I'm Practically A Doctor Now After Seeing These 21 Impossibly Interesting Charts About The Human Body
1. First — wowza — this is what the nerves connected to your teeth look like:
2. And — yikes — this chart shows the black market value of your body parts (it's from 2017, so I've put the 2022 values adjusted for inflation under the image):
Credit: Futurism
2022 Value
Corneas: $24,720
Skeleton: $8,024
Lungs: $330,692
Kidney: $168,629
Liver: $166,562
Blood: $361 per pint
Skin: $9.73 a square inch
Bones and ligament: $5,836
3. Thinking of getting a tattoo? Here's where it will only hurt a little and where it will hurt like hell:
Credit: Health Line
4. Fun fact: Babies don't just pop out with fully developed vision. It's a gradual process:
Credit: Ohio Optometric Association
5. I didn't know this...did you know this?! Your fingernails can say a LOT about your health:
Credit: Berkeley Wellness
6. It should come as no surprise that smoking is bad for your heart...but this chart REALLY lays it all out there:
7. Thankfully, if you quit smoking, it can have an incredibly positive impact on your health...in the short- and long-term:
Credit: WebMD
8. This chart cleverly uses lemons to help people understand the signs of breast cancer:
Credit: Know Your Lemons
Here's a closer look at that one:
9. Sorry, folks...but cannabis stays in your body WAY longer than other drugs:
Credit: Business Insider
10. This chart is a little hard to read but makes a REALLY important point — the main cause of death in the US is heart disease (31%), but the general public and media pay it little mind. For example, people google "cancer" 18 times more than "heart disease!" Check it out:
Credit: Our World in Data
11. Since heart disease is something we should all know more about, here's a chart explaining the differences in men vs. women when it comes to heart attack symptoms:
Credit: American Heart Association
12. And here's a chart explaining the differences between a cardiac arrest and a heart attack (the writing is small so I will break them apart for easier reading below):
The difference between a heart attack and cardiac arrest, in honor of American Heart Month from coolguides
Credit: American Heart Association
Cardiac arrest:
Heart attack:
13. You know when docs say they want an X-ray, MRA, MRI, Pet Scan, or CT Scan? Well, they all look inside your body but in totally different ways:
14. This is interesting — different lengths of naps have remarkably different effects on your body (I'll do a zoomed in version of the text under the embed):
Here's the text zoomed in:
15. Did you know where we make sounds in our mouths varies greatly? "H" comes from your throat; "P" comes off your lips! Interesting:
16. Here's how much walking positively affects your body:
17. OK, this chart explaining what happens to your body after you die is a little morbid, but I'll be damned if I didn't read the whole thing:
18. Along lines of the above — this incredible embroidery unflinchingly shows the stages of decomposition:
Credit: Calicoranger
