The Strongest Muscle In The Body

What is the strongest muscle? A very tough question that depends on who you ask. Medically, there are several that can be considered such as the heart, jaw, tongue, uterus, the list can go on until you have covered most of the over 630 muscles in the human body.

The strongest muscle is that muscle required to perform work at any given time. It could be a group of muscles or a single muscle. It is the one that responds to the demand and allows us to function almost flawlessly.

If I were to choose the muscle I believe is the front runner as the strongest muscle in the body, I would have to choose the heart.

The heart begins its work approximately 21 days after conception. It is the muscle all other muscles depend to do their work. Beating an average 100,000 times a day, the heart overcomes gravity to provide nutrients to the every organ, muscle, nerve, and tissue.

It is the force that maintains our blood pressure allowing us to breathe and exchange gases at all levels of respiration, ensuring oxygen is provided to all cells of the body and waste products are eliminated.

Unique among all muscles, the heart has the ability to adjust and continue to function under greater stresses than any other. When its blood supply begins to decrease due to clots, it sends out collateral feeds to bypass the clot as its first line of defense. When a heart attack occurs, it has the ability to overcome and continue to function. In an average lifetime, it will beat an average 8,640,000 times if you live to age 75.

I could go on and on listing reasons why the heart should be considered as the strongest muscle in the body. It is the only muscle that life is 100% dependent; its failure to perform its duty, inevitably results is death, therefore, the heart is the strongest muscle in the human body.