Soap Bubbles and Your Body
Soap Bubbles Hold Clues to Good Health and Longevity
How does a mixture of soap and water form an almost perfect sphere? We didn’t design it, mold it, or tell it what to do, so it must be something in those ingredients that causes it to naturally make a bubble?
The answer is, one part of a soap molecule is attracted to water, while another part avoids it. This causes them to self-assemble into the thin walls of a bubble.
Remarkably, every cell in our body has a kind of bubble around it. Its called a membrane.
Inside our bodies each of us has about 30 trillion cells, and many contain thousands of little organs. We call them ‘organelles’, and almost all of them need their own membranes to define spaces where they can do their work. I'm guessing there may be in the range of 30 quadrillion bubble membranes in our bodies.
Good health requires a lot of bubbles and the maintenance of them!
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