Chapter 514: Chapter 353: Clairvoyance and Clairaudience
Upon realizing Wang Ye seemed to have no heartbeat,
the doctor’s face paled visibly.
Fortunately, this eerie calm didn’t last long.
Wang Ye’s heart suddenly thumped once.
It pumped out a large amount of blood, causing the arteries throughout his body to pulse.
In fact, the blood in the arteries was already flowing slowly.
But this sudden expansion and contraction of the heart instantly pumped out a massive amount of blood, increasing the speed of blood flow in the arteries by more than ten times.
For an average person, a single heartbeat can pump seventy milliliters of blood; Wang Ye’s heartbeat now pumps seven hundred milliliters or even a liter of blood, filling the five fist-sized ventricles and atria with blood in an instant, then contracting to eject it all at once.
The power and capacity are truly terrifying.
"So there is a heartbeat, it’s just the frequency that’s too low," the doctor suddenly realized, but then began questioning internally, "But this frequency is ridiculously low! Can such a heart rate really supply enough blood?"
It’s important to know that resting heart rate usually varies with ejection capacity; athletes have strong heart muscles, high function, and large reserve hearts, so their ejection ability is excellent, with each heartbeat pumping out blood volumes equivalent to several ordinary heartbeats,
plus the bodily consumption during rest is not significant,
so the resting heart rate is much lower than that of ordinary people.
For those with poor physical condition, the heart muscle is usually weak, requiring a high heart rate to supply the body’s needs, leaving the heart in a state of fatigue for a long time due to frequent beats, making it susceptible to heart diseases. The commonly mentioned angina is a constricting or pressing sensation in the chest due to the heart muscle failing to receive adequate blood supply.
Of course, extremes can lead to problems; athletes may have a sinus bradycardia but still encounter issues.
Most athletes, aside from sinus bradycardia, may also suffer from myocardial hypertrophy and other conditions.
In sports like weightlifting and wrestling, athletes’ hearts typically have thickened heart walls, whereas in endurance sports like swimming and long-distance running, the heart chambers are enlarged with heart wall thickening.
The degree of hypertrophy is significant,
as ordinary people’s hearts generally weigh around 250 grams,
while a marathon runner’s heart might go up to around 500 grams.
However, hypertrophy caused by exercise returns to normal once endurance sports stop,
whereas pathological hypertrophy tends to worsen.
Therefore, athletes’ conditions are reversible; a brief cessation of training can return them to normal, but prolonged training can lead to serious physical burdens.
These situations are also common in units with extremely high training intensity.
Especially doctors who conduct physical examinations have seen at least hundreds of strong hearts.
But they’ve never seen a heart as outrageous as Wang Ye’s.
Leaving aside the extraordinarily large heart size,
there’s the once-per-minute heartbeat rate.
The doctor couldn’t even imagine how many milliliters of blood must be pumped with each beat for Wang Ye to maintain normal activity at such a heart rate.
He continued to use the probe on Wang Ye’s chest to check the heart’s condition.
There were no problems in that aspect; though the heart rate was indeed too slow.
The doctor held the probe on Wang Ye’s chest for two minutes and only observed two heartbeats.
Despite the large volumes of blood being pumped with each heartbeat,
this baffling heart rate left the doctor internally puzzled.
Normal understanding dictates that the lower the resting heart rate, the higher the maximum heart rate.
The resting heart rate of approximately forty beats per minute in marathon runners can have their maximum heart rate soar above two hundred per minute, whereas for an average person, exceeding 180 per minute poses a life threat.
So, for someone like Wang Ye whose resting heart rate can be as low as once per minute, what degree could the maximum heart rate reach, three hundred beats per minute? Or even four hundred?
If this finding were to be published as a paper, it might cause an uproar in the entire biological community.
Never mind dissecting for research; even a vial of Wang Ye’s blood could fetch a multimillion-dollar price.
Such rare occurrences typically imagined only in fictional works certainly possess invaluable research potential, possibly even unlocking the secrets of immortality.
Since generally, slower heart rates correlate with longer lifespans—research has shown that every additional heartbeat per minute reduces average lifespan by four months, although this method of calculation may lack rigor as lifespan depends more on overall physical strength than just resting heart rate, which is merely a by-product of being strong.
Still, the saying "slower heart rates equate to longer lifespans" holds some validity; for someone like Wang Ye who has a resting heart rate of one beat per minute, his internal organs must be incomprehensibly strong, surely harboring undiscovered human secrets.
Hence, uncovering the secrets of immortality from Wang Ye might still be possible,
and merely this possibility is enough for countless billionaires to heavily invest in Wang Ye’s life.
Realizing this, the doctor’s pupils involuntarily trembled,
knowing that this secret must be kept.
Otherwise, it would lead to unimaginable chaos.
