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Amazing scientific facts about the human heart


Did you know that heart rhythms and singing in the choir of people synchronized? You may be interested to see the other amazing scientifically proven facts about how the human heart.




Every day our heart produces an amount of energy that would be sufficient to move a heavy truck over a distance of 32 kilometers.


 Thus, in the course of human life the total energy of the heart could provide flight to the moon and back.


Heart delivers blood nearly 75 trillion cells in our body.


he only body that does not require blood supply - corneas.


If you add up the amount of blood flowing through the heart of our lives over the years with its average duration, get about half a million barrels or 200 rail tank cars.


Heart cells begin to function even during the fourth week of intrauterine human development.


The biggest heart - the blue whale. It weighs more than 680 pounds.


Special Studies have shown that with increasing level of education reduces the risk of heart disease.



 Despite this, heart disease still remains a major threat to human life.



 Symptoms of the disease were found even in mummies three thousand years ago.



Peaks of heart attacks accounted for some reason on Christmas and New Year.



 Within a week, the maximum probability of a heart attack on Monday morning comes.



 As our own heart generates electrical impulses, it is able to continue to fight to separate from the body, as long as oxygen is over.



In 1929, German surgeon Werner Forssmann explored the inner regions of their own hearts, introducing a catheter through the vein in your arm. It was the first cardiac catheterization, later became routine medical procedure.


December 3, 1967, Dr. Christian Barnard of South Africa transplanted donor heart to the body of Luis Vashanski. Despite the fact that the patient lived with a transplanted heart only 18 days, it is considered the first successful heart transplant experience.


A woman's heart is usually beats faster than a man's.


Perfect tool that promotes heart health - a laugh! It can increase the intensity of circulation by 20 percent by relaxing the walls of blood vessels.


Reliable scientific information about the historical origins of the idea of ​​the relationship of heart and love, is currently lacking. Many ancient civilizations linked heart with feelings, emotions, but some historians agree that priority should be given to the ancient Greeks.


Lyrical image of "broken heart" is under a certain scientific basis. The fact that the body of a person experiencing severe emotional distress, develop appropriate stress hormones. Getting through the bloodstream to the heart, they can cause temporary shock and sometimes even imaginary symptoms of a heart attack.


Recent studies of Swedish scientists have established that the people singing in the choir, synchronized heart rhythms.




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