Assalamualaikum wrt and good day to everyone.
In conjunction to our month of cardiovascular system, we from
PPIM Moscow are going to talk about the most important organ in this system;
which is the heart and how does it function.
We all know that in every thing created, there must be
something that drives them to function, like in car there is the engine, and in
machine there is some kind of hydraulic pump for them to work. The same applies
to us humans, physiologically speaking. The most vital organ that holds our
body systems together is the heart, the busiest and the most core of us.
Without heart, we will die.
Heart is the busiest organ in our body. It works and beats
non-stop for 24 hours per day, supplying us with “life”. How it functions
non-stop with amazing complexity of the heart system is beyond our imagination,
it marks how great Allah is as He is the best and the only Creator,
subhanaAllah.
Few facts and trivias that may blow your mind about the heart.
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Put your hand on your heart. Did you place your
hand on the left side of your chest? Many people do, but the heart is actually
located almost in the center of the chest, between the lungs. It's tipped
slightly so that a part of it sticks out and taps against the left side of the
chest, which is what makes it seem as though it is located there.
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Hold out your hand and make a fist. If you're a
kid, your heart is about the same size as your fist, and if you're an adult,
it's about the same size as two fists.
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Your heart beats about 100,000 times in one day
and about 35 million times in a year. During an average lifetime, the human
heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times.
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Give a tennis ball a good, hard squeeze. You're
using about the same amount of force your heart uses to pump blood out to the
body. Even at rest, the muscles of the heart work hard—twice as hard as the leg
muscles of a person sprinting.
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Feel your pulse by placing two fingers at pulse
points on your neck or wrists. The pulse you feel is blood stopping and starting
as it moves through your arteries. As a kid, your resting pulse might range
from 90 to 120 beats per minute. As an adult, your pulse rate slows to an
average of 72 beats per minute.
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The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is
almost the diameter of a garden hose. Capillaries, on the other hand, are so
small that it takes ten of them to equal the thickness of a human hair.
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Your body has about 5.6 liters (6 quarts) of
blood. This 5.6 liters of blood circulates through the body three times every
minute. In one day, the blood travels a total of 19,000 km (12,000
miles)—that's four times the distance across the US from coast to coast.
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The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood
during an average lifetime—that's enough to fill more than 3 super tankers.
Interesting, right?
