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It is an urban myth. A lot of your body's cells are around for much longer than 7 years, and they do not recycle all of their constituent atoms.



Well I haven't found anything to disprove it. And from the perpective of the post it's doesn't take anything away even if it's 10 instead of 7


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Edit: you removed the post or what happened?

I am well aware of that, but simply claiming it's an urban myth is not the same as proving it's wrong. I have provided the links I could find, take that for what you want.

It doesn't take a hundred or even 50 years why do you think the body fall apart over time. If the body was static we wouldn't die let a lone grow up to die.

It is a fact that the human body is in flux and not stable it is also a fact that your cells most of them die out pretty fast which is why we have to eat and drink. And that is what matters. The you today isn't the same you as 7 years ago.


I did not remove any post.

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2005-08/1123273958.Bc.r...

The cells in the body do turn over, but not uniformly every 7 years. Some things are as old as you are. The atoms in your skeleton get replaced every 7 tears, but these aren't the most permanent things in your body.




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