2025-08-15
21 分钟Is there a correlation between our health outcomes, how long we'll live,
and our lung capacity, our VO2 max, and all of that stuff?
Is there a correlation there?
So I had the same question years ago and I started looking into it and it turns out that numerous studies have found that the healthier and larger your lungs are,
the longer you will live.
That is the greatest indicator of lifespan was lung size and lung health.
The greatest indicator.
The greatest indicator.
According to these studies, the Framingham study looked at 5,200 people over the course of 70 years,
and they found that the people who lived the longest had the largest and healthiest lung function.
They even did studies in which they were looking at people who had lung transplants,
so surgically implanted lungs,
those who are given larger lungs lived way longer than those given normal size or smaller lungs.
So no matter how you get these larger lungs, it's better.
And luckily, we don't need to get a transplant to do this.
we can practice healthy breathing we can practice stretches we can exercise and this naturally can keep our lung size up it's very sad when you start looking at these charts of what happens after you're 30 you're almost there so get ready it's a real bummer but your lung function starts dropping off very quickly.
And especially for women around 50 and 60, your lung function and your lung size starts shrinking,
shrinking, shrinking up, which means at the time you need more oxygen more easily.
It's much harder to get that.
And that's where people's health really starts disintegrating.