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Half your body's atoms may change within a year

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You are a ship of Theseus made of meat. Due to constant metabolic turnover, approximately fifty percent of the atoms currently making up your physical form will be ejected and replaced with entirely new ones within a year. You are constantly dissolving and rebuilding yourself without noticing.

Half your body's atoms may change within a year
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