This Is How Your Body Makes New Blood

Forget about young blood! Your body is constantly making new blood every second of your life and this process is unlike anything else around. » Subscribe to Seeker! » Watch more Human! » Visit our shop at Our bodies are pretty incredible, so far we’ve covered what blood is made of, what the different blood types are, and in this Human episode we are exploring how our bodies actually make more blood. The creation, maintenance, and filtration of blood is a unique process that’s different from our other cells. Luckily, we’ve got some organs and physiology up for the task. So unlike when our body wants to create new skin cells or stomach cells using mitosis, creating new blood cells requires a bit more work. Red blood cells can’t make direct copies of themselves because they ditch their nuclei as they mature. So your body has to constantly manufacture and eject blood in order to keep the c