The International Commission on Radiological Protection has provided data which shows the elements that make up the human body and the percentage they constitute.
The human body is an incredible, well-functioning, and extremely complicated machine. For a person to be healthy, many various components must work together, and every biological detail in our bodies, from the most basic to the most complicated, is controlled by just 21 chemical elements.
Only 21 of the 118 elements on Earth are found in the human body. Together, they comprise the collection of different molecules that come together to form our DNA, cells, tissues, and organs, as explained in more depth below.
In the infographic above, we've broken down a human body into its elemental composition and the percentages in which they occur based on data provided by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP).
According to the amounts present in a human body, these 21 elements may be di...