21 Interesting Facts about Your Brain (and You Might Not Know About It)

They say that among the many organs in your body, your brain is said to be the most complex. It could be partly true because as of now, we can’t still understand why the brain works the way it do and there are still a lot of things undiscovered concerning the brain.

What you might know is this: your brain is responsible to making you feel hungry, angry, stressed, happy, and anxious. It’s even working while you’re sleeping. It tells you not to forget to breathe and sends you pain signals whenever you’re hurt. You just don’t know how much your brain works and sometimes you just get so careless believing brain health is not something that you have to care about. Well, let me tell you a secret: you can always have a heart, liver or kidney transplant but if you ever damage your brain and wants it replaced, it can never be done.

So if you want to know more about your mental health and how your brain works, here are interesting facts to know about your brain:

1. Although your brain is only 3 pounds on average, it consumes 20% of your oxygen supply.
2. Blind people also dream. True, your brain makes it all possible. There are sleep cycles where everyone has the capacity to dream around 5-12 times at night. Normal people dream of something they thought about earlier, others dream in black and white while blind people dream as well, not just the way normal seeing people dream.
3. Do you have any idea why when someone accidentally cuts their finger and you saw it, that part of your finger flinches too? That’s because of mirror neurons. The same pain area in your brain is activated causing you to flinch and feel empathic towards the person.
4. Every 90 to 120 minutes your brain switches over from the left to the right side. Forget about being left-brained or right-brained, you’re both.
5. Faster than a race car, 260 mph is the slowest speed it takes for information to pass around and into your brain.
6. Female brains are more prone to mood and/or emotional disorders while men are more prone to language disabilities and hyperactivity disorders.
7. If you want to make your brain healthy to make your body healthy too, laugh hard and for free. Research has it that simply chuckling reduces your stress hormones like cortisol, lowers your blood pressure, lessens your risks of stroke and even relieves you of having a heart attack. If you can’t laugh right now, just listen to a baby laugh. The reason why laughing is contagious is that your mirror neurons are there for you.
8. If you’ll wire the path of blood vessels constantly travelling in your brain, you’ll end up circling the Earth four times over with a hundred thousand of miles.
9. Meditation has been proven to help you ease anxiety, stress and depression. Why, reconstructing negative events and looking at them positively rewires your brain in its simplest sense making you happier.
10. On average, your brain can have 70,000 thoughts a day even when you say you can’t think clearly. So don’t lose those 70,000 thoughts or half of it on depressing feelings.
11. Physiologically, men’s brains are 10% larger than women. But far from the myth that it makes guys smarter than girls, it’s actually more responsible for the differences of men and women’s body.
12. Pumping oxygen into your brain keeps it cool. Ever wonder why when it’s hot you feel irritated and why when you exercise, breath better and relax you feel better? That’s because your brain works like a computer. It works at its best when it’s not too hot. Exercises like stretching or simply breathing in and out helps pump oxygen into your brain making you perform your work better.
13. The average human brain has 1.1 trillion cells and 100 billion nerve cells or neurons.
14. The best foods for your brains are rich in choline (found in eggs and other similar foods) which lessens fatigue, increases awareness and keep your alert, omega-3 fatty acids (found in salmon, tuna, sardine and nuts) and carbohydrates (found in wheat bread and oatmeal) which helps increase your intellectual performance. They relieve you of stress hormones too.
15. The more you have a thought, the more it makes a physical pathway to your brain thus making it easier for you to remember it easily.
16. When you help people in need, give to charity or simply have a good feeling about yourself, your pleasure center or nucleus accumbens is activated releasing the pleasure and love hormones dopamine and serotonin.
17. When you’re awake and moving, your brain can generate enough electricity to power a light bulb. The constant information processing your brain does generates about 10-23 watts of power; enough to power a dim light bulb.
18. While you’ve live up to the myth of using only 10% of your brain however hard you try, you are actually using 100% of it. Sleeping cannot even deter you from using all of the faculties of your brain. How much more when you’re awake, alert and moving?
19. You can constantly change yourself because your brain is continuously rewiring itself for change. So if you’re a pessimist and people are telling you to have a positive outlook in life, believe them because your brain can still change for the better.
20. Your brain is made up of 75% water.
21. Your brain is responsible to making you feel but the brain itself has no pain receptors. If it’s possible, you can poke on your brain, slice it and still feel nothing.

So it seems that your brain controls every other function in your body, but it can only be controlled by you. You know it already and all people know it. The brain is a complex organ. And it can be the most powerful too. But when it comes to thinking big and doing big, you are your brain’s boss and only you have the power to change it to make for a better you.

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