Spontaneous Human Combustion
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Is Norepinefrin a Mass Cell Mediator?
The average obese adult has 70 billion adipos or fat cells. Adapose tissue is a known massed cell reservoir. There are about one to two thousand mito condria per adult animal cell. And it is the mitocondria that are the source of heat in your body. The average cell is capable of producing five nanawas of heat under ordinary circumstances. So if i'm doing the math, the human body can produce 250 wats of heat per second.
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Every so often, there are reports of people bursting into flames for no apparent reason, reducing most of their body to ashes, but with little or no fire damage around them. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss what we should make of these reports of spontaneous human combustion and what could be causing them.
