{"id":135438,"date":"2022-02-10T08:22:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T16:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/revolutionary-bionic-pacemaker-capable-of-reversing-heart-failure-now-set-for-human-trials"},"modified":"2022-02-10T08:22:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T16:22:36","slug":"revolutionary-bionic-pacemaker-capable-of-reversing-heart-failure-now-set-for-human-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/revolutionary-bionic-pacemaker-capable-of-reversing-heart-failure-now-set-for-human-trials","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionary \u2018bionic\u2019 pacemaker capable of reversing heart failure now set for human trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8hTLFdhoodc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>AUCKLAND, New Zealand \u2014 <\/strong>We may be on the medical precipice of turning back time, or actually reversing the heart rhythm effects of cardiac events. A potentially game-changing \u201cbionic\u201d pacemaker capable of restoring the human heart\u2019s naturally irregular beat is set to undergo trials involving heart patients in New Zealand this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.studyfinds.org\/smartphones-interfere-pacemakers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all pacemakers<\/a> pace the heart metronomically, which means a very steady, even pace. But when you record heart rate in a healthy individual, you see it is constantly on the move,\u201d says professor Julian Paton, a lead researcher and director of Manaaki Manawa, the Centre for Heart Research at the University of Auckland, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auckland.ac.nz\/en\/news\/2022\/02\/02\/-bionic--pacemaker-achieves-impressive-results.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">university release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Current pacemakers just can\u2019t mimic the perfectly irregular pace of a naturally <a href=\"https:\/\/studyfinds.org\/category\/heart-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">healthy human heart,<\/a> Paton explains. This new version, though, may change everything. \u201cIf you analyze the frequencies within your heart rate, you find the heart rate is coupled to your breathing. It goes up on inspiration, and it goes down on expiration, and that is a natural phenomenon in all animals and humans. And we\u2019re talking about very ancient animals that were on the planet 430 million years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUCKLAND, New Zealand \u2014 We may be on the medical precipice of turning back time, or actually reversing the heart rhythm effects of cardiac events. A potentially game-changing \u201cbionic\u201d pacemaker capable of restoring the human heart\u2019s naturally irregular beat is set to undergo trials involving heart patients in New Zealand this year. \u201cCurrently, all pacemakers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}