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We are glad to welcome you, dear readers of the blog! Today I want to bring to your attention the facts about the brain, the most mysterious organ with unlimited possibilities. After all, not all of his abilities still have a scientific explanation. So, are you ready?
Physiological Data
- The brain grows during exercise. Surprisingly, it can really be pumped up like a muscle.
- On average, it reaches 1424 grams in an adult man and about 1324 grams in a woman, but she has more gray matter. Perhaps this is due to the fact that gray matter prevails in individuals with a humanitarian mindset. And, as we know, most of the fair sex just succeeds in the humanities.
- We all know that in old age there is a decline in cognitive abilities, which sometimes ends in dementia, that is, dementia. Such changes are also reflected in the weight of the brain, for example, the loss can reach 30-40 grams.
- The peak of development falls on 2 years and lasts up to 11 years.
- The brain consists of 80-100 billion neurons. Moreover, the right hemisphere, which is responsible for creativity, is 200 million poorer.
- Motivation for those who want to lose weight — in addition to training and dieting, just … study. The brain burns about 20% of calories. Perhaps it is hard work that helps keep fit for those who do not have weight problems.
- Despite the fact that the human brain makes up about 3% of the total body weight, it absorbs the maximum amount of oxygen — as much as 20%.
- In addition to neurons, the brain also contains glial cells, which are much larger. As many as 10 of these glial cells account for 1 neuron. They help transmit impulses and provide access to essential substances and oxygen.
Historical facts
- Do not believe it, but the weight of the brain of dinosaurs, whose length was about 9 meters, was negligible, about 70 grams. Just imagine an ankylosaurus or a triceratops with a tiny brain that really does look like a walnut.
- In 1970, Robert Heath, a scientist at Tulane University, conducted an unusual experiment. He «healed» with electric discharges right through the brain of a guy who had a passion for other men and completely ignored women. The blows fell just in the area responsible for pleasure. The subject actually confirmed the occurrence of an orgasm at that moment. In order to firmly strengthen his interest in the opposite sex, at that moment he was given a magazine with pornographic content. The experiment was only half successful. He did not cure homosexuality, but transformed it into bisexuality.
Interesting Facts
- Faith in God not only gives hope for a brighter future, but is really healing. When a person prays, his breathing returns to normal, as do the wave vibrations of the brain. And this contributes to recovery even from very difficult diseases. By the way, prayer, in its essence, is the exact same meditation.
- Never stop learning something new and evolving. Scientists have made a discovery, it turns out that during intellectual activity, new cells begin to form in the brain. Which may well replace those that are destroyed for any reason. Accordingly, the more educated a person is, the healthier he is.
- Do you know why it is sometimes important not to tell anyone about your plans? No, not because they jinx it. It turns out that at the moment when a person shares information about what goal he has set for himself, his brain perceives it as already fulfilled. That is, he is satisfied with the story itself. Why the energy and motivation to achieve the plan falls. For example, as a woman, sometimes it is enough to try on a new thing, and not to buy, in order to experience joy and inspiration.
- Forgetting any material has a positive effect on the nervous system, it acquires plasticity. So phenomenal memory is not always good.
Exploding Facts
- Do you know what color the brain is? It’s bright pink. And gray cells, which make up about 40%, become really gray only when they die. The remaining 60% belong to the white matter.
- During orgasm, the brain produces such a dose of dopamine, the hormone of pleasure, that the effect becomes the same as after taking a dose of heroin.
- Those who lead a healthy lifestyle tend to completely eliminate fatty foods from their diet. But in vain. It turns out that despite the fact that it is very harmful to the cardiovascular system and the body as a whole, it turns out that it is just what you need for the brain.
- Approximately 750 milliliters of blood passes through our brain every minute.
- Do you know why politicians mostly look alike? And I’m not talking about appearance, but a worldview, a way of life … Have you heard the expression that power changes people? This is exactly what happens, the principle of the brain changes completely as soon as a person feels power in his hands.
- Many mothers on maternity leave complain that they feel like they are degrading. But scientists have made a discovery that refutes such ideas. A person develops more actively in the process of talking with a child, reading books to him. Most likely, because you have to find explanations for simple things that everyone seems to understand, except for the baby.
- As many as 5 parts of the brain are activated in order to understand the joke and laugh at it.
Facts that not everyone knows
- The brain has no nerve endings. Accordingly, a person will not feel anything if he is touched or even tried to cut. The pain will be only due to a violation of the integrity of the skin and the skull itself.
- During the day, a person visits about 70 thousand thoughts. Just imagine this number. Among them, in any case, there is at least one every day that borders on genius.
- Do you know why, when a person is motion sick, nausea and vomiting always occur? The brain regards this condition as poisoning with some kind of poison and seeks to rid the body of it as soon as possible.
- When you’re tired but can’t relax, sniff chocolate. Its smell can increase theta wave activity. This is one of the brain rhythms that have a beneficial effect on the body.
- Unfortunately, the anxieties of people who are afraid of radiation are justified. A person who actively uses a mobile phone has a several times higher risk of getting brain oncology.
- Albert Einstein’s brain was stolen, it was searched for about 20 years. And he appropriated to himself the pathologist who did the autopsy on him.
Amazing Facts
- The brain simply needs glucose and oxygen. And if there are enough of them in its cells, then even if you cut off a person’s head, the brain itself will not die immediately, but may well function within 2 minutes.
- Our memory is completely unlimited. Therefore, we can remember absolutely any amount of material.
- If all the blood vessels that are in the brain are connected in one line, it will take about 100 thousand miles.
- Did you know that when tinnitus is felt, these are not problems with the eardrums and so on, but only part of the work of the brain?
Recommendation
As always, I encourage you to exercise your brain. And you can do this with very simple and interesting exercises that you find here.
Completion
And finally, I want to recommend you an article on how to develop the hidden capabilities of the brain. The exercises indicated in it will help to increase the level of IQ and even change the quality of life, making it more interesting and rich.
Take care of yourself and be happy!
The material was prepared by a psychologist, Gestalt therapist, Zhuravina Alina