1. Your brain keeps developing into your late 40's.
2. Your brain is made up of about 75% water.
3. Your brain consists of about 100 billion neurons.
4. There are no pain receptors in the brain, so the brain can feel no pain.
5. While an elephant’s brain is physically larger than a human brain, the human brain is 2% of total body weight, compared to 0.15% of an elephant’s brain, meaning humans have the largest brain to body size.
6. Your brain generates about 12-25 watts of electricity. This is enough to power a low wattage LED light.
7. Memory is more of an activity than a place. Any given memory is deconstructed and distributed in different parts of the brain. Then, for the memory to be recalled, it gets reconstructed from the individual fragments.
8. Think you’re in control of your life? Think again. 95% of your decisions take place in your subconscious mind.
9. Your brain starts slowing down at the ripe old age of 24 but peaks for different cognitive skills at different ages. In fact at any given age, you’re likely getting better at some things and worse at others.
10. Your brain’s storage capacity is considered virtually unlimited. It doesn’t get “used up” like RAM in your computer.
11. Prescription sleeping pills don’t put you to sleep. They put your brain into a state similar to being in a coma, essentially bypassing any restorative value of sleep.
12. Your brain weighs about 1.36 kgs (3 pounds). Of that, the dry weight is 60% fat, making your brain the fattiest organ.
13. The average brain is believed to generate around 50,000 thoughts per day. Disturbingly, it’s estimated that in most people 70% of these thoughts are negative.
14. Multitasking makes you less productive. When you multitask, your brain simply rapidly toggles back and forth between tasks. This results in decreases in attention span, learning, performance, and short-term memory.
15. Over 140 proteins in the brain are negatively impacted by exposure to electromagnetic frequencies — the kind emitted by your cell phone and other electronic devices.
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