It's to me one of the most fascinating things that I've come across when I started really diving into heart health and the heart in general.

It's this idea that the heart, it's not necessarily there to be this forceful pressure propulsion pump that, you know, I was told it was in my medical training and, you know, all medical students across the world are told the same thing as far as I know.

If it's not this pressure propulsion pump, what is it?

Why is it there?

What's its job?

And so there was plenty of doubt among early heart researchers and physicians and things that the heart was a

pressure propulsion pump or that it was even, you know, the size of it was even capable of pushing

the blood throughout the entire body.

One guy said, you need the heart the size of a whale

to do that, to create enough force.

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