GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -“Your skin sheds 50, 000 cells every minute. Over a lifetime, that piles up to 40 pounds (18.1 kilograms) of skin.”

Detailed explanation-2: -Charles Weschler and colleagues explain that humans shed their entire outer layer of skin every 2-4 weeks at the rate of 0.001 – 0.003 ounces of skin flakes every hour.

Detailed explanation-3: -Humans lose 200, 000, 000 skin cells every hour. During a 24-hour period, a person loses almost five thousand million skin cells.