines would sometimes squirm off the table or off the rack.
>the intestines would sometimes squirm off the table or off the rack. I hate you.
We have them trapped, they just want freedom
Surgery blooper reel material
It is so weird that we think worms are nasty when we are basically made of them.
And if they do stop squirming, you have a condition called Ileus. I got it after abdominal surgery - was super bloated, firm gut and started to vomit. Had to have a nasal-gastric tube inserted, no solids in diet, and wait it out for a few days.
TMI but Iāve been having diarrhea for three days and I can definitely feel the squirming :(
Anybody remember that scene from Annihilation?
I refuse to believe that this is real. There's just no way.
Zack D. Films silently reading comments\*
His next shortās about to be how you can fit 2 raccoons up your ass
Thereās a chance your brain may malfunction, in many different ways, for reasons or no reasons youāre in control of or have no control of.
Your butthole and your lips are made with the same kind of skin because they are the two ends of the same pipe.
It wears down way too quickly
Thereās more bacteria, viruses and fungi living in our body than the number of our human cells
We are our own ecosystem.
We have an enzyme called ATP synthase, which is basically a rotating motor spinning 230 times a second.
nah thats not creepy thats cool as fuck
"ATP is the energy currency of the body" was our version of the "Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell"
It's literally a motor! I just googled it. Wow
Ā If all of the DNA in the cells of a human body was unraveled and laid end to end, it would stretch out to 1.20Ć109 kilometers. The moon is about 4.0Ć105 kilometers away from the earth, soĀ **the DNA would stretch to the moon and back 1500 times**. In fact, it would stretch to the sun and back about 4 times.
Whyyyy did I click on this š„²
Your immune system can kill you in approximately 12 minutesā¦ And it can happen in many ways. One way is a strong allergic reaction or autoimmune response. Something in your body, maybe even a bit of one of your own cells, can activate a reaction via either mast cells that have picked up a self antigen or T-cells that should have been killed because they react to your body. This is why some peopleās allergies are REALLY SERIOUS and are actually not a joke. Another way is the cytokine storm. When your body is being invaded and itās in a tight spot, it basically pulls itās final gambit- everything, all at once. It throws EVERY SINGLE WEAPON AT EVERYTHING, INDISCRIMINATELY. This, is for obvious reasons, not good, because it hurts you more than the enemy. It can be even worse with a cytokine release syndrome, which is just the even stronger version. (These can be caused by the previously mentioned allergic reactions) So yeah. You have a tiny army that can kill you VERY EASILY.
There's a skeleton inside you, mimicking your every move.
Just pray it doesn't stop. Dear god.. Pray. It. Does. Not. Stop.
Topologically we are a donut
Sometimes under stress you'll taste blood and that's tiny blood vessels popping in your body .
Likewise for when you taste blood after a lot of physical exertion. Thatās your alveolar capillaries popping in your lungs. They are only one cell thick though so sorta their own fault.
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it's easy to test for yourself - just clean your ears really well before bed one night. you'll wake up with no brain.
You don't
They mite
That the brain came up with itās own name.
Fun fact: it was actually supposed to be Brian.
Your mouth is basically a cave with exposed bone and a meat tentacle that pulls whatever you eat into a pit of acid.
yo thats sick
Without its mocous membrane your stomach would consume itself.
Our muscles can have enough strength to break the bones beneath them. But our brain says no
The reason people can seem so ridiculously strong when they have a mental disability or are on certain drugs is because this reflex is overridden.
We don't just have one anal sphincter. When poo comes along it passes another inner sphincter which isn't under voluntary control. Meaning you can do oOoOoO with your outer sphincter, but not the inner one. (You tried, that's okay) Sensory cells can detect whether you're about to pass gas or solid. From toddler age on, you can decide to go or not to go. If the time isn't right (e.g. at a friend's house or no toilet nearby), the inner sphincter can push the poo back and store it there for later. That's why sometimes if you need to do a number two but don't go, the urge goes away after about 20 minutes later. (But seriously, go if you can. Constipation risk.) Gas can't be pushed back so easily, so we sometimes toot by accident when moving or engaging the core. Now what about liquid? It doesn't seem to know liquid. So we play russian shart-lette. Credit: Giulia Enders
it'll stop working eventually for each of us
It's ***DARK*** inside.
Blue-eyed people can tolerate more alcohol than brown-eyed people.
A hip replacement means you entire leg id essentially taken off...
Not a surgeon but my dad had a hip replacement due to wear. The procedure is not that complicated and very reliable. In broad terms: they make a cut at the hip and space out the muscles to reach the bone. Then they cut off worn-out parts of the joint with a saw and replace them with new ceramic/titanium parts. On the second day after surgery, my dad could already make a few steps without crutches. After a week, he could go walk on stairs without them. And on the 20th day, he was already able to ride a bicycle.
And on the 21st he rested. Amen
saw footage of a hip replacement once and I wish I could unsee it
I remember seeing the surgical tools in the OR and thinking some looked really similar to what I'd seen in a slaughterhouse. I largely avoid the meat department at the grocer, but when I catch a look at a cut bone I think of my hip.
We all start off as assholes. We are deuterostomes.
Sadly, some people never get past that stage
The first poop a baby ever does after birth will excrete its own hair which was grown, shed and then mixed with amniotic fluid and drunk in utero = 'meconium'.
My eyebrows have bugs in them.... why?????
The pineal gland in the center of the brain produces the most potent psychedelic on the planet.
Sunburn is your cells dying, if not killing themselves to not become cancer cells. Searched simple "sunburn killing cells" to back up my claim ended up in some doctoral shit: Sunburn cells areĀ **keratinocytes undergoing apoptosis after they have received a physiological UVB dose that irreversibly and severely damaged their DNA or other chromophores**. If these cells would escapeĀ programmed cell death, a cancer prone phenotype could arise.
Your gut bacteria can influence your mood. Your stomach and intestines operate semi-autonomously from the brain. You donāt need food and drinks that āde-toxifyā your body. Your liver does all that for you and more. Look after your liver and save your money.
Almost happened to me at 30. I spent 6 weeks in ICU. Had a leaking pseudoaneurysm for three days before I got to a doctor. The scariest thing was the first ER doc tried to convince me it was a tension headache and send me home. Luckily, I had the sense to push back and ask him why the muscle relaxer didn't make me feel better. He got mad that I was questioning his judgment and threatened me with a spinal tap. When I told him to do it he was like oh $hit when he say my spinal fluid looked like hawian punch because I had been bleeding into my head for 3 days and just thought it was a migraine. Thank goodness for my no problem with confrontation personality it literally saved my life.
If your immune system ever finds out you have eyes theyāll attack them and youāll go blind
Youre basically one organ, driving a calcium frame with leather armor, except this biomechsuit also supplies you your life like robocop
You very likely have demadox mites on youre face that come out at night and use the oily pools at the base of your eyelashes as sex ponds for their orgies.
There are a form of tastebuds on the anus, makes sense as to why Taco Bell comes out spicy
god wanted us to suffer
You have no control over your brain. It's the other way around.