10 Facts About the Brain

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5-8-2008 4:36 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/da53d959-4641-4656-9bce-f2c79c09e888/9520543E-00B5-40DD-BB02-9EC41AF245F0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2008/05/08/top-10-interesting-facts-about-the-brain/" href="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2008/05/08/top-10-interesting-facts-about-the-brain/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.lifeoptimizer.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2008/05/08/top-10-interesting-facts-about-the-brain/">Your brain is the most <STRONG>energy-consuming </STRONG>part of your body. The brain  represents only 2% of the body weight, but it uses up to 20 percent of the  body’s energy production.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2008/05/08/top-10-interesting-facts-about-the-brain/">Your brain contains about <STRONG>100 billion neurons</STRONG> which is about 16 times the number of people on earth.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2008/05/08/top-10-interesting-facts-about-the-brain/">The neocortex (a section of the brain involved with language and  consciousness) accounts for about 76% of the mass of the human brain.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2008/05/08/top-10-interesting-facts-about-the-brain/">Neurons multiply at a rate <STRONG>250,000 neurons <EM>per minute </EM></STRONG>during early  pregnancy.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2008/05/08/top-10-interesting-facts-about-the-brain/">750ml of blood pumps through your brain every minute which is <STRONG>15-20% of  blood flow</STRONG> from the heart.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2008/05/08/top-10-interesting-facts-about-the-brain/">The human brain is about <STRONG>75% water</STRONG>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2008/05/08/top-10-interesting-facts-about-the-brain/">Your brain generates <STRONG>25 watts of power</STRONG> while you’re awake which is enough to  illuminate a lightbulb.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2008/05/08/top-10-interesting-facts-about-the-brain/">Humans <STRONG><EM>do not </EM>use only 10%</STRONG> or less of their brain. This is a common  misconception.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2008/05/08/top-10-interesting-facts-about-the-brain/"> It is estimated that the human brain has a raw computational power between  <STRONG>10<SUP>13</SUP> and 10<SUP>16</SUP> operations per second</STRONG>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2008/05/08/top-10-interesting-facts-about-the-brain/">Our brain <STRONG>often fools us</STRONG>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9520543E-00B5-40DD-BB02-9EC41AF245F0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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