Your Second Brain is in your Heart - Believe Your Emotions

A second brain in the heart is now much more than a hypothesis. Heart transplanted Memories is the discovery by prominent medical experts that recipients of heart transplants are reporting huge changes in their tastes, their personality, and, most extraordinarily, in their memories. Today new science is testing the theory that the heart is involved in our feelings, that it is intelligent and that it sometimes can lead the brain in our interpretation of the world around us.

Case Studies

A large number of case studies were enough to prompt some scientists to look differently at the heart and test old theories, that the heart is involved in our feelings and emotions. In the last 40 years we have developed the ability to transplant a heart from one body to another. In that time intriguing experiences have emerged from recipients.

These are only a few of the many cases reported as evidence of something new and extraordinary happening to heart transplant recipients.

A gentle, soft spoken woman who never drank alcohol and hated football got a heart from a crashed biker donor and turned into an aggressive beer drinking football fan.

A lazy male couch potato received a heart from a stuntman and became an athlete.

A man who could barely write suddenly developed a talent for poetry.

A 47-year-old Caucasian male received a heart from a 17-year-old African-American male. The recipient was surprised by his new-found love of classical music. What he discovered later was that the donor, who loved classical music and played the violin, had died in a drive-by shooting, clutching his violin case to his chest.

An eight-year-old girl received the heart of a ten-year-old girl who had been murdered. After the transplant, the recipient had horrifying nightmares of a man murdering her donor. The dreams were so traumatic that psychiatric help was sought.

The girl’s images were so specific that the psychiatrist and the mother notified the police. According to the psychiatrist, using the description from the little girl, they found the murderer. He was easily convicted with the evidence the patient provided.

Doctors now attempt to explain why organ recipients are hosts to donors’ memories and emotions, also known as "cellular memories". While a handful of scientists are sceptical dismissing this strange phenomenon as post-surgery stress or reaction to anti-organ rejection drugs, there are also a growing number of experts who believe cellular memories are indeed transplanted with organs.

Such new heart recipients and many more were so intrigued by their new personalities that they sought out who their donors were. Upon meeting, their hunches were confirmed: the new personality traits had been passed on from their donors. Families of donors bond with the recipients, feeling that there is still something left of their lost loved one inside the body of a living person. Neurologist Dr. Andrew Amour from Montreal in Canada discovered a sophisticated collection of neurons in

Dr. Candace Pert, a pharmacologist and professor at Georgetown University believes that the mind is not just in the brain, but also exists throughout the body. This school of thought could explain such strange transplant experiences. "The mind and body communicate with each other through chemicals known as peptides", says Dr. Pert. "These peptides are found in the brain as well as in the stomach, in muscles and in all of our major organs. I believe that memory can be accessed anywhere in the peptide/receptor network. For instance, a memory associated with food may be linked to the pancreas or liver and such associations can be transplanted from one person to another".

"The implication is that it's important for the neurons to have the feedback for the learning to take place. By extension any system that has feedback is going to therefore learn. We learn to shoot a ball into a basketball net by getting feedback about whether we are accurate or not. We learn to speak by getting feedback about whether we're accurate or not. And so consequently, any system, any set of cells that has feedback mechanisms in a network is going to learn the same way that neurons learn. That's what is called feedback memory."

A heart transplant is now a routine operation. The heart has been seen for centuries as a symbolic organ associated with love and emotion.

Research now shows that the poets and great scholars throughout history have been right all along. The heart has intelligence and plays a particular role in our experience of emotion and memory.

Here are only 3 of the many sources I researched to write this Hub: Your Second Brain is in your Heart, Believe your Emotions:-

Cellular Memory

Cellular Memory in Heart Transplants

Organ Transplants and Cellular Memories