That fist-sized muscle in your chest quietly pumps away, pushing blood through roughly 60,000 miles of blood vessels day and night without a single break. Pretty impressive when you think about it.

1 The heart beats about 100,000 times daily, enough to push blood through the 60,000 miles of blood vessels that feed your organs and tissues.

The invisible traffic jam happening in your veins Think of your circulatory system as a massive highway network with over 60,000 miles of blood vessels. When traffic slows down on these biological ...

The human circulatory system is made up of about 60,000 miles of blood vessels, including arteries, veins and capillaries – this is long enough to stretch around the Earth if laid end-to-end.

The heart, the blood vessels and the kidneys work together in taking care of the fluids of the body. In good health, fluid swallowed as drink or inj food is absorbed from the lower intestine into ...