This content was created by Lewis Howes. This content was uploaded by Lewis Howes. This is a YouTube video titled "People with THIS live LONGER!" discussing the correlation between slower heart rates and longer lifespans at a population level, recorded on August 20, 2025.
What? What we know from these huge population studies is that populations with a slower heart rate tend to live longer than populations with a faster heart rate. Now, before all your listeners run and check their pulse. There you go. My pulse is 80. It doesn't mean that they're going to have a short lifespan. Statistics from a population cannot be reduced to a single individual. But it's still very interesting that at a population level, slower heart rates, meaning more vagus nerve activity relative to fight or flight, tend to live longer than those with faster heart rates. Why is that? Well, no one knows. One possibility it's because if you have a slower heart rate, you tend to have a healthier vagus nerve function that may also be slowing inflammation.
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