Facts: The Nervous System

By Jack Morgan


Nervous system of any human being is one of the most complicated systems of human body that is responsible for almost every action and reaction of human body. Nervous system is combination of neurons or nerves and a central nervous system and it control all the voluntary activities for example, talking, walking and non voluntary actions like breathing or reflexes.

However, although these feelings, in addition to various digestive symptoms, accustomed to not be taken too really, we are now discovering that the cells and tissues in our stomach actually do have "a mind of their own" so we should begin taking its communications more seriously.

We already said that nervous system is the most complicated system of human body and you can easily believe on this statement with this simple fact that human brain contain more cells than all the stars of milky way and only human brain has more than 100 million neuron in it. It is also interesting to know that we can make a 600 miles long row just by aligning the neurons of one human body and out of all these neurons 13, 500,00 neurons are available in spinal cord of human only.

Nevertheless, even though our enteric system comprises a second brain, it doesn't mean that this two structures are performing separate entities. In fact, the two brains are linked quite heavily and influence each other in many regards.

Talking about the size of the brain its average weight in a male is about 1375 gram while average weight of female brain is about 1275 grams. Other interesting fact is that every year we lose almost one gram of our brain due to aging and death of neuron cells.

There are 13,500,000 neuron cells in the human spinal chord. Half of a new born baby's nerve cells are lost before they are born. 25,000 square centimeters equals the square surface of the human brain. Neurons are actually some of the largest cells in the human body.

As we said it is responsible for your reflexes as well, so you might be wondering what is the transmitting speed of signals on neuron , then it is more than 100 meters per second and an average human body is not longer than 2 meters and this fact clearly specify about the speed of reflexes taken by human brain via non voluntary actions.

It's kind of amazing to think that blood arises from your bones right? Other interesting facts is that human beings have as many bones inside their neck as giraffes, it's just giraffes have lengthier vertebrae, and contrary to well-liked belief, 97% of organisms on this earth will not utilize bones or bone fragments structure! These are just some of the more amazing details of your body!




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