Tag: neurons

Our heart is hands down our hardest working organ. It never sleeps, beating over two billion times in a lifetime and circulating 50 million gallons of blood. It is the first organ structure that comes to life in the embryo and holds us until our last breath.

It is hard to imagine how we could ever take this life-sustaining organ for granted, but so constant is the heart that we rarely stop to celebrate its function or recognize and listen to its needs.