The Magnificent Wonders of the human body created by God are incredibly smart machines. It functions without consciously maintaining itself, other than eating, drinking fluids, and going to the bathroom. A phenomenon, a miraculous system, is within you.

Can you claim ownership of your own body or yourself? No! The Quran says: “Then He made him complete and breathed into him of His spirit and made for you the ears and eyes and the hearts; little is it that you give thanks.” – (Surah As-Sajdah 32:9)

With the madness of the world around you, you forget the miracles happening everywhere, all around you, every day, and every second with you. I want to mention a few wonders of the human body. 

There are 200 types of cells in the Human body:

30 trillion Red blood cells

150 to 400 million platelets

45 million white blood cell

38 trillion bacterial Cells

50 billion Fat cells

35 billion Skin Cells 

The above is not the final estimate for the number of cells in your body, but it’s a good start. Over time, scientists will continue to fine-tune these calculations. Your brain alone contains approximately 100 billion neurons.

The cells of the immune system can be categorized as lymphocytes (T-cells, B-cells, and NK cells), neutrophils, and monocytes/macrophages. These are all types of white blood cells. Another 45 million lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell) are found in the human body.

You have, on average, about 39 trillion microbial cells. So by that measure, you’re only about 43% human,” said Rob Knight, director of the University of California San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation and professor of paediatrics and computer science and engineering.

There are more microbial cells in a person’s body than in human cells. The microbes in the human body include bacteria, viruses, and fungi, like this fungal spore bacteria in water.

How many hairs do you have?

Have you ever wondered how many hairs there are on your head? Most healthy people have between 80,000 & 120,000 hairs on their heads. On average, your hair grows about 6 inches in a year. That’s about 1/2 inch per month. Male hair grows faster than female hair. Your entire body has a total of about 5 million hair follicles. You’re born with all your hair follicles and don’t develop more as you age.

You are fascinating! The total length of your blood circulatory system stretches an amazing 60,000 miles (100,000 kilometres). That is more than twice the distance around the Earth. That means a person’s blood vessels could wrap around the planet approximately 2.5 times!

Your heart pumps about 2000 gallons of blood every day (capacity same as a water truck). Each day, 5,000 gallons of air are transported through airways leading into and extending throughout the lungs. Your lungs have 600 million networks of interconnected tubes. You breathe 17,000 to 20,000 breaths a day.

Your bones are stronger than steel!  

Bone is solid – ounce for ounce, bone is stronger than steel since a bar of steel of comparable size would weigh four or five times as much. A cubic inch of bone can, in principle, bear a load of 19,000 lbs. (8,626 kg) or more — roughly the weight of five standard pickup trucks – making it about four times as strong as concrete. You have 300 bones at birth & 206 bones by adulthood. 

You are Astonishing! You lose 50 to 150 strands of hair a day. You shed ten billion flakes of skin a day. Every 28 days, you get completely new skin.

You have 200 lashes on the upper lids, while the lower lashes have approximately 100 lashes. Our eyelashes fall out and completely replenish themselves every 150 days. An average person has about 250 hairs per eyebrow. 

You lose 30,000 to 40,000 dead skin cells each minute, about 50 million cells every day. You lose & gain 259 billion red blood cells per day; roughly the same number of RBCs are dying off. You have 19 million skin cells in every inch of your body.

Your nose can detect about 1 trillion smells. The human eyes can distinguish approximately 10 million different colours. You blink 15-20 times per minute, 1200 times an hour, 28,800 times in a day. Your ears contain more than 20,000 hair cells, and without them, you wouldn’t be able to hear. 

The human Brain is the world’s single-largest database

Your brain can store 2.5 million gigabytes of digital memory or as much as the entire internet of earth. Your brain can store 4.7 billion books. Your brain is the world’s single largest database & also the busiest & can store quadrillion bytes of information. 

The average human, at rest, produces around 100 watts of power. Over a few minutes, humans can comfortably sustain 300-400 watts; and in the case of concise bursts of energy, such as sprinting, some humans can output over 2,000 watts. The bulk of this energy is required for important tasks, such as pumping your heart and flexing your muscles, but a lot of it is wasted, primarily as heat. Almost all of this wasted energy can be captured and turned into electricity. Furthermore, this process could then augment or completely replace reliance on batteries.

Skin is the largest organ in our body, made up of several different parts, including water, protein, lipids (fats), and various minerals and chemicals. Throughout your life, your skin will change, for better or worse. Your skin regenerates itself approximately every 27 days.

Your body undergoes a gradual process of renewal every nine years, but it is still fundamentally different from when you last underwent this transformation. Not an atom of the person you are now was part of you back then- everything about you has changed in dramatic ways since that time. Yet your true self remains intact; metaphysical and eternal. You are made up of mind, body, and soul all together – each component is fascinating in its own right and is the key.