Breathe Life into Your Lungs
Science has begun measuring what the ancient Tibetans understood intuitively: lung capacity corresponds to healthy aging. In the 1980s, researchers with the Framingham Study—a seventy-year longitudinal research program focused on heart disease—attempted to find out if lung size really did correlate to longevity. The researchers gathered two decades of data from 5,200 subjects, crunched the numbers, and discovered that one of the greatest indicators of lifespan [...]