Anooshka's Blog

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart"   - Hellen Keller            We often treat the heart as an emotional object inside us, but there's way more to the heart than that! It is one of the primary organs in the body that keeps us alive. The heart is a muscular organ that pumps blood to the other organs of the body every nanosecond of your life. This allows every cell, tissue and organ to get a fresh supply of blood and oxygen. It enhances their respective functions, keeping you alive.              The heart pumps oxygenated blood in the body. The organs of the body use the oxygen from the blood.  There are two ways in which blood circulates throughout the body - p ulmonary circulation   and systematic circulation . Pulmonary circulation refers to blood going from the heart to the lungs to get oxygenated before being sent to the rest of the body. Systematic circulation refers to  fresh, oxy