4 ms·
If you're curious to learn more, look into cold blooded vs warm blooded animals and longevity. Cold blooded animals might give us hints to slow aging in humans.
by stevebmark 3y ago
If you're curious to learn more, look into cold blooded vs warm blooded animals and longevity. Cold blooded animals might give us hints to slow aging in humans.
Energy expenditure might be related to longevity. Eating more and exercising more (and the energy required to keep your core temperature up) might kill you faster, maybe through free radical production from metabolism.
- hackernewds 3y agoso it's safer for me to be a couch potato. got it
- timeagain 3y agoThe Donald trump school of physical excellence [1] As someone who only started to exercise in their mid thirties, the idea of living longer through not exercising is laughable. Even if it were true, I would rather live to 65 with an able body than to live to 90 not knowing what my body was capable of. [1] https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/politics/donald-trump-exercise/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/politics/donald-trump-exercis...
- hnu234 3y ago> Eating more and exercising more (and the energy required to keep your core temperature up) might kill you faster, maybe through free radical production from metabolism. There's a theory that it's actually heartbeats. Most animals have about 1.5 billion heartbeats. "The reason an elephant lives longer than a shrew is not because its heart beats longer. It's because its heart beats slower. So it takes a few more years for the elephant to complete his or her up to one and a half billion beats." https://www.npr.org/2007/08/18/12877984/size-matters-the-hidden-mathematics-of-life https://www.npr.org/2007/08/18/12877984/size-matters-the-hid...