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Re:400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ ... by grawprog on Saturday March 27, 2021 @01:32PM (#26603863)
Heartrate has been found to play a big part.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9316546/

Animals with slower heart rates tend to be longer lived. An interesting sidenote are bats, which have heart rates about the same as similarly sized small mammals like mice, but due to their nightly torpor state where their heart rate is significantly lowered, they tend to live 20-25 years opposed to the 3-4 mice usually live.

Re:400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ ... by rubicon33 on Saturday March 27, 2021 @01:57PM (#26604054)
Assuming this is true, I recommend everyone start running!

If I am regularly running, my resting heart rate at night drops into the upper 30s. During the day sitting down, 45-50.

If I haven't been running (for a week or longer) it picks back up in to the mid 40s at night, and around 60 for normal sitting.

Re:400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ ... by yesenadam on Saturday March 27, 2021 @08:48PM (#26607074)
(Assuming you're not joking) You don't seem to be counting all the extra times your heart beats when you're actually running.
Re:400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ ... by raducu on Saturday March 27, 2021 @02:25PM (#26604274)
Welp... guess I'll die young.

My heart rate when sleeping is 65bpm, and I can't focus on anuthing if my heart rate is below 90bpm during the day.

Re:400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ ... by rubicon33 on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:59PM (#26607568)
For what it's worth - I'm a firm believer that what is always healthy for your body, is not always healthy for your mind.

Some of the most productive people I know eat nothing but donuts and coffee, and don't exercise at all. They're smart, driven, and highly successful.

Meanwhile, I know a lot of people who put exercise and food as a priority, and don't seem nearly as sharp or as successful. Maybe this all washes out, with age.

Point is - do whatever works for you. Don't let some blog, or some person on the internet, tell you how to perform optimally!

Re:400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ ... by raducu on Sunday March 28, 2021 @03:26AM (#26608632)
I did see a cardiologist after COVID-19, he did prescribe some medicine to "calm my heart down a bit", I don't meet actual criteria for tachycardia and he agree in the end that I can postpone medicine if I start any aerobic exercise -- which I still didn't, except for VR games, which can be really intense, but alas, I don't have the time for or discipline.
Re:400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ ... by buserror on Saturday March 27, 2021 @05:26PM (#26605791)
You heart might survive, but your joints probably won't. The stress you put on them when running/sporting when young will come back to haunt you later on!

Don't ask me how I know :-)

Re:400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ ... by Accacin on Saturday March 27, 2021 @07:27PM (#26606576)
This is not true, take your time and run in moderation and you'll have no increased risk of joint pain when you get older.
Re:400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ ... by iamacyborg on Saturday March 27, 2021 @07:11PM (#26606472)
Guess I’ll go for a swim!
Re:400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ ... by dnhz on Saturday March 27, 2021 @07:47PM (#26606716)
Birds are metabolically much more active than mammals yet many have long lifespans. This prompted another finding that the number of cortical neurons can explain a large part of the variation in lifespan across species.

https://www.labroots.com/trending/cell-and-molecular-biology...

Re:400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ ... by CryptoPunk on Sunday March 28, 2021 @02:56AM (#26608556)
Flight gives birds greater protection from predation, which makes evolution towards biologies that pay a higher metabolic cost for greater longevity more advantageous. The same thing applies to larger animals, like cows, which tend to have longer lifespans once you normalize for heart/metabolic rate.
Re:400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ ... by fallat on Saturday March 27, 2021 @01:53PM (#26604027)
Hmm, less stress, lower heart rate, longer life.
Re:400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ ... by wonderwonder on Saturday March 27, 2021 @11:32PM (#26607721)
I have read a few studies saying that periodic fasting / starvation can play a role as well.