Your Bones Are Alive and Constantly Rebuilding

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]Everything you learned about bones in school was wrong. They are not hard dead structures. They are living tissue constantly broken down and rebuilt.

[00:00:08]Every day osteoclast dissolve old bone while osteoblast build fresh material in its place. Your entire skeleton is replaced roughly every 10 years. Your bones also produce hormones that regulate your metabolism and influence your brain. They are not scaffolding.

[00:00:25]They are organs. Save this if you never knew.