Synchronized Swimming – Episode 126

In this podcast Charlie recalls a piece of biological research he did 57 years ago, at college. He pursued the question: how is it that the 2 billion cells of the human heart, each of which has on its own the capacity to contract, beat in synchrony from birth to death every second or so? What are the biological structures that make that possible? And what does it teach us about cooperation, community, interdependency, and synchrony? View video version of this podcast

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Synchronized Swimming – Episode 126 is an episode from A Podcast with Charlie Swenson - To Hell and Back by Charlie Swenson, MD.

This episode is 28:04 long.

This episode was published on Apr 9, 2026.

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