Author Topic: Do We Really Only Get a Certain Number of Heartbeats in a Lifetime? Here's What Science Says  (Read 248 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

rangerrebew

  • Guest

Do We Really Only Get a Certain Number of Heartbeats in a Lifetime? Here's What Science Says

MIKE MCRAE
14 APR 2018

"I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats," the famous quote goes. "I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises."

Contrary to what you might have heard, Neil Armstrong never said this. What's more, he disagreed with it. But as much as it's a misattribution, was Armstrong right to argue?

https://www.sciencealert.com/relationship-between-heart-beat-and-life-expectancy