How Many Heartbeats Do We Get in Life?
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How Many Heartbeats Do We Get in Life?
Exploring the Relationship Between Heart Rate and Longevity.
Being in our busy daily routines, do you ever take some time to ponder how many times exactly you’d beat your heart in a lifetime? From my early childhood, I was told that man is given about 3 billion heartbeats in his or her lifetime. This ‘preset pulse rate’ concept has always intrigued me – should we be able to slow down our heart rate just a little bit, wouldn’t our lives be longer as a result? Being an avid fitness enthusiast and personal trainer who prefers working past traditional retirement age, it was important for me to find out more regarding this issue. When I did my searching, I came across what I thought to be some pretty interesting findings.
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Research conducted on population average showed that Resting Heart Rate for humans is 60-100 /minute.
Add that to an expected lifetime of roughly 70–80 years, and you end up with abo
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