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I wonder how much a lower resting heart rate average over a lifespan influences average life expectancy. Is it enough for us to consider lower heart rate as an

I wonder how much a lower resting heart rate average over a lifespan influences average life expectancy. Is it enough for us to consider lower heart rate as an ideal value to optimize? Obviously being in better shape and see often correlated.

reasonattlm 11y ago
Rate of living theories are somewhat discredited. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_of_living_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_of_living_theory There is some question over correlation of resting metabolic rate and mitochondrial constituents as a correlation of species life span, but that is totally separate from considerations of variations in life span within a species. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/rej.2008.0676 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/rej.2008.0676 Nonetheless, resting metabolic rate does seem to predict human longevity: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3100751/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3100751/ Interestingly the Palo Alto Longevity Prize is using heart rate variability as a metric to optimize in mammals: http://paloaltoprize.com/ http://paloaltoprize.com/