Heart is an amazing and most hard working organ in your body which continues to pump out blood as long as you live. Heart, as a symbol of love gets an eternal place in our life. Livescience.com listed 10 amazing facts about your heart.
Know about your heart:
Courtesy: Livescience.
1. Bigger heart is not a symbol for your emotional quotient. But it is a sign of underlying heart disease.
2. Bad news will disrupt your heart and lead to heart diseases due to release of stress hormones.
3. Heart is really an amazing organ. Heart beats for 1,oo,ooo times to pump 2,000 gallons of oxygen-rich blood many times through about 60,000 miles of branching blood vessels in our body per day.
4. Contrary to popular perception, heart diseases are occurring at almost similar rates in both men and women.
5. Like exercise, regular sex (3 times a week) reduces risk of death from coronary heart disease due to burning of calories.
6. Either red or white, wine has similar effect on heart.
7. Laughing will help your heart by increasing blood flow due to relaxation of blood vessels.
8. Scientists are developing stem cell therapies to cure physically damaged hearts.
9. Horse has similar heart as humans. Scientists are conducting experiments on horse hearts to understand human hearts.
10. Heart is the universal symbol of love. According to Greeks, it is a symbol of spirit. According to Chinese, heart is a symbol of happiness.
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