Ever wonder how fast your various body functions are traveling?
You are about to find out!
Did you know your diaphragm moves about an inch per second or about .05mph which allows our lungs to pull in about 2 gallons of air per minute.
Or that the average person chews about an inch per second or again around .05mph.
The food we eat moves down our throats at approximately .04mph. Which means we chew faster than the time it takes for the food to go down the esophagus and enter the stomach. A good reason to pause when eating and allow the food we are swallowing to get to the stomach. This can take about 8 seconds depending on how long your esophagus is.
We urinate at half an ounce per second. This varies depending on how full the bladder is and our age and gender.
Our blood flows up to 5mph or the pace of the average person walking. Not as fast as you might have expected. But fast enough that an injection in the arm reaches the brain in seconds.
Yes even our farts move up to 7mph. Luckily this slows down quite abit once out into the room.
Men ejaculate at nearly 28mph. But sperm once released only a few mph.
Vomit gushes out at 42mph. I know you all were wondering about this one.
Our coughs can reach a speed of over 50mph. According to some research the cough may reach speeds of 500mph while moving through our windpipes. (85% of the speed of sound)
Thoughts generally only move at around 70mph. Surprised?
But our neural impulses move from our brains to our bodies at 250mph. The signal from the brain to our finger to move is travelling at 250mph. Quite abit faster than our thoughts which tend to linger floating around in the brain.
Sneezes can reach speeds of 100mph though generally most of us sneeze around 40mph. No wonder we move away from someone who is about to sneeze. No one wants to get hit with a 40-100mph sneeze. Kinda scary actually!
Our eyes move between 17 and 117mph depending on if we are focusing on details or not.
We know we are about to feel pain at 170mph but only actually feel the pain at 4mph. We know we hurt ourselves seconds before we feel the actual pain.
What a fascinating vehicle our bodies are. One that is in constant motion.
Together Our Hands Are Joined To Heal One Another…
Alexander Gardener
The Lymph Guy
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