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Your heart pumps blood constantly. The blood is always moving through your arteries, veins, and capillaires. The arteries have muscle on their outside, which also squeezes blood. Veins do not have extra muscle, but they do have one-way valves inside them. These valves let blood go through in one direction as the heart pumps. Then, as the heart relaxes, the valves shut so that the blood doesn't slip backwards. In this way, the blood can move up from the feet back to the heart.

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