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... in mice.
by joss82 7y ago
... in mice.
- DoreenMichele 7y ago...that are running the equivalent of a marathon every night.
- killjoywashere 7y ago... never mind the other potentially adverse effects of platelet activation. Like, you know, clotting.
- gyaniv 7y agoThat's the mentioned exercise.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoYes, it is. But it's quite a lot more exercise than most humans are going to engage in. I spent a few years walking several hours a day. I was unemployed and homeless at the time. It was very beneficial to my health, but I hesitate to "recommend" it because I know what most people will tell me: they can't spend that kind of time walking every day, even if it could potentially save their life.
- Pahr3yah 7y agoyou can install a treadmill under a standing desk and walk while you work.
- mfatica 7y agoI've tried this and for usual tasks it's fine but for tasks that require deep concentration it was inhibiting cognition
- meko 7y agoThat was exactly my experience too. Programming + standing was neigh impossible.
- astura 7y agoIt's incredibly distracting, I couldn't imagine trying to work on a treadmill, I can't even manage to play turn based RPGs on the treadmill on the lowest setting. The only treadmill activities that have worked for me are TV and podcasts.
- TheSpiceIsLife 7y agoI don't know how they can claim to make this comparison. Do an image search for mouse skeleton and compare to dog skeleton. These creatures are hyper specialised to run pretty much nonstop all day every day, as evidenced by the fact that lab mice will voluntarily run 10km when present with a mouse wheel and no prior training. Human running is bound to be way more laborious. The comparison is nonsense. I agree with your broader point though. Edit to add: My previous pup, a Border Collie x German Shorthaired Pointed, after only five introductory sessions, would voluntarily get on the treadmill we had set up for her. There is something inherently different about these creatures. One of my pet theories of why they don't live as long is because they're brains are hardwired to make them act like they're on MDMA and amphetamine all the time.
- xattt 7y agoYour suggestion that exercise is more laborious would suggest that smaller amounts of exertion would be sufficient in achieving the same effect.
- TheSpiceIsLife 7y agoYes, that's my claim.
- _Microft 7y agoYou might find this interesting: most mammals have a maximum number of heartbeats of about 1 billion in their life and the smaller an animal, the faster their heart beats. So the faster the heart beats, the shorter their life is. Why this is a rule, I have no idea. Humans are an exception to this with approximately 4 billion heartbeats possible in life. It is only mentioned in the german Wikipedia [0] but not in the english. [0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzfrequenz#Herzfrequenz_bei_Tieren https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzfrequenz#Herzfrequenz_bei_... Edit: citations 5 and 6 might be a good starting point to delve into this.
- TheSpiceIsLife 7y agoI’ve come across this idea before. I wonder how active a person would have to be over a life time compared to an inactive person to run out or heart beats and die before the inactive person succumbed to the maladies of the lazy.
- dang 7y agoOk, we've put some mice in the title above.