Interesting Facts About Your Body

One Hour of massage has the physiological effect of increasing blood flow without increasing heart rate. The blood flow equates to walking for 30 minutes while the heart gets a vacation. This is very vitalizing to the average body.
Plantaris is a small muscle behind the knee that is absent in nearly 19% of the population and varies greatly in size.
There is enough iron in the human body to make one small nail.
A fatigued muscle recuperates 20 percent after 5 minutes of rest and 100 percent after 5 minutes of massage.
Your soleus muscle is deep to the gastrocnemius muscle in the calf and is called the “second heart” because of the important role its strong contractions play in returning blood from the leg to the heart.
It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.