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They say in India, When we are born, we are given a certain number of breaths. The quicker we spend our breaths, the sooner we die. Tortoise breaths 4 times pe
by girishso 6y ago
They say in India, When we are born, we are given a certain number of breaths. The quicker we spend our breaths, the sooner we die. Tortoise breaths 4 times per minute and lives for ~300 years.
- jml7c5 6y agoThere are similar sayings around number of heartbeats. It's fun to imagine, but it's not particularly scientific.
- garren 6y agoI’ve heard something similar in the past, and there are at least a couple studies that support the idea [0][1] “...humans have on average a heart rate of around 60 to 70 beats per minute, give or take. We live roughly 70 or so years, giving us just over 2 billion beats all up.”[2] Other animals follow a similar trend, according to [2], and I find that to be much more interesting. [0] https://heart.bmj.com/content/99/12/882 https://heart.bmj.com/content/99/12/882 [1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1741826710394274 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/174182671039427... [2] https://www.sciencealert.com/relationship-between-heart-beat-and-life-expectancy https://www.sciencealert.com/relationship-between-heart-beat...
- girishso 6y agoBut we do not have direct control over heart to make it beat slower. Maybe slow breathing is a way to slow the heart beats.