SOUTH SHORE FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC
Monthly News - April 2009

"Our Incredible Body"

1. You are made of 60 trillion cells.
2. You have 600 muscles and 206 bones.
3. It takes 40 muscles to frown and only 17 to smile.
4. There are more than 600 muscles in your body. To press a barbell over your head takes 200 of them, - 31 in your face alone.
5. 3 million red blood cells are made per minute.
6. RBC's live approximately 120 days and make 300,000 trips though the blood stream; that's almost 2-trips per minute.
7. If all of your blood vessels were placed end to end, they would stretch around the world 12 times!
8. The heart weighs less than one pound and yet beats approximately 40 million times per year.
9. The heart pumps 2.5 gallons per minute or 1,314,000 gallons per year.
10. The energy output of the heartbeat in a 24 hour period alone is enough to raise three fully loaded Greyhound buses off the ground.
11. The lungs use about 90-gallons of pure oxygen per day.
12. Because of the alveoli (tiny projections in the lungs), the surface area of the lungs is approximately 40-60 square miles.
13. We take approximately 9-million breaths per year.
14. Our lungs pump approximately 2-gallons of air per minute while at rest and approximately 26-gallons of air per minute while exercising.
15. Stomach acid (hydrochloric acid) is so strong, that one drop of it on the skin will leave a painful blister, but the stomach is left unharmed.
16. The stomach produces 2.5-quarts of acid per day.
17. Over the course of a 70-year life span, the stomach will have produced 60,000 quarts of acid to help digest 40-tons of food.
18. FEVER: The body produces interferon (a natural virus fighting chemical) and when the body's temperature is elevated (as with fever), it is produced in greater quantities and becomes more efficient. White blood cells (main defense against microorganisms) speed more quickly to fight off infection; they also become more active. Iron, which many germs thrive on, is with drawn from the blood and stored in the liver. And, the body's chemical reaction rate is accelerated during a fever.
19. Nerves transmit their signals at 300 m.p.h.
20. Your nervous system controls all of your body's systems and function.
21. There are 100 billion neurons (nerve cells) inthe human body. If you were going to count all 100 billion cells at the rate of 1 per second, it would take 3,171 years!
22. Your brain is like a computer, although it always stays "ON", actively working for your whole body. It organizes all of the functions of your body's billions of cells.
23. Your brain sends electrical impulses down your spinal column through the nerves to your whole body.
24. Light pressure on a spinal nerve root can lessen your nerve transmission as much as 40%. This can negatively affect any part of your health.
25. Nerves can become stretched, over stimulated or irritated with spinal misalignment, causing an increase in nerve transmission.
26. When your nervous system functions correctly, you can be truly healthy!!!!!!!!!!!

The Body truly is an awesome vitalistic marvel. Chiropractic care honors the body's innate intelligence. We do not try to out smart innate intelligence by either chemically stimulating or inhibiting function. By reducing or correcting vertebral subluxation we are removing a blockage in the flow of innate intelligence. "The body needs no help, just no interference".

-Dr. Bill