[ExI] for longer life

[Adrian Tymes]

On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 4:43 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> The #1 stress cause:  death of a spouse.  So don't have one.  They just
> get worse and worse as they age, healthwise. The only dependent variable I
> considered was length, not happiness or anything else.
>

If you have the right spouse - a true partner - you will have a longer life
on average even assuming you outlive your spouse (in other words, that you
live through your spouse's death).


> Exercise - if you want to walk ten miles a day and climb mountains, then
> give up the idea that you won't wear out sooner - you will.  You will have
> great muscles and heart function with knees and hips that want to stay home.
>

That's not what they were talking about.  They were contrasting
maintenance-level exercise with literally no exercise; your suggestion was
literally no exercise, which - relative to maintenance-level exercise - is
proven to reduce lifespan.
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