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Things You Never Wanted To Know About Your Body

Human body is quite complicated. There are many nerves that, when damaged, can cause irreparable conditions. Yet we take our body for granted and stress it unnecessarily.

We need to understand certain facts about our body that nobody would share or even want to discuss with us. These are the facts that will actually blow your mind and make you completely care for your body!!

Generally, we take our body and its functioning for granted, there are a few things that we need to know about.

We only go in for body checkups when we feel unwell. And when something wrong is confirmed in the scan, we only panic, as we do not know how it even happened in the first place!

So, find out more about the most weirdest, yet disgusting, things about our body that we need to know.

Read on to find out about these things that you would never want to know about your own body.

Gastrointestinal Fistula

Gastrointestinal Fistula

Though this is a medical term, you need to know what it means. This is an abnormal hole that is present in your stomach or in the intestines which allows the content to leak out.

Blood

Blood

Our body comprises of a lot of liquid and almost all of the liquids present in the body are made of blood to some extent. Be it your tears, milk or even sweat, which mostly contain blood!

Melanoma

Melanoma

We all have melanoma present in our body. It is generally small and faint. But do you know that melanomas can be the most lethal of all the cancers? Well, if you see it spread, then get yourself checked at the earliest.

Stomach Acid

Stomach Acid

We need to be thankful to the constant rebuilding of the cells in our body. If it was not for the cells in your stomach's wall, then the acids would digest yourself! Yeah, now this is scary.

Digestive Tract With Waste

Digestive Tract With Waste

Okay, this is the most disgusting thing that you need to understand! All of us are walking around with poop in our digestive tracts and it is there almost all the time.

Mucus

Mucus

Did you know that on an average our body tends to produce about 2 quarts of mucus every day, and we even swallow it? Well, yes, we simply do.

Organisms

Organisms

Do not panic for the fact that there are more bacteria and other organisms that are living on and in your body than there are humans living on this planet! Phew!

Cancer Cells

Cancer Cells

Our body tends to produce cancerous cells every hour! Our immune system destroys them and hence it does not lead to the development of cancer in some of us.

Story first published: Monday, August 8, 2016, 16:26 [IST]
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