Don’t know. However, the heart is a muscle. Don’t think that the Kidney or Gallbladder etc. qualify as a muscle. Apparently the body shuts down Muscle growth etc. when Flu/inflammation hits.
Brought over from old thread:
University of Minnesota, Mayo report COVID-fighting success with anti-aging therapy
Clearing out so-called zombie cells could reduce inflammation and immune system overreaction to COVID-19 that often causes severe illnesses and deaths.
Excerpt:
Tests of an anti-aging therapy in mice are boosting hopes at Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota about a potential COVID-19 treatment that could reduce deaths and hospitalizations and improve vaccine effectiveness.
Survival increased in mice with COVID-like illnesses when they received drugs that removed senescent cells — sometimes called “retirement” or “zombie” cells that no longer divide or grow, but persist in the body, according to research published Tuesday by Mayo and U researchers in the journal Science.
While success in mice doesn’t guarantee success in people, the results give the researchers confidence as they proceed with two human clinical trials in which they remove senescent cells from COVID-19 patients using high doses of the supplement fisetin. Senescent cells increase with age and chronic disease and could explain why older and unhealthier people make up more than 90% of Minnesota’s 7,477 COVID-19 deaths.
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And fisetin is available at vitamin and health food stores.
The heart is an organ. There are 3 types of muscle. Skeletal muscle, smooth muscle, and cardiac muscle. Cardiac muscle once injured does not regenerate, unlike the other two types of muscle.
This helps to identify injuries to the heart even if they were in the past, as the electrical impulses are forced to divert around the dead cardiac muscle. Myocardial infarction, myocardial ischemia, and myocardial injury are commonly referred to as ‘heart attacks.’
People can experience such injuries without actually being aware of it but ordinarily an EKG can reveal just where damage has been done.