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by hnu234
880 days ago
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> 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-hid... |
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