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

Being ignored or rejected has the same effect on the brain as a physical injury. Repeated rejection overtime causes other mental and physical health probkems like depression and ptsd. We never forget the feeling of being rejected or ignored and when recalling the memory you feel the emotional pain again. When we try recall physical pain, our brains do not allow it happen. You know you had pain at the time but the memory doesn't cause the pain again.

The fastest killing virus takes around 4 days to kill you. That would be Ebola.

Your immune system can kill you in 15 minutes.

As a former civil engineer, it always shocked me how close the waste disposal and recreation areas were placed to each other.

Adolescence. Most mammals hit adulthood in one clean break. Our kids hit a terrifying state of not being able to take care of themselves but capable of and hormonally hell-bent on reproducing. Like, what kind of messed-up series of horrors made THAT a biological advantage?

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva is a disease that is undetectable, and the cause is not known. It appears when your muscle cells start being replaced with bone cells. Eventually, over year, your body locks up until you're entirely "locked in" and you suffocate.

Your bones are wet.

Your butt hole print is more unique than your fingerprint, thank Salvador Dali for that discovery.

A few weeks ago I had emergency surgery because I was severely bleeding out internally. The source was a ruptured ovarian cyst. Worst pain of my life. I don’t have PCOS or any reproductive condition and the doctors informed me that everyone with a uterus has existing cysts. It’s a matter of tough f****n luck that one of mine tried to kill me but it could happen to anyone.

People with pancreatic cancer can have a “sense of impending doom” weeks to months before being diagnosed.

Edit: sorry for adding to your anxieties! If you aren’t a middle aged or older smoker, you shouldn’t worry too much about this. If you are…please stop smoking. There are drugs and behavioral therapies that can help you quit. I love you.

Edit 2: as others have pointed out, there are other diseases that have this symptom too. You can freak out about this fact or just take the moral of the story: if you feel like something is wrong, don’t wait (hesitation is defeat). Set up an appointment with your doctor, ask them what it could be and how they’re going to determine what it is. Ask questions and take care of yourself.

That the placebo effect is way stronger than most people think. In Vsauce's video on the subject, a kid suffering from constant seizures stopped having the seizures, I'm pretty sure entirely. And all because they put him in a machine that they said "healed him" when in reality it did nothing.

Your immune system doesn’t know your eyes exist, if it did it would attack them and make you go blind.

Most of the bacteria that will decompose you when you die is already inside you and makes up a sizeable portion of your body mass. That’s why removing organs staves off decomposition of a body for longer.

Your life is currently on a timer of around 6 minutes. After 6 minutes, you will die.

Every time you breath this timer is reset.

Your fingernails grow four times as fast as your toenails
Babies are born with 300 bones – adults have 206
Eyelashes last about 150 days
The heart circulates blood through your body about 1,000 times each day
You make about half a quart (500ml) of spit each day
The smallest bone in your body is in your ears
Your blood has the same amount of salt in it as the ocean does
A sneeze blows air out of your nose at 100 miles per hour

Our brains create false memories way more often than we think. False memories occur pretty easily as well. Going along with that, the more "vivid" a memory seems the more likely it is that it's fabricated. On top of that, the more we recall a memory, the more susceptible to change it becomes and then the modifications that have been made seem more real because us recalling and then consolidating it further cements it in our memory to be "true".

A fun fact to go along with all this information is that deja vu is actually your brain spontaneously fabricating a new false memory and that's a perfect example that showcases the vividness we experience in our false memories.

If you have a surgery where they need to move your organs around they might not function for a day as the body assumes that they are dead.

Your body will begin its inevitable decline DECADES before your mind does. You can mitigate it, but nothing can stop it.

My immune system is trying to kill me. It thinks that producing insulin is bad so it kills off insulin producing beta cells. Type 1 diabetes is a f*****g hassle.

The number-one symptom of heart disease is sudden death.

You make and swallow between 1 and 2 liters of saliva. Every. Day.