Pulse

Dive into the world of an ice climber, a bus driver, a woman in labor and a senior dance club to show how the human heart and the circulatory system power our physical and emotional lives and create the pulsing rhythm of our world.

It's the circulatory system that provides every cell in our body with the juice they need to function. The human body can only survive about three minutes without oxygen, and it's this incredibly vast network that is responsible for delivering this life-giving gas to all 40 trillion cells in the body.

At the center of the circulatory system is the heart, which works with the lungs to constantly keep the body supplied with freshly oxygenated blood. Every time we breathe in, we are infusing blood flowing through tiny vessels in the lungs with oxygen that can be carried to the furthest reaches of our anatomy.

Staying active and on the move is crucial to our health for a lot of reasons. But it's especially important for the circulatory system to function properly. In fact, our bodies are actually designed so that blood circulation depends on us being in semi-constant motion.