🔬 Sciencepublished 2w ago
Your body rebuilds your entire skeleton roughly every ten years
Your bones might seem like permanent, rigid scaffolding, but bone is dynamic living tissue. Specialized cells called osteoclasts constantly dissolve old, micro-damaged bone, while osteoblasts lay down fresh mineralized tissue. Through this continuous remodeling process, your body replaces roughly ten percent of its adult bone mass every year. As a result, you walk around with an entirely refreshed skeleton roughly every ten years.
Sources
✨ Sparklet is a feed of fact-checked learning cards like this one.
Join free — start your streak