A Broken Heart Can Kill You

DR.STEPHEN OPPENHEIMER, a top director of John Hopkins University, reveals that it is true that a broken heart can kill you. What's more, he says you can even die from a voodoo curse.


The top director explained clearly that it is because your brain sends the heart messages that can stop it from beating when you are terrified or from suffering devastating emotional stress.

He has done studies to both rats and human to pinpoint the part of the brain which links the heart for thought and emotions. Finally Dr. Stephen Oppenheimer found a key to control the heart in an area of the brain that is called the insular cortex.


The director of neurology department's celebral vascular division at John Hopkins, Dr. Oppenheimer said "The insular cortex maybe sensitive for stress that can result in increased heart rate".


The insular cortex can cause more than just an increased heart rate, if it is damaged by an extreme emotional stress. Really it can cause sudden death. The expert said, "That's what most likely happens if people die suddenly for no apparent reason after losing a mate. Insular cortex can also be affected by fear, that is why people can die after becoming the target of a voodoo curse," he added.


According to him, in America, when he says to someone, he is going to a place a spell on you, they will probably laugh at him. But in a culture where people believe that spirits can be called on to do you harm, the threat of a voodoo curse goes right to the insular cortex. To tell the truth, it can result in an instantaneous death!

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