If you have seen some acrobats perform, you will be amazed by the flexibility of their bodies, and each of their movements is like there is no bone. So, if all humans have no bones, will we still be as free as acrobats?
Without bones, what changes will happen to our lives? Under normal circumstances, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets cannot be produced without bones. Because most people have three days of normal body metabolism, and a small part of them are seven days, this means that many people will die in three to seven days. The assumptions in this article are based on the situation where the body functions are intact and only the bones are lost.
1. You can’t take care of yourself in your life
If we have no bones, we will be affected in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation. First of all, "eating". Food is the most important thing for people. Eating without bones becomes a big problem, because our lower forehead bones disappear, and cannot use teeth to bite food into , so we can no longer feel the pleasure of chewing delicious food. So we can only use straws or drink some liquid food when eating.
Because you can’t use your strength, excretion becomes the most painful thing every day. Urination can also be discharged through the urethra, but hard stool will make people lose their self-esteem and may use adult diapers frequently. Even under the circumstances at that time, all our daily lives depended on robots, and they might be more suitable to be the masters of this world.
Our skeletal system is composed of bones, ligaments and cartilage. Although it is just a framework that supports our body, it can actually store and release energy to balance our body structure. Once we lose the support of our bones, we may become a pool of mud and a walking dead like the slimes in the animation.
2. Health is threatened
Our new life is not as good as expected. After all, we cannot move, we can only rely on external forces. You can finally live a leisurely life of lying on the bed every day, but is this what you want? When you hear this, you may feel a chill on your forehead and sigh, but be careful, if you don’t have bones, you can’t sigh too hard! Because we don’t have a chest cavity, the lungs inside cannot work properly.
In order to prevent us from suffocating to death due to crazy breathing, we must rely on a ventilator to maintain even breathing. Because the respiratory tract is open, over time, we will be invaded by more bacteria, which will infect the respiratory tract and more bacteria in the lungs will become more and more. . Common colds that everyone usually have can even become major diseases. To prevent various diseases, we need to supplement more vitamins. But this is in a dilemma of not being able to chew. After repeated cycles, our lives are actually no different from those of paralyzed patients.
Is there no benefit at all without bones?
That's not either. If there is no bone, you will not have any bone-related diseases , such as osteomyelitis . And you no longer have to worry about fractures when playing ball. First of all, you don’t have bones, will not fracture , and secondly, you can’t play ball. Plaster is completely gone from the world.
Bones actually evolved. So if we had not evolved bones at first, what would our lives look like? will mean that we are still living in the ocean, and our lives are probably like jellyfish or have evolved exoskeletons. If has an exoskeleton, it means that we still need to molt after living for a period of time.
exoskeleton gradually becomes bigger and harder as it grows. Of course, every time it molts, it is life-threatening. Moreover, as the bones disappear, our lifespan will gradually shorten, because at this time the important organs in the body are also easily damaged. The brain will become very fragile, and the brain will be damaged mainly, and people will be cold. It can be seen that bones play a huge role in our current human form. The benefits of losing bones are insignificant in the face of the disadvantages.
Bones are evolving
Our bones will also continue to grow with age.It actually also undergoes some strange changes. Some people in will feel a spike bulge on the back of their heads. This place is called spinous process . In fact, this situation was relatively rare in . In 1885, scientists began to study where this skull came from. In fact, this is because our society is constantly developing. We usually need to arch our bodies when working. Reading books, computers, and playing with electronic devices will cause greater pressure on our necks. At this time, the bulge of evolved can help the skull relieve additional pressure and disperse the weight.
Europeans and Americans have 2 more bones than Asians do you know? In fact, our ancestors had at most more than 300 bones, but with the continuous development of society, human walking methods have also undergone major changes. After changing from crawling to standing walking, the bones have evolved accordingly. We usually think that today's human body has 206 bones. But in fact, East Asians generally only have 204 yuan. Where did the two bones that were lost go?
The mainstream view is that these two bones are mainly on phalanx or hip . The tympanic bones of European have three sections, while we Asians have two sections, one less on each of the left and right feet. This is because Europeans and Americans have larger bones and weight, and they bear more weight than us. One more phalanx can increase the body's ability to withstand. Hip is used to connect the waist and pelvic bones. It consists of three parts, and as Asians grow, these three bones will merge together. But Europeans and Americans have not changed.
No matter where they have two more bones than us, this is because of the different living environment and lifestyle, which leads to differences in the evolution of the same kind of organisms.
Healthy bones are very important
Our bones are actually very hard. Some studies on the actual strength of bones show that bones can withstand more than 40 times the pressure than concrete, and the hands and feet can tolerate greater pressure than simple bones.
If the hardness of steel is seven to eight, the hardest human bones can reach about four to five , but the hardness of the bones is determined by the content of inorganic substances. Both age and gender affect the hardness of human bones. For example, young children's bones are very soft, easily deformed but not easily fractured. The elderly have fewer organic matter in their bones and are more likely to fracture. A tough bone can ensure our normal life.
Of course, not everyone has healthy bones. There is also a rare hereditary disease called hypophosphataseemia. There will be about one patient in every 100,000 people. This is a disease that causes bones to disappear. It makes the patient's bones very fragile and often fractures occur in daily life.
Of course, scientists are also studying therapies of this special enzyme to help these bones grow back slowly and heal. Therefore, bones are very important. We can’t live long without bones. We must pay attention to the health of our bones in our daily lives.
