Extreme endurance exercise, such as multiple 20-mile runs per week, is not a longevity strategy and can be considered a form of self-harm. — Whalespan
Extreme endurance exercise, such as multiple 20-mile runs per week, is not a longevity strategy and can be considered a form of self-harm.
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We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“If you are beating your body senseless over time, you're experiencing the stress fractures, you're doing all these things, and you're doing it because you think it's moral, you think it's good, or because you get a high from the endorphins from it, it's not a longevity strategy at all. It's not good for you, and I will go so far as to say you could call it a form of self-harm.”
“if you are beating your body senseless over time you're experiencing the stress fractures you're doing all these things and you're doing it because you think it's moral you think it's good or because you get a high from the endorphins from it it's not a longevity strategy at all it's not good for you and I will go so far as to say you could call it a form of self-harm”