Have you ever thought about what your body is doing 24/7 while you are not thinking about it?

Your heart keeps on ticking, pushing your blood everywhere it is supposed to go….assuming you don’t have vascular problems.

Muscles keep your lungs pulling in good air and pushing out the bad. Your lungs then exchange the good for the bad in your blood. Hopefully you are not fouling your lungs by smoking.

Your stomach goes about its business breaking down whatever you send it and delivering the products of its efforts to places that deal with them. The intestines do their thing with the solid stuff your stomach sends their way until you need to find a place to deposit it.

In your intestines are millions and millions of bacteria and small organisms doing their happy dances while the solid stuff is on its way to discharge. Some of these happy dances result in gasses that can be either embarrassing or fun to gross out others.

Your kidneys deal with the liquid you ingest by taking out what your body needs and sending the rest on its way when you get a chance to get rid of it. Hopefully you don’t get kidney stones, they are painful to get rid of. Also, don’t drink too much alcohol…your kidneys don’t like it and you could die.

You have glands that secrete fluids to regulate some body functions like keeping your eyes inflated to the proper shape, sweat to help keep you cool when it feels too hot, and other important stuff. Sometimes sweat is stinky and embarrassing.

Your brain tries its best to regulate all that is going on so you don’t have to pay attention. At the same time it is trying to manage your conscience thoughts. Sometimes it gets things mixed up and you make a mistake or a fool of yourself.

Then there are those stupid reactions that happen involuntarily when you see or interact with a person of the opposite sex. Or with some it occurs between people of the same sex. Again this can be wanted and exciting, very embarrassing, or dangerous.

Your fingernails and toenails continue growing from birth to death. I guess that is so when you hit your thumb with a hammer you get a new one. It’s probably a vestige of ancient human history when we wore them out grubbing around for something to eat.

Your hair continues to grow all your life…that is, for most people it does. Some men’s head hair quits growing and falls out, resulting in others making mocking remarks like “chrome dome” and “you look like a bowling ball.” All men’s and women’s hair turns gray and then silver as they age, some faster than others. Some men get the nick name “silver fox” if they are sexy, but others simply turn out unattractive.

Most men and some women shave their facial hair, but not all. There are stubble beards, well-trimmed beards, and then there is ZZ Top. Also men’s nose and ear hair seems to grow faster as they age. I don’t know if that is true for women.

Aren’t human body functions amazing?

Ken Kaiyala
12-29-2021