Sure you might know a little about your body, but unless you’re medical student, you probably aren’t going to try to figure out:
- That you shed skin more frequently than snakes do
- Why the number of fat cells you have rarely changes, no matter how much you diet or exercise — they simply get bigger or smaller
- How you can measure and control fat
- That your hair is made from the same stuff as horses’ hooves
- That you use only a small amount of the oxygen you inhale
- Why blood pressure is a more important health measure than heart rate — with four ways to lower dangerously high blood pressure
- Why our bodies crave foods that make us fat
- How to use heart rate to shape an optimal workout session — one that’s neither too easy nor too strenuous
- Why a tongue with just half a dozen taste buds can identify thousands of flavors
- Why bacteria in your gut outnumbers cells in your body — and what function they serve
- Why we age, and why we can’t turn back the clock
- What happens to your body in the minutes after you die
Now you can get all that info from O’Reily’s new book “Your Body: The Missing Manual.” It’s so good I blogged about it just to get a free copy.
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