9 Things Your Brain Should Know About Itself

• Some experts estimate the average person loses about 9,000 brain cells a day but this is not linked to memory loss.
• Your brain consists of approximately 100 billion cells and weighs about 3 pounds.
• While you're awake, your brain generates about 25 watts of power. That’s enough to illuminate a light bulb, so you should be grateful that’s not happening while you’re asleep.
• Your brain is a power hog. Although it makes up only 2% of your body's weight, it uses 20% of your body's energy.
• The right side of your brain controls the left side of your body, and the left side of your brain controls the right side of your body.
• About 750ml of blood pumps through your brain every minute.
• The human brain is about 75% water.
• Think fast! Information travels through the brain as fast as 268 miles per hour.
• Every time you yawn you’re sending a wake-up call to the brain. The extra air you inhale when yawning goes into your lungs, which send that extra oxygen to the blood and then to the brain, giving it a little jolt of alertness.

Posted in: brain, Brain Nutrition, chess, Healthy Brain, memory exercise, Memory Nutrition, science