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The Adrenal-Heart Connection
By Tom Cowan, MD
In my first book, Fourfold Path to Healing,1 I said that the heart does not pump the blood. At the time, I thought that I was done with being heretical about the heart. If one accepts the premise that the heart is not a pump, however, then many other interesting ques- tions arise. For example, what is the heart doing if it is not a pump? What moves the blood? What causes heart attacks? Most intriguingly, why have people throughout
the ages connected the heart with gold and love?
My new book, Human Heart, Cosmic Heart,2 reviews some of the standard explanations of the heart and then explores whether those make sense. If they do not, then what does make sense and what should we do
about it?
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