Organs you don't need By Katherine Lightwood

Organs you don't need

By Katherine Lightwood

The human boy is an incredibly complex machine made up of systems of organs all working together to keep things humming along smoothly. So, you would think that talking anything out would make the whole thing break down.

But of course, lots of people live without some of their organs. Like you're better off without an appendix if it's giving you a problem, for example. And you can afford to lose all kinds of more important organs like a giant chunk of your liver or an entire lung. Because your body is a finely tuned machine. If you don't mind me saying so. But it also had a bunch of redundancies that allow it to adapt to some pretty extreme changes.

So, here are some few bits that you can live without.
And guess what... My number one in this checklist is 'the brain'. Of all the organs in the human body to lose, even partially, you would probably think that the brain is a total deal breaker. I mean it controls or coordinates basically everything else.

But it turns out that sometimes it's better to live with just one hemisphere- or in other words (half a brain). Like when people have kind of epilepsy where seizures stem from one side of the brain. This might happen with some rare brain disorders or some rare condition when one hemisphere is abnormally huge. One-sided seizures are often difficult to treat, and they can be debilitating.

So sometimes a doctor recommend a Hemispherectomy: the removal of some parts of the brain that is affected. Although it's an extremely rare surgery, and if it is successful then it can give a fairly normal life to the patients.

But the idea that you can lose half of your brain and still be alive at all is pretty incredible- and mind-blowing. And like this, we can survive without even vital organs like a lung (but you will need one lung at least), stomach, spleen, liver, gallbladder, kidney (only one). So, if these don't surprise you then I don't know what else could surprise you. 

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Katherine Lightwood