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.

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10 Things You Should Know About Your Brain

I was reading some article about Brain, its exercise, memory problems and all about how it works and I thought I should share these facts here so I will share more after post so you can search on blog with
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• When you’re sleeping, your brain stays awake.
• The brain itself cannot feel pain? Headache pain is felt in the tissues, nerves and blood vessels surrounding the brain.
• Most people assume that vision is what your eye sees and reports to your brain. Actually, the brain adds a great deal to the report it gets from the eye; much what you see is "made up" by the brain.
• A baby’s brain triples its size in the first year of life.
• Men’s brains are on the average 9% bigger than women’s brains. This does not mean men are smarter than women!
• The diameter of an individual brain neuron is four microns. This means that 30,000 neurons could fit on the head of a pin.
• Even one night without sleep can create a deficit and generate memory problems.
• If you have a condition known as “synesthesia,” your brain perceives letters or numbers as having colors.
• An elephant’s brain weighs about 13 pounds, or about 10 pounds more than yours.
• Chances are that Albert Einstein's brain was smaller than yours, but don’t get too excited; it’s only because he was physically smaller than average.

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