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The Most Mind-Blowing Information On Heart Disease You'll Ever Hear - Understanding The Heart (Uncommon Insights Into Our Most Commonly Diseased Organ) - Part 1 With Stephen Hussey.

Ben Greenfield Life

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What Is a Hydraulic Ram and How Does It Work?

The heart is not necessarily there to be this forceful pressure propulsion pump that you know i was told it wasn't in my medical training. It actually behaves more like what's called the hydraulic ram by pumping but really no more than than just to move the blood kind of through the heart. The contractions do kind of guide the blood in the right direction through the heart and we've already established that the blood came flow on its own. Dr kalen did a great job in his book kind of explain this concept but i wanted to go a little bit deeper and so i put images in there looking at the the congruencies between a hydraulic ram and the structures of the heart.

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