Aleksey Fyodorov is a cardiothoracic surgeon, a candidate of medical sciences, head of the operating department of the Center for Cardiovascular Surgery of the Main Military Clinical Hospital named after Academician N. N. Burdenko of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, scientific editor, editor of the “Medicine and Science” section, and reviewer and columnist for the journal “Health.”
While the best physicists in the world are trying to develop a perpetual motion machine, I hold it in my hands several times a week. Sometimes I stop it, but I обязательно start it again. You guessed it? Of course, it’s about the heart. The heart is the only organ in our body that never rests. At most, at night our Perpetuum Mobile can allow itself to tap the rhythm a little less often—not 70, but 50 beats per minute. And that’s it. This organ, living by the principle “all or nothing” and enduring crazy loads every day, simply cannot be neglected, just as you can’t treat its mission carelessly—to supply blood to all the cells of our body.
A healthy heart is the key to longevity.
But modern life is very different from the rhythm set by nature. We move too little, but eat too much; we expose the heart to toxic substances and, most importantly, for years we ignore it! That’s why we catch clots, suffer from tachycardia, deal with diabetes, fight arrhythmia, and fear the word “heart attack.”
In my book, I want to consider all the parameters of “healthy heart life,” give you knowledge about our body, debunk myths, and—ideally—show with simple examples that our life can be lived not against the heart, but together with it!