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The Source of All Things: A Heart Surgeon's Quest to Understand Our Most Mysterious Organ

By Dr. Reinhard Friedl
Narrated by: Paul Woodson
Unabridged — 7 hours, 5 minutes
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By Dr. Reinhard Friedl
Narrated by: Paul Woodson
Unabridged — 7 hours, 5 minutes
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The heart is our most important organ. Yet despite that it has not changed since the appearance of Homo sapiens 300,000 years ago, it is also our most mysterious. In most human cultures, it is seen as the source of love, sympathy, joy, courage, strength, and wisdom.



What if the heart could answer questions neurosciences can't begin to? Having witnessed the extraordinary complexity and unpredictability of human hearts in the operating theater-each one individual, like a fingerprint-heart surg...