King of Organs

" heart as a mere pump may be fallacious ..... " 

                                                         Professor Dr.  Paul J. Rosch, MD, FACP
                                                        President of The American Institute of Stress

There are numerous reasons why the model of the heart as a mere pump may be fallacious, including insufficient force to move a viscous fluid like blood through some 25,000 miles of vessels.  If it were primarily a pump than Nature or millennia of evolution would not have left it in the upper part of the body where its suction action is obviously less efficient than a pushing effect from much lower down would be.  Its efficiency is also reduced since it does not influence the volume of blood in the venous return system, which is five times higher than in than in the entire arterial bed.  And if the heart is a pump, why does the aorta bend during systole instead of straightening out?
Finally, in contrast to heart transplants, replacing the heart with a mechanical pump only works for a short time. As I tried to point out around a quarter of a century ago in the attached from the New York Times, the heart is an exquisite endocrine organ that listens and responds to changing metabolic demands.  With respect to "the heart as king of organs" and a segue into your presentation, the heart also emits the strongest electromagnetic field in the body, far more powerful than the brain.  As you have demonstrated, this can affect the EEG of others within a yard, and can probably be detected at 12 or more feet and presume you will be including this.

                                          -  quoted from an Email exchange of opinion addressed to Prof. Dr Rollin McCraty -

                                                                                                      Mr Driss maknoun

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