Fangirl extraordinaire
All-around ridiculous human being

I like:
All of the comic books
Homestuck
Teen Wolf
Sherlock
Harry Potter
Doctor Who
Reading
Random science
Fandom in general
Everything ever

to an obsessive degree.

Friends?

 

Raven: This is who you were meant to be, Hank. This is you.

Erik: Never looked better, man.

Aleena: Are you going to tell him to walk around naked too?

I was listening to break-up songs and reading fic, as you do…

And after a string of perfectly acceptable angst-ridden songs, Forget/Fuck You suddenly comes on. So my question is, where is the XMFC video to this? Because I can’t be the only one with an absolutely atrocious sense of humor.

professor-xrated:


Well, not exactly. It so happens that the various tissues present in one’s body undergo cell replacement at different rates, so it really is rather contentious to say such a thing - especially since the above statement gives the impression that we spontaneously regenerate - rest assured that the average human being would never undergo such a miraculous change. In fact, there are certain tissues that never replace cells at all - the neurons in the cerebral cortex, for instance, are permanently irreplaceable after birth. Cardiomyocyte heart cells,however, are replaced as a gradually reducing rate as we age, averaging at perhaps 1% per year at the peak of our youth, and gradually reducing to half the rate by age 70 - but even so, that would mean that the average person would have had less than halftheir cardiomyocyte cells replaced in their entire lifespan. But of course, the cell replacement rates for a mutant could be a completely different story…
There is one particular type of tissue that undergoes full cycle of cell replacement in approximately seven years, though - fat cells have a replacement rate of about 10%. So I suppose you could amend the statement to say ‘Every seven to ten years, our bodies undergo a full replacement of every fat cell. Every seven to ten years, our fats disappear.’
…It does make for a different atmosphere, however.  

XD
This blog is so many things that I love all wrapped into one; I can barely contain myself.

professor-xrated:

Well, not exactly. It so happens that the various tissues present in one’s body undergo cell replacement at different rates, so it really is rather contentious to say such a thing - especially since the above statement gives the impression that we spontaneously regenerate - rest assured that the average human being would never undergo such a miraculous change. In fact, there are certain tissues that never replace cells at all - the neurons in the cerebral cortex, for instance, are permanently irreplaceable after birth. Cardiomyocyte heart cells,however, are replaced as a gradually reducing rate as we age, averaging at perhaps 1% per year at the peak of our youth, and gradually reducing to half the rate by age 70 - but even so, that would mean that the average person would have had less than halftheir cardiomyocyte cells replaced in their entire lifespan. But of course, the cell replacement rates for a mutant could be a completely different story…

There is one particular type of tissue that undergoes full cycle of cell replacement in approximately seven years, though - fat cells have a replacement rate of about 10%. So I suppose you could amend the statement to say ‘Every seven to ten years, our bodies undergo a full replacement of every fat cell. Every seven to ten years, our fats disappear.’

…It does make for a different atmosphere, however.  

XD

This blog is so many things that I love all wrapped into one; I can barely contain myself.

(Source: princass)