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"In the tradition of Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, Reinhard Friedl's The Source of All Things is a heart surgeon's personal investigation of the human heart, moving from his riveting clinical experiences to a more poetic understanding of its workings. The heart is our most important organ. Yet despite that it has not changed since the appearance of Homo sapiens 300,000 years ago, it is also our most mysterious. In most human cultures, it is seen as the...
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"For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was the spark of life as well as somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in [this book], it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and developed the science to change the way we live. Deftly weaving together his own experiences with the defining discoveries...
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"Did you know we have 100,000 heartbeats a day? That's a lot of wear and tear over the years as we age. Natural aging leads to artery plaque, high blood pressure, and slower and irregular heartbeats. You can do everything right, and time will still pass.You will still age. While you can influence some aspects of aging on your own, some you cannot--at least not without your doctor's help. Fortunately, the biology of aging is no longer mysterious....
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"This book traces the evolution of our understanding of the heart from the dawn of civilization 15,000 years ago to today. It examines how we humans have evolved our beliefs about the purpose of the heart to try to understand what life forces it contains. Throughout our history, the heart has played an important role for the poet, the philosopher, and the physician. Until modern times, the heart was considered the home of our emotions, thoughts, memories...
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"The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries-which had to be completed in three minutes before death arrived-to heart transplants and the latest medical efforts to prolong our hearts' lives, almost defying nature in the process. Thought of as the seat of our soul, then as a mysteriously...
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Journalist Baier "reflects on past challenges as he looks forward with hope, chronicling the steps on his path to national prominence as a television anchor, as well as his unexpected journey into the world of pediatric cardiac disease"--Provided by publisher.
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At one time, heart disease was a death sentence. In The Heart Healers, world renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. James Forrester tells the story of the mavericks and rebels who defied the accumulated medical wisdom of the day to begin conquering heart disease. By the middle of the 20th century, heart disease was killing millions and, as with the Black Death centuries before, physicians stood helpless. Visionaries, though, had begun to make strides earlier....
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Low Carb Diet Low Carb Meals and Low Carb Snacks that Satisfy the Whole Family Now, a complete, sensible way to introduce the entire family to healthier eating with a low carb diet plan. Included are a list of low carb foods, an explanation of the benefits gained by using a low carb diet, and delicious recipes to make and include in any low carb diet menu. There are 50 delicious low carb recipes that have under 500 calories per serving. Extra tips,...
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I wanted to write this book because I saw many of my students, with excellent results over execution in didactic portion and clinical skills, who were afraid to face the first echocardiography work. Repeatedly, some of them rejected offers of jobs during the externship, claiming that they needed more practice. Therefore, from the sky appeared to me the idea for this book: I want to stop the fear of starting work now in this world of echocardiography....
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"Through the Fire" is an inspiring memoir that delves into the profound impact of a sudden and unexpected cardiovascular event on the author's life. Ann Bayah's gripping narrative draws readers into her harrowing journey to survival, one that forever alters the course of her existence.
In these pages, readers are not only witnesses to her personal story but also recipients of a vital warning. Ann's life-changing experience serves as a stark reminder...
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Low Fat Cookbook A Low Fat Diet with Gluten Free Recipes Are you looking to improve your life? Do you want to upgrade your health? Do you want to stop living day to day and plan for the future? Naturally a low fat diet is not going to fix all of your existing problems, but it WILL take care of a great deal. That being said, this is one book that you simply do not want to miss. There are lots of low fat meals and low fat diet recipes to read over....
14) Human Heart
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A chart of the human heart would show the details of the valves and arteries. It shows the aspects of the circulatory system in relation to the heart. Details are given about it being a muscle as well as how many times it should beat for children and adults at various ages in life. Chambers are labeled, the mitral and tricuspid valve are labeled and the blood vessels are shown in color to help designate those that take blood from the heart and those...
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Low Fat Diet Recipes: Gluten Free Recipes and Superfoods This Low Fat Diet Recipes book contains diet ideas and healthy low fat recipes from two different diet plans the Superfoods diet and the Gluten Free diet. Each of these diets provides good food ideas and easy low fat recipes to help you plan for a healthy menu. You can take the diet food ideas within this easy food recipes book to create all the low fat healthy recipes you will want. Each diet...
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Myocardial Torsion is a book different from others, simply because this book is unique, unusual, and I dare say with admiration, it is a curious book, partly magical, full of personality, for initiatory readers, revealing, provocative, and challenging. The book has the infrequent peculiarity of being, based, largely, on original personal and multidisciplinary investigations, granting it an important extra value.
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A history of events relative to the development of the medical sub-specialty of cardiology at the Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, told from the personal perspective of a member of the Keck USC School of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, who arrived there as an Internal Medicine resident in 1956 and has practiced academic medicine at the medical center continuously since that time.
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Low Carb Meal Ideas Low Carb with Gluten Free and Mediterranean Diet The Low Carb Meal Ideas book features low carb meal recipes. This book features two diet plans that incorporate low carb recipe ideas with the Gluten Free Diet and the Mediterranean Diet. Both diets have good low carb meal plans. Carbohydrates are responsible for a lot of weight gain, especially when consuming the wrong kinds. The two diets featured here uses foods that are naturally...
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Für uns ist der Druck des Blutes gegen die Gefäßwand eine Zahl. Sie ist oft zu hoch. Für den Organismus ist diese Kraft ein Werkzeug. Mit diesem Aufwand werden aus den Adern heraus Nährstoffe und Sauerstoff im Blut durch Gefäßmembrane in das angrenzende Gewebe gepresst. Es ist sozusagen die Essensausgabe an unsere Zellen. Ein hoher Blutdruck ist niemals ein Versehen. Es ist die sinnvolle Antwort auf ein Problem. Gegen jeden Widerstand in dieser...
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Low Cholesterol Recipes Superfoods and Gluten Free that May Lower Cholesterol This Low Cholesterol Recipes book features low fat meals using both low carb recipes and low calorie recipes through the Super Foods Diet and the Gluten Free Diet. Cholesterol levels go hand in hand (in most cases) with excessive weight gain from eating unhealthy diets full of junk food and from the lack of exercise. By developing healthy eating habits from choosing low...
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