THE HEART, THE MOST VITAL.
The heart as often said, is a muscle whose job is to pump blood 100,000 times a day to all organs of the body. It is a vital but simple bag of fleshy fibres that responds to external nerves and hormones to help with flight or fight response in order to maintain homeostasis. However, new research is showing that the heart controls the brain much more than previously thought.
There are about 40,000 sensory neurons relaying information to the brain from the heart leading researchers to call the heart “the little brain” and to coin the field of Neurocardiology. The heart communicates with the brain and the entire body via the nervous system connections, hormones produced in the heart itself, biochemical information via blood pressure waves and energetic information from the strong electrical and electromagnetic fields.
There is more information sent from the heart to the brain on a daily basis via these four means of communication than vice versa.
Another fact is that the heart emits more electrical activity than the brain. Research shows that the heart emits an electrical field 60 times greater in amplitude than activity in the brain and an electromagnetic field 5,000 times stronger than that of the brain.
Interestingly, the activity via one person’s heart can be measured in the brain waves of another person. This is due to the fact that the electromagnetic field of two individuals (e.g. pet & human) touching or within a few centimeters from each other can interact so that the activity in the heart of one individual is measured in the brain waves of the other. This kind of communication forms the basis of the concept of healing by touching therapies.
Although the brain is much more complex than the heart, the heart is so vital that the entire body cells depend on its proper functioning of oxygen and nutrient supply. In this respect, the brain depends on the heart more than any other organ. The brain virtually only metabolizes glucose which is supplied in the blood pumped from the heart.
The vitality of the heart has prompted and eventually led scientists into invention of artificial hearts and this led to the concept of heart transplant in order to prolong the life of patients with heart failures. Despite the fact that brain transplants are not available, a patient even though unconscious, can live without the brain for a long period of time provided the heart is functioning.
The brain is known to initiate the transmission of nerve impulse to various body tissues and organs, however, the heart has the ability to initiate its own nervous impulse through the Sino-atrial node (SA node) which is often called the pace maker.
In these regards, it can be arguably stated that the heart is the most vital organ, however, every body organ is vital to the survival of an individual.
HAMEED SODIQ AYOBAMI
500L, FVM, UDUS.
hameedsodiq71@gmail.com
to be presented on 13/07/2017 @ Congregation Hall by 8:00PM.
The heart as often said, is a muscle whose job is to pump blood 100,000 times a day to all organs of the body. It is a vital but simple bag of fleshy fibres that responds to external nerves and hormones to help with flight or fight response in order to maintain homeostasis. However, new research is showing that the heart controls the brain much more than previously thought.
There are about 40,000 sensory neurons relaying information to the brain from the heart leading researchers to call the heart “the little brain” and to coin the field of Neurocardiology. The heart communicates with the brain and the entire body via the nervous system connections, hormones produced in the heart itself, biochemical information via blood pressure waves and energetic information from the strong electrical and electromagnetic fields.
There is more information sent from the heart to the brain on a daily basis via these four means of communication than vice versa.
Another fact is that the heart emits more electrical activity than the brain. Research shows that the heart emits an electrical field 60 times greater in amplitude than activity in the brain and an electromagnetic field 5,000 times stronger than that of the brain.
Interestingly, the activity via one person’s heart can be measured in the brain waves of another person. This is due to the fact that the electromagnetic field of two individuals (e.g. pet & human) touching or within a few centimeters from each other can interact so that the activity in the heart of one individual is measured in the brain waves of the other. This kind of communication forms the basis of the concept of healing by touching therapies.
Although the brain is much more complex than the heart, the heart is so vital that the entire body cells depend on its proper functioning of oxygen and nutrient supply. In this respect, the brain depends on the heart more than any other organ. The brain virtually only metabolizes glucose which is supplied in the blood pumped from the heart.
The vitality of the heart has prompted and eventually led scientists into invention of artificial hearts and this led to the concept of heart transplant in order to prolong the life of patients with heart failures. Despite the fact that brain transplants are not available, a patient even though unconscious, can live without the brain for a long period of time provided the heart is functioning.
The brain is known to initiate the transmission of nerve impulse to various body tissues and organs, however, the heart has the ability to initiate its own nervous impulse through the Sino-atrial node (SA node) which is often called the pace maker.
In these regards, it can be arguably stated that the heart is the most vital organ, however, every body organ is vital to the survival of an individual.
HAMEED SODIQ AYOBAMI
500L, FVM, UDUS.
hameedsodiq71@gmail.com
to be presented on 13/07/2017 @ Congregation Hall by 8:00PM.
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