Originally Posted by
Seattle Forrest
What would it even mean to say your heart was "capable of" X beats if you had died
before it got to that number?
That you were ridden hard & put away wet.
The point I was making is not that a human does actually only get X heartbeats but that if the scientific community were to make such a statement, implicit in that statement would be the assumption that to achieve that number would require optimal care. It seems ridiculous to assume that one would achieve any measure of a long, healthy life incorporating cocaine and heroin and eating & sleeping poorly.