The Heart - Our First Organ

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Three weeks into your pregnancy one of the first recognisable organs to form is the heart. Without a heart there is no way of spreading around the food and oxygen the embryo needs to flourish. Until now the heart has been a dormant clump of muscle cells, but after 22 days it bursts suddenly into life when still just the size of a poppy seed. One cell spontaneously contracts, triggering its neighbours, and setting off a chain reaction, until all the heart cells are beating. Later on, when the nervous system is more developed, the brain will carefully control the rate of contraction, keeping it steadily beating and pumping for the rest of the child’s life. If he lives to 75, that will be 2.75 billion heart beats.

Clip from the award winning documentary “In the Womb”.

[katiekat]

Besides getting rid of the creepy tick-tock voice they should stop flashing so fast from one image to the next so we can focus in and actually watch what's going on before switching to the angle or shot.

[Mukeshmiktecrep]

Awesome presentation, nice work done!

[ellish]

Heart is the first organ develope in our body. now i know.

[kabira.khada.bazaar.mein.]

That poem was a reminder of uncertainty of our lives. Very few words yet moving. I'd literally put my hand on chest to hear the lubb dubb and feel that I'm just moving by it's fate and can die any moment.

[johnlord]

A beating heart (EKG) is a living being, brain working with vagus nerve sending electrical jolts to heart (EEG).  3 weeks life is valid.

[charjl]

I'm studying the heart now bc of my job, and the more I know, the more fascinated I become. I wonder if the first heart cells to evolve were the cells of the SA node?

[IQENT]

Hi There, Can I use come clips from your video for a music video?

[CHILLYAQ]

Amazing to see this. Many consider 3 weeks of life as nothing and commit an abortion. Is this 3 weeks after fertilisation or 3 weeks gestation/pregnancy?

[benjaminjohnson]

I made it here, finally. Gotta be close, eh?

[Natku-Animaku]

reminds me of an asmr video when he was singing . lol

[mattsoutho]

Great video but the tick tick voice in massively creepy

[Wildstar]

***I look at you with disapproving eyebrows and crossed arms wilst shaking my head in a no fashion*** The heart is not a organ.It is a muscle.

[Palladiumavoid]

Its funny because the body needs outside energy to start

[mewantbrains]

Where is the full episode you stooges I'm not paying for it
You should upload it and put banner ads on it

[ciabhanyoung]

why is the heart our 1st organ
I don, t think it is

[Lucky_ness]

What's with the repeated flashing images and creepy weird poem.. Lol otherwise good video