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Now your resting pulse rate can give you some idea on how long you actually have to live.

Now there are other better indicators that will predict mortality like the coronary artery

calcification test. If you haven't seen that video, I put a link down below. But your resting pulse

rate can give you some good information to predict your mortality to a certain degree.

And I'm not just talking about cardiovascular deaths. I'm talking about deaths from all causes.

So based on a meta-analysis, which I'll put the data down below,

mortality increased by 9% for every 10 beats per minute of resting heart rate. Now what does

that actually mean? It means that if your pulse rate is low, let's say it's 45 beats per minute,

you have a low risk of dying. And if your pulse rate is higher, let's say it's 90 beats per

minute, you have a significantly higher risk of dying from something. So the goal is to monitor

your resting pulse rate just to kind of give you an idea where you're at, and also to do things

to bring it down. Well-trained athletes have very little pulse rates. I'm talking like

40, 45, 50. That's all really, really low. And of course people with cardiovascular disease,

coronary artery disease, arrhythmias, high blood pressure, typically have a higher resting

pulse rate, which puts them more at risk. Now I do want to make a note here. If you are on a

medication that is bringing your pulse right down, that's not what you want to go by. You want to

go by a resting heart rate without any help doing any manipulation of your heart rate. That'll give

you the true number. Another study I want to make note found that post-menopause women with a

pulse rate of 76 beats per minute, if you compare that to women with lower pulse rate,

had a 26% increase risk of heart attacks. So anyway, it's one indicator, it's not the whole

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