How many layers of skin does a person have? How many layers do they shed each day?

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The skin is composed of three basic layers. The 'dermis' is the deepest layer and it is responsible for making new skin cells; the 'hypodermis' is a middle layer of maturing cells; and the 'epidermis' is the outer-most, superficial skin layer and the only one of the skin layers that sheds, or sloughs off, dead cells.

You can read more about it here:
http://www.mattek.com/pages/products/epidermft

and here:
http://education.vetmed.vt.edu/Curriculum/VM8054/Labs/Lab14/Lab14.htm

Here's an interesting tid-bit of info: All of your skin, every single cell of it from the deepest layer through to the top-most layer, is replaced by new cells in a three week period of time. This means that twenty-one days from now, you'll be wearing a totally brand-spanking-new birthday suit. Don't forget this fact if you're ever tempted to run around naked, showing off your skin to the whole wide world - it's probably the only reasonable excuse you can use to keep you from being arrested and it might end up... "saving your skin."

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3 layers - but people shed cells, not entire skin layers - thank goodness - that would just be gross.

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