Hello and welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast.

Over the last few years, we've covered some very important body organs like the brain and the heart.

An organ is simply a part of the body that works to perform a specific function or functions. The organ we

are covering this week is just as important as the brain or the heart in keeping us alive,

and it turns out that it is the body's largest organ. Double mail bag! Double mail bag.

Dear Jacob and Olivia, I'm curious about skin, and I would be really happy if you got

curious from me, from Edward of Central Texas.

Hi, Jacob and Olivia. We recently discovered you all's podcast, and we love it. We are working our way through all of the past episodes and learning a lot. Sloan, six years old, is curious about turkeys, flowers, and giant octopuses like the Kraken. Logan, four years old, is curious about skin and birds. Thank you for

the awesome podcast, Sloan and Logan of Ocala, Florida. My goodness, those were a pair of awesome

emails from some of our amazing listeners. We can't wait to get the skinny on skin for Edward, Sloan, and Logan.

Skin covers our bodies, but the skin in different parts of our bodies could be different.

The question of the week is, where on the body can the thickest skin be found, and where on the body is your skin the thinnest?

While you're thinking of the answer, let's learn a ton of facts about our biggest organ,

the skin. The skin is made up of three different layers. The outer layer of the skin is called

the epidermis. That is the part of the skin that you can see. The epidermis

does a few important things, but its main task is to make new skin cells. Believe it or not,

your skin replaces itself about every 30 days. You probably don't notice it, but we are losing

dead skin cells all the time. The body sheds from 30,000 to

40,000 skin cells each and every minute. For that reason, 95% of the cells in the epidermis

are hard at work making new skin cells to replace all of the dead skin cells.

In a full year, you will shed anywhere from 5 to 10 pounds of dead skin that will simply

flake off of your body. But don't worry, because new skin cells are being made all of the

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