Hello! I have been a doctor for 21 years. My name is Georgy Olegovich Sapego. In this article I will tell you about why our heart is like a thermos, and the fat in the heart resembles lard.
Atrial fibrillation is the most common type of persistent heart rhythm disorder. That is, if a person heals arrhythmia for a long time, then it is rather atrial fibrillation.
From it, heart failure develops, and inside the heart itself, like in a churn, blood clots are obtained. Then these blood clots fly out of the heart and can block an artery somewhere in the head. So if not heart failure will finish off the patient, then a stroke.
People with atrial fibrillation are about twice as likely to die as people without atrial fibrillation.
There are many reasons for atrial fibrillation. Usually there must be some kind of acquired heart disease, because atrial fibrillation is rare in children.
And now, in addition to all diseases, hormones and heredity, the fat that surrounds the heart was identified as the cause of atrial fibrillation.
The heart is like a thermos
The outside of the heart is covered with fat. In our body, many organs are packed with fat so that they stay in place in the right position. This is normal. The fat just lies there like a pillow and doesn't bother anyone.
The heart has two shells with some lubricant between them. The heart is constantly at work, and lubrication makes it easier.
Think of the heart as a double-walled thermos. Only in the thermos there is a vacuum between the walls, and grease is poured in the heart between the double shell.
Now once again remember the thermos and think about where its outer and inner walls are connected. Have you presented? This is the neck of the thermos. There the inner wall of the thermos is bent and turns into the outer one.
The heart has about the same construction. Its base, like the neck of a thermos, connects the outer and inner shells. In that place, the coronary arteries that feed the heart, and the atria, in which atrial fibrillation live, begin.
And in that place, fat lives, which not just lies there, but connects with the heart muscle by blood vessels. This fat is like a leech attached to the heart and can inject something into the heart muscle. He injects inflammatory substances there. We've already discussed the different chemistry that our visceral fat can release into the bloodstream. Read about this case at the link below.
Just like a belly
It turns out that our heart is like our belly. Under the skin on our belly there is ordinary fat, and inside the belly is hidden a very harmful visceral fat, which secretes all kinds of filth into the blood.
So the fat that has grown into the heart also injects all kinds of filth into the heart and can provoke the development of atrial fibrillation.
This story at one time inspired scientists so much that they decided to test the mechanism of atrial fibrillation in sheep. Sheep were fed like pigs and saw what happens with their hearts. It turned out that there appeared scars, conduction disturbances and all that. That is, excess fat in the eyes spoiled the heart muscle.
It turns out that in overweight people, fat does not just quietly release hormones into the bloodstream, but literally bites into the heart and provokes the development of dangerous rhythm disturbances. I didn't want to eat something right away ...
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