Fascinating Facts About Your Heart

• Your heart is about the size of your two hands clasped together.

• Every day, your heart beats about 100,000 times.

• Each minute, your heart pumps 1.5 gallons of blood.

• The heart pumps blood through 60,000 miles of blood vessels.

• Your normal heart pumps about 4 tablespoons of blood with each beat.

• A woman’s average heart beat is faster than a man’s by close to 8 beats a minute.

• A fetal heart beats faster than an adult at about 150 beats per minute.

• The heart begins beating at four weeks after conception and does not stop until death.

• The “thump-thump” of a heartbeat is the sound of the four valves of the heart closing.

• During an average lifetime, your heart will pump nearly 1.5 million barrels of blood.
• Grab a tennis ball and squeeze it: that’s how hard the beating heart works to pump blood.

• The earliest known case of heart disease was identified in the remains of a 3,500 year old Egyptian mummy.

And just for fun . . .

Guess what mammal has the largest heart?  If you guessed the Blue Whale you’d be right!  A blue whale’s heart weighs 1,500 pounds!!

The smallest heart of any living creature is in a kind of wasp called the fairy fly.

Private Home Health Care hopes that you’ve enjoyed the interesting facts about our amazing hearts!