Get to know amazing facts about hearts and understand the strongest muscles in your body better. Here are 12 things you may not know!
- Hold your hands in a fist and that’s the size of your heart. Adult’s hearts are about the size of 2 fists and children’s hearts are about the size of one adult fist.
- Your heart beats an average of 100,000 times a day. In your entire lifetime, your heart might beat up to 2.5 billion times.
- Your heart pumps the equivalent of 1 million barrels of blood during your lifetime. That would fill 6 small tankers!
- If you left your kitchen sink running for 45 years it would be the same as how much blood is pumped during your lifetime.
- The heart has its own electrical impulse which means it can continue to beat outside a body as long as it has oxygen.
- The heart pumps blood to almost all of the body’s 75 trillion cells. The only part of your body that receives no blood are your corneas.
- The heart beat sound you hear is caused by the four valves of the heart opening and closing.
- Hearts do the most “heavy lifting” during your lifetime. The muscles in your heart work harder than all your other muscles.
- Just four weeks after conception, the heart begins beating.
- Women’s hearts beat faster than men’s at 78 bpm versus 70 bpm.
- Blood moves from your heart to your lungs and back in only 6 seconds!
- Fetal heart rate is twice as fast as an adults at 150 bpm and at 12 weeks the heart pumps 12 pints of blood each day.
