How long does one red blood cell take to circle your whole body?

One red blood cell visits your lungs, your toes, and your heart again in well under a minute.

Blood does not drift, it races around a closed loop. At rest a single red blood cell leaves the heart, runs through the lungs and out to the body, and returns in roughly 20 to 60 seconds, often cited as about a minute. For scale, your heart pumps around 5 liters every minute, close to your whole blood supply, so the entire volume is turned over about once a minute. During hard exercise the heart speeds up and one circuit can drop to under 20 seconds.

While you wait for a kettle to boil, every red blood cell in you has lapped your whole body several times over.

Blood is not slow. At rest one full loop takes well under a minute, often about a minute or less.

It explains why medicine injected into a vein reaches the rest of you within a minute or so, not hours later.

One loop, about a minute. The heart laps your body like a clock hand.

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