· Heart basics
Your pulse, explained in plain words
You can feel the heart's work from the outside, at the wrist or the neck. What that tap of blood actually tells you, and what it does not, in plain words.
Heart basics
The heart explained the way a curious friend would explain it: what the pump does, what a pulse is, what the famous numbers measure. Plain physiology before anything else, because every habit makes more sense once the mechanism is clear.
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· Heart basics
How the heart works, explained simply
A muscle the size of a closed fist moves blood through about one hundred thousand beats a day. Here is what actually happens inside, told without jargon.
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