1. By: Lucas H and Trevor M-B

2.  Our question is What minerals are in the heart and what are they used for? We wanted to ask this question because we wanted to know what helped the heart pump.

3.  Minerals are needed in the heart for many reasons. They are needed to regulate your heart beat or to help with the overall heart health.

4.  Potassium is needed to help keep the nerves that are in your heart intact and healthy so your heart can keep working.  For some people that can have a potassium decency they will need to either need to eat foods high in potassium or take a potassium pill.

5.  Niacin is a mineral that is like potassium, it is used to have the heart keep its ability to regulate blood pressure.  Niacin is also a mineral that is used to prevent heart disease, bad cholesterol, and bad liver.

6.  Magnesium is a mineral that is needed for all of the things that were covered in the last two slides. It is used for keeping the nerves in your heart good so it can keep pumping. It is also use to regulate blood pressure and blood sugar.

7.  In the heart there are also minerals that do not stay there, but pass through. This is because of how the heart is a main station that gets all of the minerals and oxygen and put it into the blood to send it out to the body.

8.  At the start of our project we had the question what minerals are in the body. We then changed the question to what minerals are in the heart so we didn’t have to look for so many minerals.

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