Break it down The pancreas is a glandular organ that helps convert food into fuel for the body’s cells. The head of the pancreas is wedged in the spot where the stomach meets the small intestine, and it releases digestive enzymes as partially digested food passes through....
We’ve written before about how the color of your pee can indicate the presence of life-threatening ailments—or in less serious cases, it can remind you what you ate for dinner last night. But its scent is just as telling: Below, you’ll find every cause of weird-smelling pee,...
Hair We Go Hair is one of the defining characteristics of mammals. On the human scalp alone, the average number of hairs is 120,000 (natural blondes tend to have more, redheads less). It’s the second fastest growing tissue in the body (bone marrow is the fastest) and...
Sweaty-Sweaty Sweat-Sweat On average, humans sweat out approximately 278 gallons of sweat each year. We can’t sweat on our ears, lips and nails, but everywhere else on our body is capable of sweating. Women have more sweat glands than men, despite men actually producing more sweat overall....
There’s arguably nothing as uncomfortable as swamp ass — or, in plainer terms, an ultra sweaty crack. Unfortunately, in the middle of summer you don’t have much of a say in the muggy matter, but dermatologist Anthony Rossi has some tips on managing the moisture down under....
Man Bag It’s actually classified as an organ, and it’s our biggest one. On average it contains more than 11 miles of blood vessels (providing oxygen and blood to the skin cells), weighs nine pounds (15 percent of the total body weight), spans 21 square feet and...
Over-Sweating Is a Common Problem “Some people sweat more than is required to keep their body temperature controlled. When that reaches a certain level, that’s known as hyperhidrosis. We estimate at least 1 percent of people in the U.K. suffer with it—these people don’t have more or...
What kind of stuff do you have to deal with after a festival? Jewellery, phones, money, drugs, camping gear and alcohol are lost and abandoned in the festering aftermath and it is all found: Hundreds of litter pickers stand shoulder-to-shoulder and walk every inch of the site...
The shortest answer to this question is: Nothing good, unless you wish to be featured in the Guinness World Records and/or the nightmares of small children. Just ask Lee Redmond, who grew her fingernails out to a record-shattering combined length of 28 feet, four inches. Admirable though...
We’ve all done the pee dance—when you have to go so badly you can’t help but do a weird little dance to hold it in until you reach the toilet. But does bobbing up and down and gyrating actually minimise that feeling of a soon-to-burst bladder? Dr....
Most of us wake up in the morning and proceed to wipe away our eye gunk without stopping to think: What is this stuff? Where does it come from? And why does it mostly only come about when we’re asleep? Dr. Andrea Thau, optometrist and president of...
The human body is capable of expelling various offensive aromas (something we’re all unfortunately extremely familiar with). But which of the two most prevalent stenches is the most unpleasant: Body odour or bad breath? Let’s take a scientific look to crown the officially nose-wrinkling king of stink....
