• Question: Does the human body shed 600 000 particular skin every hour?.

    Asked by you cant see me to Andy, Duane, Giovanna, Katie, Theresia on 17 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Duane Mellor

      Duane Mellor answered on 17 Nov 2014:


      Possibly, I am not completely sure it sounds about right

    • Photo: Andrew Philp

      Andrew Philp answered on 18 Nov 2014:


      I’m not sure of the exact number, but turnover certainly is very high

    • Photo: Giovanna Bermano

      Giovanna Bermano answered on 18 Nov 2014:


      A huge amount, I would say…. considering that the skin makes up about 16% of the body weight and there are about 10 trillion cells in the body….

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