Breathing, your hidden superpower, with James Nestor
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Why Do People With Larger Lungs Live for Longer?
People with larger lung capacity live for longer. You are operating more efficiently when you have larger lungs. The reason is you can take fewer breaths, and in those breaths, you get more oxygen. An increase of about 20 beats in your heart rate per minute equals about a 30 to 50 % increase in mortality. So the faster your heart is beating at rest is the more chance it can help determine how soon you are going to die.
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