Well, find some 70 year olds near you that never exercised, and find some runners / triathletes. Choose which 70 year old you would rather be, and use that to chart your own path.
This study is completely disconnected from biological reality. Exercise is the only general-purpose life-extending intervention we know of with certainty. See for yourself: <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_exercise" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_exercise</a>
Science has finally validated my life choices to sit inside a air conditioned room, lights on, windows covered, minimal physical activity, doing things that don't require brain power.
This [1] is a study which attempts to quantify the diminishing returns of exercise. Compared to no exercise, people who do 1-2 times the recommended 75 minutes of weekly intense exercise or 150 minutes of moderate exercise have a 31% lower chance of death across a median 14 year follow up period. Those who complete 2-3x the recommended amount had 37% lower and 3-5x a 39% lower chance. There was no sign of negative effects of 5-10x the recommended amount, however no additional benefit either.<p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25844730" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25844730</a>
> <i>The entropy generated predicts a life span of 73.78 and 81.61 years for the average U.S. male and female individuals respectively, which are values that closely match the average lifespan from statistics (74.63 and 80.36 years).</i><p>Can...this be changed?
I work out with a serious body builder and a serious power lifter. Both of them are engaged in minimizing the amount of exercise they do to get the greatest benefit.
I'm perfectly willing to believe it. From an Occam's razor perspective, exercise most directly and clearly <i>is</i> wear and tear. Stories about how the body overcome and benefits from that are more complicated, hence more likely wrong.
There is so much wrong with this article.<p>I don't think anybody has a unit for entropy.<p>They are falling a fallacy.<p>Just because you entered the world, you have increased entropy. Every time you eat, you increase entropy.<p>I can't believe this got published.