Massage and Reflexology of Delaware

Did you know…?

The human body is made of:

• 60,000,000,000 cells (trillion)
• 600 muscles
• 206 bones
• The kidney filters the equivalent of 42 gallons of water daily.
• Nerve impulses travel 300 ft. per second

One quarter sized patch of skin contains:

• 1 yard of blood vessels
• 4 yards of nerves
• 100 sweat glands
• 3,000.000 cells

Other Amazing Facts:

• Every minute your heart beats 70 times
• Every minute you produce millions of new cells
• Every day you make layers of new skin
• Every three weeks the stomach gets a new lining
• Every three months liver cells replicate completely
• Every 3 years you make new bones

All of this happens without you having to think about it or to do anything. Your innate intelligence carries out these processes.

Do you think massage therapy has an effect on health now?

Filed under: News on March 11th, 2008