Youve never heard that before? There is some science behind it. But interestingly enough, simple google searches are not going to find what I am looking for.
This is pretty close to what I am thinking.
Some 80 years ago, biologists stumbled on the empirical "quarter power scaling rule," which states that a mammal's heartbeat is proportional to the creature's mass taken to the minus one-quarter power (m-1/4). The rule says that a cat, for instance, weighing roughly 100 times more than a mouse, has a pulse rate 100-1/4 (about one third) that of a mouse; it's actually 150 versus 500 beats per minute (bpm).
It's not just that as animals get bigger their pulses slow in accordance with the quarter power rule, but that their life spans lengthen accordingly: A mouse lives about one third of a cat's lifespan, five years versus 15 years. The quarter power rule holds across a vast range of sizes, from tiny shrew to huge elephant, leading to the astonishing "heartbeat hypothesis:" Humans aside, at birth, mammals are all granted the same lifetime supply of heartbeats. How many? About a billion. Compare "total heartbeats" in the following list:
Pygmy shrew: 1.02 billion total heartbeats (1300 bpm, 1.5 year average lifespan) Mouse: 1.31 billion (500 bpm, 5 years) Cat: 1.18 billion (150 bpm, 15 years) Human: 2.24 billion heartbeats (60 bpm, 71 years) Horse: 0.93 billion (44 bpm, 40 years) Elephant: 1.03 billion (28 bpm, 70 years)
Note that we're the exception. If humans followed the "one billion heartbeat" rule, we'd be pushing up the daisies around age 32. (Contrary to popular myth, the maximum lifespan of humans hasn't increased that much over the centuries — used to be, plenty of people lived to age 70 if they were able to avoid disease and violence.) What's so special about us that we manage to avoid the billion-heartbeat hypothesis, and live three times as long as we "should?"
Probably because we have long periods of adolescence compared with other creatures. Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould attributed this happy state of affairs to our "neotenic" evolution, whereby as adults we have retained the juvenile features of our ancestors. We thus have much longer gestation and childhood periods than comparably-sized mammals. If members of other species could reason, they might well envy our seemingly eternal youth as we live out our long adolescences.
So yeah, I would wager if you keep your metabolism low, your gonna live longer.
Ive lived a pretty calm life, only major health problems was the refrigerant poisoning and the hypertensive blood pressure from it.
Im almost 40, but people swear im late 20's.......
I went in bought liquor a few years back and this chinese lady asks to see my ID.
Acts astonished and proceeds to tell me "You must have really good genes."
Last time I bought my dope, some guy looks at my id and goes, there is no way in hell I would have guessed you were older than me. More than likely, genetics is probably the biggest role, with metabolism playing a very small part, but who knows.
Youve never heard that before? There is some science behind it. But interestingly enough, simple google searches are not going to find what I am looking for.
This is pretty close to what I am thinking.
Some 80 years ago, biologists stumbled on the empirical "quarter power scaling rule," which states that a mammal's heartbeat is proportional to the creature's mass taken to the minus one-quarter power (m-1/4). The rule says that a cat, for instance, weighing roughly 100 times more than a mouse, has a pulse rate 100-1/4 (about one third) that of a mouse; it's actually 150 versus 500 beats per minute (bpm).
It's not just that as animals get bigger their pulses slow in accordance with the quarter power rule, but that their life spans lengthen accordingly: A mouse lives about one third of a cat's lifespan, five years versus 15 years. The quarter power rule holds across a vast range of sizes, from tiny shrew to huge elephant, leading to the astonishing "heartbeat hypothesis:" Humans aside, at birth, mammals are all granted the same lifetime supply of heartbeats. How many? About a billion. Compare "total heartbeats" in the following list:
Pygmy shrew: 1.02 billion total heartbeats (1300 bpm, 1.5 year average lifespan) Mouse: 1.31 billion (500 bpm, 5 years) Cat: 1.18 billion (150 bpm, 15 years) Human: 2.24 billion heartbeats (60 bpm, 71 years) Horse: 0.93 billion (44 bpm, 40 years) Elephant: 1.03 billion (28 bpm, 70 years)
Note that we're the exception. If humans followed the "one billion heartbeat" rule, we'd be pushing up the daisies around age 32. (Contrary to popular myth, the maximum lifespan of humans hasn't increased that much over the centuries — used to be, plenty of people lived to age 70 if they were able to avoid disease and violence.) What's so special about us that we manage to avoid the billion-heartbeat hypothesis, and live three times as long as we "should?"
Probably because we have long periods of adolescence compared with other creatures. Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould attributed this happy state of affairs to our "neotenic" evolution, whereby as adults we have retained the juvenile features of our ancestors. We thus have much longer gestation and childhood periods than comparably-sized mammals. If members of other species could reason, they might well envy our seemingly eternal youth as we live out our long adolescences.
So yeah, I would wager if you keep your metabolism low, your gonna live longer.
Ive lived a pretty calm life, only major health problems was the refrigerant poisoning and the hypertensive blood pressure from it.
Im almost 40, but people swear im late 20's.......
I went in bought liquor a few years back and this chinese lady asks to see my ID.
Acts astonished and proceeds to tell me "You must have really good genes."
Last time I bought my dope, some guy looks at my id and goes, there is no way in hell I would have guessed you were older than me.
Im betting same as you, that genetics is probably the biggest role, with metabolism playing a very small part, but who knows.