The Beat of Life av Reinhard Friedl

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<b>The heart is our most important ¿ and perhaps most mysterious ¿ organ.</b></p><p>Every day it pumps 9000 litres of blood and beats around 100,000 times. But the heart is more than just a pump. In all major human cultures, it is seen as the source of love, sympathy, joy, courage, strength and wisdom. Why?</p><p>Having witnessed the extraordinary complexity and unpredictability of human hearts in the operating theatre ¿ each one individual in its make-up, like a fingerprint ¿ heart surgeon Reinhard Friedl went on a search for answers. He examined closely the latest findings in neurocardiology and psychocardiology, and in <i>The Beat of Life</i> he shares his discoveries, using riveting personal stories to illustrate the complex relationship between the heart, the brain and the psyche.</p><p><b>''Reinhard Friedl explains why love resides in the heart, whether it can be broken by grief and why heart and brain form a unit''</b> Kleine Presse Graz</p><p><b>''Raising awareness, contemplati