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Does the body replace itself?

Stuff You Should Know

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You Know, You're Regenerating 95 % of Yourself Every Year

It was a long standing rumour, and it was actually based on science. Back of the envelope estimate is that we regenerate 95 or 98 % of ourselves every year. Early experimentation by injecting radioactive isotopes into human beings led to this idea called pulse labelling. Yeit's like tagging an animal in the wild, basically, right? But you're just tagging a cell, yes, specific types of cells. Yes. They don't do that to humans any more. No, they do very animals. And thing is a very dumb thing to do, sure, ejecting radiation, exactly. Unless, of course,youno, it's radiation treatment,. which is still a really weird

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