Could Pythons' big hearts hold clues for human health

Leslie Leinwand, a molecular biologist at the University of Colorado Boulder and his team have discovered that when pythons eat all their organs swell in order to digest the food as fast as possible before shrinking down again to slow their metabolism, allowing them to go without food for a year for some pythons. They discovered that 3 specific fatty acids in the blood caused the heart growth but special enzymes that help protect and strengthen the heart are produced more during digestion and less heart damaging enzymes are produced to help the heart pump all the Pythons blood. Also, during digestion a Pythons blood is so full of fat that the blood looks milky and it would kill them if the heart didn't grow up to 40% and pump the blood so fast that the fat in it couldn't clog it's arteries. The team found that the 3 fatty acids that make Pythons hearts grow also affect mice and are eager to test them on mice with human like heart problems to see if it can cure those diseases.

this could be a cure to many heart problems and help many people who have them.

this could affect all the people with heart diseases and their families.