Health Fact April 2011

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Goofy Health Fact


“Although the brain constitutes only 2 percent of our body mass, it uses 20 percent of the oxygen,” says Istvan Molnar-Szakacs, Ph.D., of the Semel Institute’s Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity at UCLA

This means that your brain uses up around 1/5th of your total oxygen intake.

So…how smart is holding your breath? (I know…bad joke…but I had to.)  ~ Patrick

 

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