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The Checkup with Doctor Mike

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The Importance of Balance in the Heart

The heart is a really complicated organ. A lot of what we think is good with regular skeletal muscle is not always good for a cardiac muscle. And the cardiac muscle in comparison to most of the skeletal muscle in your body needs to contract and relax well, both. It needs to be balanced because when the cardiac muscle relaxes is when it fills. So if it doesn't relax well, it doesn't fill well. Therefore, that when you pump, you can actually have a non successful pump,. Even though it's super strong because it didn't relax enough to fill up.

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