The Heart's Hidden Economy: Why Efficiency May Be the Next Frontier in Cardiovascular Health

Every second of every day, your heart performs an extraordinary balancing act. Roughly the size of your fist, this remarkable organ contracts about 100,000 times each day, pumping thousands of litres of blood through an intricate network of vessels. It does so with astonishing reliability, rarely taking a break from the moment it first begins beating before birth until the end of life. Most of us…