there are an estimated 37 trillion cells in the human body

There are an estimated 37 trillion cells in the human body. This is an estimate from Annals of Human Biology journal.

They looked back over scientific journals and books from the past couple centuries and found many estimates. But those estimates sprawled over a huge range, from 5 billion to 200 million trillion cells.

The mean weight of a cell is 1 nanogram. For an adult man weighing 70 kilograms, simple arithmetic would lead us to conclude that that man has 70 trillion cells. The mean volume of a mammal cell is estimated to be 4 billionths of a cubic centimeter. (To get a sense of that size, check out The Scale of the Universe.) Based on an adult man’s typical volume, you might conclude that the human body contains 15 trillion cells.

They estimated the number of cells in the body the hard way, breaking it down by organs and cell types.

We have 50 billion fat cells and 2 billion heart muscle cells.

A healthy liver has 240 billion cells in it, for example, but some studies on cirrhosis have found the disease organ have as few as 172 billion.

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