Inside Your Heart
Revolutionizing One Beat at a Time
4.1 (16)
77 mins
Explore 'Inside Your Heart' daring exploits and silent killers in cardiovascular health. Feel emotions turned lethal, witness game-changing experiments, and unravel secrets transforming cardiology. Question the unexpected, savor suspense, and explore the extraordinary beating engine that powers us in this captivating saga of science and chance.
Ep 1:
When Grief Breaks the Heart
A grieving widow's heart literally changes shape, revealing a stunning truth: emotions can wound the heart as surely as any blockage—and silent plaque buildup kills millions unnoticed.
Ep 2:
The Doctor Who Dared to Reach His Own Heart
In 1929, a young German intern locks himself in an operating room to thread a catheter into his own vein, risking death to prove the heart could be safely explored.
Ep 3:
Framingham: Chasing an Invisible Killer
As Cold War America reels from a president's hidden heart failure, scientists launch an audacious small-town study to finally predict—and prevent—the nation's deadliest killer.
Ep 4:
Sparks of Life: Decoding the Heart's Electric Pulse
From frog legs twitching in sync to a Dutch physiologist's ingenious machine, discover how scientists first captured the heart's invisible electrical language.
Ep 5:
Accidental Miracles: Calm Hormones and a Faulty Resistor
The heart moonlights as a pharmacy calming anxiety through exercise-triggered hormones, while a wrong resistor grabbed by accident sparks the invention of the pacemaker.
Ep 6:
Stitching Together the Impossible: A Vascular Breakthrough
When a ruptured aorta leaves surgeons with no graft to save a dying man, a resident's earlier lab mistake inspires a fabric solution that changes vascular surgery forever.
Ep 7:
One Heart, Two Bodies: Surgery's Boldest Gamble
Facing death sentences from congenital heart defects, a bold surgeon proposes something unthinkable: linking two living bodies so one heart can rest while another sustains life.
Ep 8:
The Plumber Who Unclogged the Impossible
A radiologist nicknamed 'Crazy Charlie' dares to blast open clogged arteries with catheters, birthing angioplasty and forever changing how we treat blocked hearts.
Discussions (21)
Sebastian
Level 10 · 8 mo agowaiiit can we talk about werner forssmann tricking that nurse?? he sweet talked her for supplies then did the catheter on himself... the audacity of men lol. poor gerda just got played. absolute mess.
Lee
Level 6 · 9 mo agoDid you hear Werner Forssmann tricked a nurse to catheterize himself? He even kicked a colleague to keep going! Talk about being desperate for fame!
Marlin
Level 10 · 9 mo agoNah dysevolution is not the only cause. Mummies had clogged arteries too so it is not just modern life.
