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How can your heart pump thousands of gallons of blood daily when you have only a few quarts in you body?
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∙ 12y ago
The blood throughput of the heart may be "thousands of gallons" a day but it re-pumps the same blood over and over again. The blood throughput of the heart is about 5 L/min (7 m3/d) which amounts to about 2,000 gallons (US) a day. The human body contains about 5 quarts of blood.
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