We are actually made of mucus
An excerpt from The Unseen Body: A Doctor’s Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy.
Everybody learns in grade school that the human body is composed mostly of water—roughly 60 percent in adults goes the statistic. I learned this fact as a child and understood that humans share their aqueous makeup with all other organisms. I imagined living things as …


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