How do our hearts beat 24/7 without needing to take a break/rest period?
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The heart does take breaks, but it’s between each stroke.
The sounds you hear as heartbeat are not directly caused by the contraction, but by the closing and opening of the ventricles.
Even so, broken down onto seconds, the heart spends more time in rest mode than in systole-diastole, aka “beating”
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