The Heart Feeds Itself First
TL;DR - right before your blood goes all around your body, enriched by oxygen it picked up on its trip to the lungs, the first exit ramp are coronary arteries - those are, the vessels that supply your heart muscle. What can we learn from the heart's design to feed itself first?
When you take a deep breath in, your lungs expand and your blood has an opportunity to let go of what is no longer needed - the residue of cellular processes, CO2 - and to take on Oxygen, the essential molecule for all of our cellular processes. The blood is moved into and out of the lungs by the heart. The story you know is that the heart takes that oxygen-rich blood and pumps it throughout our body*, attempting to reach every cell we have to deliver this essential package. What you may not know, is that the first place that receives this oxygen-rich blood is the heart, itself. That's right. Via the coronary arteries, the heart feeds itself first. Your heart ensures that it has all that it needs as a first order of business.
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