The discovery of the so-called ‘heart hormones’ was made accidentally. A Hungarian professor was conducting experiments that involved injecting an old sheep over a long period of time with an extract derived from the heart of a young lamb. As a result of this treatment, the vitality of the old sheep increased; its heart rhythm gained in strength and it was once again able to climb around the hills as if it had been rejuvenated. When the old sheep was killed, the assumption that a rejuvenation had taken place was proved correct by the presence of new heart cells and cells which showed the nucleus to be in the process of dividing. Yet this dividing process is normally only found in young sheep during their growth period. The heart of a young animal is therefore somehow able to cause the nucleus of the heart cells to divide and form new cells. However, this process ceases to occur once the animal has reached maturity.

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