Human Body Systems Functions Overview: The 11 Champions (Older Video 2016)

[Music] have you ever heard the phrase I know this like the back of my hand well it might make you question do you really know the back of your hand because if you really look at your hand you see your skin but it's also what you can't see underneath that's pretty incredible you can't see the millions of

cells that make up your hand at least not without a microscope we take these cells for granted sometimes but your body is made up of millions of cells cells that work together cells that are very organized with specific functions cells that carry your whole DNA code but use specific parts of your DNA code

depending on the cell's function your cells make up body tissues tissues make up organs like your heart for example and organs are part of an organ system like your circulatory system organ systems are so important for you to understand in order to know how your body works and one thing to keep in mind is that organ systems they

don't work in isolation they are not loners no they work together and they're part of a big team so we're going to intro the 11 major organ systems now keep in mind this is just a quick intro so we're doing the Bare Bones no pun intended of the systems and because they are all important it's kind of hard to

know where to start so we're going to go in alphabetical order because we don't want you to think that one system is way more important than another first the circulatory system you think of blood and you should because blood carries gases Like Oxygen what your body needs and helps remove carbon dioxide which

your body needs to expel your blood also transports nutrients that your body needs your heart is included in the system it's a pumping machine that transports the blood around arteries are vessels that typically carry blood away from the heart think a for away and veins typically carry blood back to the heart and capillaries are