{"id":54064,"date":"2024-12-25T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T04:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/?p=54064"},"modified":"2025-05-06T21:59:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T20:59:26","slug":"foreign-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/foreign-heart.html","title":{"rendered":"A Foreign Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

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People who have had a heart transplant have tastes and memories<\/a> that do not belong to them. One may wonder if the new heart would not have brought with it fragments of memory of its former owner. This idea may seem strange to old-school zombies, it has nothing to surprise an awakened person<\/a>, scientific or not.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThe gift of the heart<\/h4>\n

The observation was made by several people who had undergone a heart transplant. They have emotions, tastes, memories that donors would have. Why not? Scientists are serious about the number of these testimonies.<\/p>\n

And I approve of them. Our body is capable of storing memories elsewhere than in the brain, my personal research has shown me this time and again. That these new habits could be transmitted by a transplanted organ seems to me more than an hypothesis.<\/p>\n

In the case of heart transplants, the question is so relevant that Saudi researchers have devoted a medical study published in April 2024 to it. It shows that after a heart transplant, patients report changes in their tastes, preferences for food, music, and even sexual orientation.<\/p>\n

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Living the death of another<\/h4>\n

These changes refer to the deceased donor\u2019s taste or, more surprisingly, the way in which he died. For example, a transplant patient would have developed a water phobia after receiving an organ from a drowning victim. One is typically in the memory of the body whose primary role is to protect this body. No need to be a human, even an animal will have the same phobia.<\/p>\n

Another study<\/a>published in March 2002 in the Journal of Near-Death Studies<\/span> discusses a woman who developed an unrestrained taste for chicken nuggets after being transplanted by a man who was fond of it. “She was a dancer and choreographer, concerned about her health. Upon discharge from hospital, she felt an uncontrollable urge to go to a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurant and order chicken nuggets, a food she had never eaten. [… ] Interestingly, uneaten KFC nuggets were found in the young man\u2019s jacket when he was killed.”<\/em> (source)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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The heart has brain<\/h4>\n

Confronted with the many accounts of ‘grafted memories’, researchers tried to understand the mechanisms that could explain such experiences. They formulated the following four assumptions:<\/p>\n

-Cellular memory<\/strong>: individual cells or networks of non-neuronal cells could store memories. Would new cells from the donor be able to reconfigure pre-existing connections?
\n-Epigenetic modifications<\/strong>: reversible changes that would alter gene expression without altering the DNA sequence. Transplantation may cause such alterations.
\n-Energy interactions<\/strong>: here, the researchers are thinking about the possible influence of the electromagnetic field of the transplanted heart, especially if it is different in size from the original organ. As far as energy is concerned, I think of different interactions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In this world of lies, only my sincerity is true.<\/p>