Fish hearts expose toxic truth about our cardiovascular health

Fish hearts expose toxic truth about our cardiovascular health Professor Holly Shiels, from the University of Manchester, is the Director of the Company of Biologists and the President of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles. She charts a toxic tide by tracing the path of pollutants from fish hearts to human cardiovascular health. It’s widely known that pollutants damage our oceans. But after researching the effects of an oil spill on the health of fish hearts, Professor Holly Shiels made an alarming discovery - our own hearts are affected in the same way. An explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig off the southern coast of the United States in 2010 unleashed nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over an excruciating 87 days. This catastrophic event caused one of the most severe ecological disasters in history, devastating the marine environment and obliterating countless forms of life. The scale of environmental devastation was unprecedented, leaving a lasting scar on the region’s fragile habitat.