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Podcast: Mayo Clinic Talks
Episode: Heart Health Edition: Primary Prevention - How to Keep Your Heart Healthy
Description: Host: Darryl S. Chutka, M.D.
Guest: Thomas C. Gerber, M.D., Ph.D.
The heart is an amazing organ. At rest, the average heart beats approximately 4500 times per hour, slightly over 100,000 times per day. It’s quite a reliable organ and unlike our kidneys, lungs and eyes, we only have one heart. We expect a lot from it, if it stops working for even a minute, everything else in our body shuts down. Like an automobile engine, it runs longer and better if it’s well cared for. What can we recommend to our pati...