I have heard the human body is anywhere between 50% and 99% water

[shortylickens]

depending on the source of the data.


What percentage are we currently accepting as fact?

 

[Fardringle]

https://water.usgs.gov/edu/propertyyou.html

 

[sm625]

It is somewhat variable. If you weigh 180 pounds, all you need to do is drink one 16 oz bottle of water and you increase your water content by about 1%.

 

[agent00f]

depending on the source of the data.


What percentage are we currently accepting as fact?

This isn't really a question about humans as it is about cellular life. Water is integral to cell functionality (when they had you look at them under a microscope the little bits and bobs moving around are floating in the liquid), and the total percentage is based on cellular composition of your human anatomical parts.

 

[pcgeek11]

https://www.waterinfo.org/resources/water-facts

WATER AND HUMANS. * The human body is more than 60 percent water. Blood is 92 percent water, the brain and muscles are 75 percent water, and bones are about 22 percent water. * A human can survive for a month or more without eating food, but only a week or so without drinking water.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Not sure where you got the 99 percent from as that's so blatantly wrong, but typical is what 60-70 percent? There's a range because it varies based on hydration and other issues (haven't really checked to see if women tending to average a higher water content is scientifically valid). Hmm, well that first link would seem to indicate I have it reversed, so now I don't know if its one of those things that at some point my mind got switched up (Berenstein/Berenstain Bears) and is now impossible for me to accept that it was different from what solidified as the reality in my mind, or if I did truly learn it as women having higher water content. I'm quite willing to change based on the observed objective consensus, but I'm quite certain that I was consistently taught that women tended to contain more water. But then I did grow up in the Kansas public education system (certainly not perfect, but despite it being a small town with a high religious population, evolution was never in doubt in the school at least, but quite a lot of things I've come to find were not quite as they seemed) so...

 

[devBunny]

Obesity pushes the water percentage lower by increasing the regions of fat cells which have a considerably lower percentage of water than the average.

 

[Typingsux]

We're 60% O by weight