Interesting facts about the human skin

Interesting facts about the human skin
 Human skin is one of its main organs that protect the body from harmful environmental influences and having its structure and physiology. This is perhaps known to many. But other than that, scholars have identified several interesting and important facts about the skin.

1. The skin is the largest organ of the body. Its area of ​​an adult about 2 square meters, and the weight is about 15% of the total person.

2. The presence of freckles talk about reducing the level of melanin in the body. As a rule, they disappear after 30 years.

3. In the vessels of the skin occurs about 1, 5 liters of blood.

4. As can be seen on the skin health. The presence of acne on the forehead indicates diseases of the digestive system and gastrointestinal tract, acne on the chin and say hormonal failure in the body.

5. Human skin has several functions: protective, respiratory, heat exchange, tactile, purifying and regenerating.

6. With age, skin cells slowly updated.

7. On the skin of an adult human is from about 30 to 100 moles.

8. The thickest layer of the skin is on the soles of the feet and is 0, 5 inches, and the thinnest - 0, 5 mm - on the eyelids and the eardrum.

9. On the smoothness of the skin affected by the state of collagen.

10. On the one square centimeter of skin is about 100 sweat glands, blood vessels and nerve endings 150.

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