>>> as we celebratevalentine's month, have you ever wondered how serious abroken heart can be? stay tuned for healthwatch.captioning provided by caption associates, llccaptionassociates.com \m\m>>> hello, i'm terrance afer-anderson, and this ishealthwatch. i'm wearing my favorite redtie and suit today because during the month of february,the american heart association celebrates national heartmonth. of course, it is also go redfor women month, recognizing women and heart disease.did you know that heart disease is the number onecause of death in american women?let me ask you something: have you ever heard of anyonedying from a broken heart? is it really possible?well, you might be surprised to know that there is agenuine medical condition known as broken heartsyndrome. the clinical term isstress-induced cardiomyopathy. or takotsubo cardiomyopathy.in case you're wondering, a takotsubo is a japanesedesigned pot-shaped octopus trap that closely resem...
as-salamu alaikum qur'an weekly, we are on the twentieth juz now, alhamdulilah,we are in the twenty's, and this is surah al-qasas on one of my favorite ayat of thissurah, talking about the mother of musa (alayhi as-salam). i picked this ayah because it'sactually very close to my heart for many reasons, most important of which is, all human beingswill suffer emotionally traumatizing experiences. we're going to be hurt because of loved ones,because of the loss of loved ones, because of sickness, because of the pain our lovedones will cause us, like the hurtful things our parents will say to us or we will sayto our parents. or what our children will say to us, or the wife and the husband willsay to each other, or friends will say to each other. and we're going to go throughtraumatic experiences in life, like you know, job loss or home loss, or even worse. howmany people in the world are living in really horrific situations that we cannot imaginesuffering? children...
- [voiceover] so your heart pumps blood essentially to two places and the first place is your body. so you have your oxygenatedblood on the left side and we gotta remember that the lefts and the rights are switched because we're looking at theanatomical view of the heart. so it pumps it out to your body and your body gets that oxygen. your body uses it upand then circulates it back into the right side where this time it'spumped out to the lungs and gets re-oxygenatedand gets that oxygen back and then it's circulatedback into the left side. and the amount of blood at any time pumped to your body is sortof based on this demand that your body has for blood. you can kind of think ofit like you have this gage that says, "hey, i need this much blood "to sustain this much activity." and this can change, so if you start working out or something, your demands might go up and your heart can accommodate for that and start pumping more blood to that body to meet th...
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