Nervous System
The 2 (or 3) responses your nervous system might have when faced with a threat
What is "fight or flight" (or freeze)?
The word for "involving little exercise or physical activity"
What is sedentary?
A period of time when someone doesn't eat or drink
What is fasting?
Our biggest organ
What is skin?
The 6th sense (sensing where your body is in space)
What is proprioception?
The name of the cells that send messages in your brain.
What are neurons?
The other main cardiovascular event besides a heart attack.
What is a stroke?
When the immune system sees a food as toxic.
What is an allergy?
A disease that kills over half a million people every year, transmitted by mosquitos.
What is malaria?
The sense that is know to trigger strong emotions
What is smell?
Every year there are millions of new cases of this disease that affect memory, thinking, and the ability to perform daily activities.
What is dementia?
A symptom climbers might get at high altitudes where there's not enough oxygen.
What is brain fog? (or headaches)
The collection of germs benefited by eating fermented food, playing in the dirt, etc. and hurt by pesticides and taking too many medications.
The origin of many of the world's most lethal outbreaks (like the bubonic plague, swine flu, zika, COVID-19).
A condition that affects 2.2 billion people worldwide
What is visual impairment?
The name for an artificial limb (like Jason's new hand)
What is a prosthetic?
The "love hormone" that's released even by short touch such as a hug or a dance
What is oxytocin?
What is glucose?
Left over chemicals from infections we’ve fought throughout our lives.
What are antibodies?
The only temporary organ
What is the placenta?
A disease caused by a toxic infecting a person's nervous system causing muscle spasms and eventually death.
What is tetanus?
The amount of time your body can go without oxygen
What is 3 minutes?
The name for waste our bodies gets rid of.
What is feces? (or fecal matter)
Grape-like bunches of immune cells are little filters that cleanse our internal environment. (Your doctor might touch them on the side of your neck)
What are your lymph nodes?
What is 40 weeks?