Tips For Heart Month: How Your Heart Works
“Oh, wondrous power! How little understood…to fashion genius, form the soul for good.” — Sarah J. Hale
Your heart is a beautifully designed pump whose purpose is to deliver blood, together with life-giving oxygen and nutrients, to every cell, tissue, and organ of your body. Shaped like a pear and weighing about eleven ounces, the heart sits in the center of the chest, pointing up toward the right shoulder. It is a specialized muscle divided into four chambers, two on the right and two on the left, which are separated by one-way valves. The heart therefore is in a sense two pumps, because it’s right and left sides are separated from each other. (more…)
