Elspeth Kirkman
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Saturday 19 July 2025 13:21:32 GMT
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rdlbh :
please everyone don't apply this to individuals, they compared species. your life expectancy is not a function of how many breaths you've taken
2025-07-19 15:35:50
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Cap :
To me all I am reading is not to go running.
2025-07-19 13:39:34
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Bernthechef :
thank you for being the person who is interested in this information, being smart enough to comprehend it, & being kind enough to share. thank you.
2025-07-19 14:19:34
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JaneMarry :
surely do take a slow breath instead of many quick ones? this is how stress kills isn't it
2025-07-19 13:33:30
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swearyprincess :
i think there's a similar relationship between bladder and urethra size so almost all mammals empty a full bladder in a very close amount of time?
2025-07-19 14:00:03
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Jupiter ✨ :
So breathing is the largest main cause of death. Neat!
2025-07-21 10:31:25
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ihaveacunningplan :
I have always said it was related to the number of heartbeats. But this makes perfect sense. Awesome paper. Mind blown!
2025-07-19 13:51:04
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RabbitBe :
wait... that explains why cardio can extend life. runners have lower resting heart rates, and I assume lower respiration rates?
2025-07-19 15:51:03
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hell_tontine :
so I guess it's about how much total oxygen the body can churn through? we basically are born, oxidize, defend against oxidization, then die.
2025-07-19 19:47:11
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Guer rila :
My brother died at 12, he must have been breathing 190 times a minute his whole life, that's more than three breaths a second! Weirdest thing, I never even noticed it.
2025-07-19 13:52:37
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Jurbul :
I’m never breathing again. I’m going to live forever!
2025-07-19 17:42:49
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Tinned Meat Product :
Respiration Cycle is exactly why I carefully avoid getting out of breath.
2025-07-19 13:42:10
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Mikki :
Metabolism (and mass/size) also affects your perception of time as well. Smaller creatures perceive time slower, which is why they often seem to have lightning reflexes. So in a sense, a mouse has a faster rate-of-living because it's literally living faster.
2025-07-19 17:39:30
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John :
My first thought was the opposite, slow down and take a breath, and enjoy it because you only get 100 million of them.
2025-07-19 16:04:05
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bishboshbash1638 :
that chart shows a logarithmic scale which is exaggerating allot how strong the correlation appears. the difference between 10^12 and 10^14 is 1 million vs 100 million, and the spread of data points on the chart almost covers that range on the dependant variable axis. there's actually a very large spread of breaths per lifetime and the correlation isnt that strong. if it was a linear scale they used, there would be way more scatter and the correlation would be allot more difficult to see
2025-07-20 09:25:22
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Make52Things :
I shouldn’t be this excited that I FINALLY knew a thing before you. This idea is the basis for a “final thought” piece at the end of one of my live shows called “heartbeats”. PS: Love what you do.
2025-07-19 15:04:20
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Sukuna’s Object :
This is why I hate when I can feel my dogs breathe, it is so fast, like slow down bestie I need you to stay here for a long time 😭
2025-07-19 16:18:52
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BetaFather :
• Author: Geoffrey West • Year: 2017 • Title: Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies
2025-07-19 16:05:40
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Naomi Croft817 :
Respiration as in breathing cycle or as in the chemical break down of energy?
2025-07-19 13:37:58
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daftandsuch :
Brilliant! Let's set a rule - no being can own more money than thier respective total respiration cycle 😁😜x
2025-07-19 14:19:05
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Gee Aitch 🇦🇺🦘 :
That has the average human lifespan at 11.8 years, assuming 16 breaths per minute 🤪
2025-07-19 22:21:45
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Fernfernferns :
Well. I’m going to think and worry about every breath I ever take now. Thank you
2025-07-19 15:15:59
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B :
About 20 years ago I came over a paper calculating pretty much the same, but via heartbeat. They concluded that an elephant and a mouse achieve (on a population level) roughly the same amount of heartbeats per their median lifespan. Dunno if that was later confirmed or disproved, but it stacuk with me.
2025-07-19 17:29:03
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Santiago Verón :
this reminds me of one of the latter Borges poems, where he talks about a chalkboard where it's written how many times your heart will beat before you die
2025-07-19 16:35:12
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Shtee :
why oh why aren't you broadcasting on prime time TV your content is so much more interesting/professional/entertaining/amusing/educational than ANYTHING mainstream is dribbling out thanks as always Elspeth. You have yourself a great day now !
2025-07-19 14:56:57
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