A story shared by Dr. Bo Shining, the director of the Intensive Care Unit at Peking University Third Hospital, went viral on TikTok. (Check the VDO at the end of Article)
A few years ago, Dr. Bo treated a critically ill patient. This patient was severely injured, with almost his entire body affected. He suffered massive bleeding, which led to a rapid consumption of clotting factors and quickly entered a state of multiple organ failure and coagulation dysfunction. Every puncture and wound on his body was oozing blood. Each second, he was at risk of shock.
The doctor emphasized the term "oozing blood." He explained that if it was vascular bleeding, he could stop it surgically. But if it was internal oozing, all he could do was transfuse blood.
He vividly remembers that night, desperately transfusing blood, clotting substances, and administering vasopressors to the patient. But ultimately, the patient's condition continued to deteriorate. As the last drop of blood was transfused, the patient's heart rate kept increasing, his blood pressure dropped further, and his body was completely out of control.
The doctor was utterly desperate and mentally prepared for the worst.
Then, something miraculous happened. When the patient's blood pressure dropped to 60-70, suddenly, all his bleeding stopped in an instant.
Why did the massive bleeding suddenly stop?
The doctor later realized that this was the body's protective mechanism.
When severe bleeding occurs, blood pressure drops rapidly to slow down the bleeding rate and protect the body, directing the limited blood flow to the brain and heart.
Our body is incredibly intelligent, lowering blood pressure to reduce bleeding while ensuring the brain and heart receive blood.
Once the blood pressure drops to a certain level, the clotting function catches up, stopping the massive bleeding. The patient was successfully saved.
In this rescue operation, doctors played a crucial role, but the real life-saving force was the patient's own body.
In the end, the doctor profoundly stated,
"We are often taught to strive and overcome difficulties in times of crisis. But you may not realize that your body, your cells, work harder than you."
Our bodies experience the death of approximately 330 billion cells daily, but they also regenerate 330 billion new ones.
In critical moments, all these cells fight desperately for you until the very last moment.
Even if you give up on yourself, your body won't.
The doctor's thought-provoking words received over a million likes on TikTok, with more than 10 million views, moving countless people to tears.
One particularly touching comment in the video garnered 58,000 likes: "Your body loves you more than you do." Yes, your body loves you more than you do. When you indulge yourself, mistreat yourself, or think no one in the world loves you, remember that your body loves you more.
Various medical indications show that your body is stronger than you think, even if you don't realize it.
You might not know that a pregnant woman's clotting indicators in her blood increase by dozens of times in the days leading up to delivery to prevent potential massive bleeding during childbirth.
You might not know that you have five chances of getting cancer every day. Each person experiences 1 to 5 cells turning cancerous daily, but every time, other cells in your body kill the cancer cells, saving you.
You might not know that even if two-thirds of your liver is removed, it can grow back to its original size. The liver is the only organ in the human body that can regenerate.
You might not know that your stomach acid is so strong it can dissolve a steel blade. But miraculously, your stomach secretes a mucus to protect itself from being digested.
You might not know that when the main part of your heart can't beat, the atrioventricular node starts to beat for it. When the atrioventricular node fails, your heart's ventricles will begin to beat autonomously. Although the resulting electrocardiogram looks terrible and the blood flow is very weak, this weak flow still ensures blood supply to the brain and heart, keeping you alive until help arrives.
You might not know that in one second, or while you read this sentence, your body has already produced one million red blood cells. These cells race around your body, traveling through blood vessels, maintaining your life, delivering oxygen to your cells, and quietly dying after completing their task.
You might not know that it's tough to kill yourself using various means, such as holding your breath, keeping your eyes open, or choking yourself. Each attempt triggers the body's powerful protective instincts, which you cannot override.
You might not know that over your lifetime, your heart will pump about 182 million liters of blood and beat 2.5 billion times. Your eyes will blink 415 million times and produce 68.75946 liters of tears. Your nose will remember 50,000 scents. If your lungs were spread out, they could cover a tennis court, and the airways in your lungs could stretch from London to Moscow. The total length of your blood vessels can circle the earth two and a half times. The most profound part is your DNA. Each of your cells contains over a meter of DNA. If you stretched all the DNA in your body into a thin line, it would extend 10 billion miles, farther than the distance from Earth to Pluto. On a grander scale, you are the universe of your body. Each cell in your body works independently but together forms you, a vast universe. Think about it; we were once the universe for these cells. We are their only trusted and cooperative partners. What reason do we have to belittle ourselves?
Ultimately, all this is to convey one truth: your body loves you so much that we must give back to it. We need to learn to "look inward" and truly love ourselves.
I once watched a tear-jerking video: when a person is on the verge of death, the brain sends out the final command, distributing the last 5% of adrenaline to the nervous system and vocal cords to say their last words, and the brain bids farewell to other organs one last time.
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