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Every single longevity (life extension) supplement or drug or technique that I've ever looked at involves pushing the person DOWN to a baseline Which means ev
by ck2 2y ago
Every single longevity (life extension) supplement or drug or technique that I've ever looked at involves pushing the person DOWN to a baseline
Which means even if they work to give you more years, you will lose fitness.
It is physically impossible to be held down to baseline and yet achieve stress-adaptation from exercise.
Everything from NAD+ supplementation to metformin to fasting, they all push your metabolism and other bodily function to an idle state.
It is useless, you'll live longer but you will be feeble.
- bratwurst3000 2y agoi thought about this also but then there is this recent science that the body of a office worker uses the same calories as someone doing body work. saw it on kurzgesagt. so by this theory humans should be very energetic even with only the baseline
- ck2 2y agoI only burn 80 calories when running a 7 minute mile but the average person uses a lot more if they are untrained. The office-worker uses the same calories as a workout because they have no fitness and their heartrate is sky high even at idle.
- squidgedcricket 2y agoIs heart rate directly proportional to calories burned?
- FollowingTheDao 2y agoYes, there is a balance. IF you think of your body like a car it can make sense. The more you drive your car the faster it will wear down. Not driving your car can help it last a long time but it is useless. But driving it to much and too fast will wear it down before its' time. Drive your car when you need to, but not too fast. And make sure you give it good gas and take care of the fluids and maintenance. And live knowing that everything is impermanent and one day your car will be gone.
- smolder 2y agoThank you for continuing the long tradition of using car analogies to explain things on message boards. This is a pretty good one.