Every time your heart beats, a wave of pressure pulses throughout the body as blood vessels expand and contract. And now, researchers think that even individual brain cells jiggle with each beat.
Your Brain Cells Jiggle With Every Heartbeat
Pulses from your heart shimmy all the way up to cells in your brain, new research suggests.
By Leslie Nemo
Mar 10, 2020 8:45 PMApr 21, 2020 1:55 AM
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