13 Shocking Facts About The Female Body That Prove How Amazing It Is

Did you know that your clitoris actually grows as you get older? After menopause, the clitoris can become 2.5 times larger than it was during your teenage years, and 7 times larger than it was at birth. Dr. Shelly Persad also states that the clitoris doesn't age. No matter how much wear and tear your clitoris may experience over the years, it retains all of its pleasure capacity.

Have you ever wondered why you remember things so much better than your male partner? Studies show that women have better cognitive memory than men do. The Telegraph reported that a study done in 2010 at the University of London found that middle-aged women were able to recall words more easily than men. And in June 2013, Science Daily reported on a study done by McMaster University that women were better than remembering faces than men.

Women have been shown to have a stronger sense of smell than men. The sense of smell becomes even stronger just before or during ovulation, Dr. Oz told Oprah.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, women live about five years longer than men. Scientists believe that a lot of it has to do with women engaging in healthier behaviors than men over the years. A recent study by McGill University also believe that women's bodies fight off infection and disease in a better manner than men's bodies do.

According to WebMD, studies run with men and women concerning language and use of the brain show that women's brains show a more bilateral activation of their brains than males do. Males are more prone to using the left side of their brains.

Women are actually built to cry more often than men. This is due to the fact that at a cellular level, women's tear glands are anatomically different than those of men. According to William H. Frey II, author of Crying: The Mystery of Tears, adult women cry 5.3 times a month, whereas adult men only cry about 1.4 times. In an interview with the LA Times, Frey explained the role that prolactin plays in the production of tears, and that women have 50 to 60 percent higher levels of prolactin in their bloodstream than men do.

That's right, your clitoris is dedicated solely to pleasure. It's not there for reproductive purposes, it's there to make you happy. How awesome is that?

The female heart is programmed to beat faster than a male heart. This is because women's hearts are often smaller, and pump less blood with each beat. In order to keep up the heart's output, women's hearts beat faster. Livestrong reports that en average 70 to 72 beats per minute, where women average between 78 and 82 beats per minute.

Because male and female bodies are built differently, females are more flexible. Due to the fact that female muscles and tendons contain more elastin, it makes stretching a lot easier on your bodies. Livestrong also attributes flexible joints and a wider female pelvis in the ability to gain a larger range of motion.

It's not a coincidence, your brain is functioning to help you multitask better than the men in your office. A study by the Journal of Neuroscience shows that the corpus callosum in the female brain is larger, which is what allows women to multitask more effectively.

You're getting more out of your tongue, and that's a fact. A study done by Yale University showed that there are more taste buds on a female tongue. Health reported that this is why women often have more sensitive palates than men.

Two brain centers are responsible for female speech, which is why women are able to hear about twice as many sounds as men are. In an interview with ABC, Dr. Charles Limb, an associate professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine said, "Men have overall worse hearing than women as they age."

In that same interview, Dr. Paul Breslin, a professor of nutrition at Rutgers University, said that "in general, women seem to have a slight edge up on men in terms of abilities." For all of these reasons and more, the female body is a truly incredible system to live in.