85 Of The Most Disturbing Things About Human Bodies That Might Freak You Out

People that have sever epilepsy can get a procedure done to cut the corpus callosum which connects the two sides of the brain, and allows them to talk to each other. Once this happens your image identification side can’t talk to your words side, and causes issues if you aren’t able to look at an item with both eyes. Otherwise patients act mostly the same.

So if you were asked to cover you eye that sends info to your language center, and then shown a ball to look at for your object identifying center you wouldn’t be able to tell what it is out loud. Your brain would still be recognizing it, but wouldn’t be able to provide the word for it.

Fortunately it is very rare to get this done these days as medication has become more effective, so this procedure is a last resort sort of thing.

No one knows why we have to sleep. We have theories. But no universally agreed upon or accepted one. The reason we spend a third of our lives incapacitated and unaware is still a mystery.

There’s enough copper in your body to make a pair of headphones.

Allergies and intolerances can just come and go as they please with no explanation
Was lactose intolerant from age 13 to 22.

Scientists once took a swab of the inside of an American man’s belly button to observe the bacteria that lived there.

They found bacteria previously only known to exist in Japan. The man had never traveled outside of the U.S.

So you never know what other country’s bacteria you’re carrying in your belly button.

The brain chemistry is stable enough to last thousands of years if not diseased, it's the rest of the body that kills us.

It is always making disgusting body noises. The only reason you are not aware of it is because the ambient noise kind of drowns it out because your ears focus on it.

If you go to one of those super-silent rooms that absorb all sorts of sounds, it is a really weird way to reacquaint yourself with your body.

It’s possible to develop tumors with hair, teeth, and even eyes. They are called teratomas.

Your fingers and toes have no muscles. All the muscles that control them via tendons are in your forearms/hands and lower legs/feet. Your fingers are like puppets on strings. Sweet dreams.

*Fixed, yes forgot about the muscles in palms/feet. No actual muscles inside the fingers/toes themselves though.

Your butthole and your mouth originate from the same cell grouping during development, but the butthole cells form first, then the mouth cells from them. That means your mouth is from your a*s.

That our immune system has cells specifically engineered to fight EVERY ILLNESS PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE, and other cells have the specific job of searching for them within our body when they are needed. Once they get activated once, they are active for the rest of your life, it’s why you can only get many diseases once, after that first time, your immune system can skip the start up phase of curing you and get right to the germ fighting.

Not sure if this is by design, but I totaled my car once, almost completely uninjured somehow. Then I looked down to my right hand which I remember jabbing into my dashboard at 55mph. Luckily (unluckily?) only my pinky took the blow. But instead of a floppy-udder full of bone-sand, my pinky was 0.5 inches long. Broke no bones, but instead perfectly stacked my phalanges, or finger bones, INTO my hand.

This is fixed by a muscular Russian murse grabbing your pinky with both hands and pulling very hard. God I wish they gave me more lidocaine.

TL;DR: Hit my pinky on dashboard, stacked finger bones instead of fracturing them.

Some people suffer from Exploding Head Syndrome, which causes them to hear a loud bang when they wake up.

So you know all those random bacteria that live in your digestive tract and help you break down the food so you can absorb the nutrients?

Sometimes those little beasties lose the plot and can start eating the inside of your GI tract. This causes your body to try and flush them out through natural processes (ie: diarrhea), but this doesn't affect the bacteria doing the harm and just causes you to get incredibly sick for months while doctors trying to figure out whats happening.

Source: my one in a billion genetic lottery "winner"

The symptoms of heart attacks are different from men and women. There is more research on men than women as well. I've heard of multiple people who have died from a heart attack because they went in and the doctors didn't recognize it because it's not the normal symptoms seen from a male.

You can get so constipated you start throwing up poop.

The tiniest injury to your brain can change your entire life. Depending on the part of the brain that gets hurt, you can lose your special/general senses, control over your own body, the ability to produce and/or comprehend language, your memories, your personality, etc. Remember to wear a helmet everyone!

When someone diets and loses weight, that fat isn't pooped out. Most of what you poop comes from something in your digestive track you consumed. Fat burned is exhaled out as carbon dioxide.

Your skin is your biggest, most complex, and least understood organ. Your skin is what most everyone considers their identity. Your skin has an amazing amount of specialized areas and functions. Elbow skin is very different than the skin covering your ears. Skin is an external organ. It’s an organ that is in contact constantly with the world around you. All of your visible body is skin, except for your eyes and hair and nails. Your skin requires more energy to sustain than any other part of your body. Skin is f****n wild. The actual “you” is wrapped in a big sweaty blanket we call skin.

There are 1000 types of parasites that can live in the human body. There are only tests for 50-60 of them.

I’m sorry everyone, but they asked.