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A blog from Schubbe Resch Chiropractic and Physical Therapy.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Common Myth #6: Your skin cells are replaced every seven years.

The Myth: 

Your skin cells are replaced every seven years.

The Truth: 

If this were true, we wouldn't age!  The truth is that our body's cells do grow old and die.  When this happens, new cells replace the old cells.  Cells live and die on different time tables.  For instance, blood cells live for about 120 days, while skin cells live about 35 days.  So our whole body does not regenerate on a seven year time frame, but new cells replace old cells every day.

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