What I learnt last week 2 #ulog - How the digestive system works, All about bluetooth, The Brain Capacity, Causes of Forgetfulness, Chewing gum for brain enhancement
Last week as been a very great week for me because i was soak in science and making lots of research about science. So without wasting much time let's see what i got to share.
Monday: How the Digestive system works.
The study about digestion and the digestive system itself actually came up while having my break fast last week Monday. The fact that am not concentrated on the food made me made me realize that foods doesn't get into your stomach immediately after swallowing but actually take 5 - 8 seconds. Depending on the kind of food you are eating. Seeing this fact made me feel awesome and gave me interest to study more about digestion.
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Firstly, digestion start from the mouth by the action of saliva of food and chewing them down into bolus(chewed food particles). Which action of saliva helps in breaking down part of the starch into maltose and making it easier to swallow (traveling down the esophagus for seven seconds).
On getting to the stomach, an acid (gastric acid) act on the bolus then react straight at the protenious part of the food then breaking down the long chain of amino acid. Then it is passed into the small intestine with a new name called chyme.
Pancreatic juice from the pancreas and bile from the liver act on the chyme for complete digestion. Then water and other vitamin will move into the blood stream though the small intestine cell walls and other waste produce left will be passed to the large intestine and uses 33 - 47 hours there before it will be ask to be force out of the body.
You can as well see full article and all references HERE .
Tuesday: All about Bluetooth.
The study about Bluetooth Sparked up in my head when i went to visit my friend @planetmarketers. After some minute when we started discussing, we started talking about new wireless invention. As soon as we are concluding, i said "very soon we will no longer have Bluetooth". He hearing this, he said nah and he started telling me some fact about Bluetooth and also telling me the latest Bluetooth invention. So all this things he said stun me alot and have no choice than to make research to confirm all he have said. Then at the end of the day, i can boost of knowing all this below.
Bluetooth was invented by a swedes named Nils Rydbeck in 1989 by developing a short radio frequency in Ericsson Mobile with the purpose to create wireless mobile phones.
The technology was named Bluetooth has a tribute to a Danish king Harald Blatand because his tooth alomost turn blue because he eats blueberries alot and he his also known for the uniting Sweden, Norway and Denmark from their fragment.
But the fact that Bluetooth is a uniting technology makes Nils Rydbeck recall back to king Harald Blatand wonders.
The logo of the technology(Bluetooth) was also coined from his name (H and B).
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Bluetooth operate at a short range frequency of 2402 and 2480 MHz making it the lowest battery consumption wireless communication and also easy to install on any device for it low cost on microchip.
Applications built on the Bluetooth technology
- Handsfree headset
- Car stereo system - Communication with mobile phone
- Wireless Mouse
- Wireless keyboard
- Wireless Portable Speakers
- Wireless game controllers (play station)
- Wireless Telehealth Devices
- Wireless Alarms (For theft detection).
and so on
Wednessday: The brain capacity
The human brain is nothing compared to any device on earth in terms of storage, perfection and power. Researchers even show and prove that for a computer to run like our brain, it will require 1 gigawatt power (a whole power station) which our brain just run with 20 watt.
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Without wasting much time, researchers(Neurologists) has prove that an adult brain can hold informations up to 2.5 petabyte which is capable of holding about 3 millions hours of movie i.e running your tv for three hundred years.
It is even said that the major storage is the cerebral cortex holding about 74 terabyte while the other storage are spread across the brain.
To know more about the brain capacity, references, what brought about the research and even the calculations check out one of my previous post Here
Thursday: Causes of Forgetfulness
One of the main disadvantage of most wireless devices, mobile phone, pc, mifi and other devices wireless devices around us is their interaction with our brain.
Most of this devices radiate that is they emit rays spontaneously which affect our brain storage and causes easy forgetfulness.
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Me being a witness of forgetfulness made me look for means to stop forgetfulness going on within me and this made me realise other causes of forgetfulness which are listed below.
1. Lack of Sleep - Naturally, the body need rest most especially the brain. But if the brain is not allow to rest and it is over use, the brain will have to let go of some informations (Not deleting) in other to be comfortable. So when you sleep less or not sleep at all, you are likely to experience forgetfulness as well
2. Underactive Thyroid - This underactive thyroid doesn't cause forgetfullness directly by affects sleep that is not making you sleep.
3. Depression - In the psychological realm forgetfulness can also be cause as a result of depression eg making decisions, hungry, scared, feeling tired, restlessness, scared, sick, multitasking and other form of depression
To read more and view all sources check mt last post Here
Friday: Chew gum for brain enhancement
Researchers has found out that your gum actually enhances your mood, anxiety, appetite, alertness and even boost your memory; But only when your gum are in good condition.
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Researchers also find out that those who chew gum while writing a test, exam or even in an interview have a lot of chances to pass because their gum is in the right condition and their brain is on a boosted level.
So therefore, a shortcut to solve forgetfulness is just to chew gum and put your jaw in nice condition.
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Chewing gums enhances the brain activities? I know a sister who must be guru now if the claim is true... Well, i will not doubt, it is not my duty to. I leave that for another day.
However, thank you very much for the informative post. Kudos.
I was about asking this same question you know?
Well it differs from people probably the person you know would have being dumber but the chewing gum make her dumb
Or continuous chewing without rest can wear your brain out.
Thanks for the coming around.