It may be that in spring, a young personâ??s fancy turns to thoughts of love. But under some circumstances, falling in love may not be all itâ??s cracked up to be.
Thatâ??s the tongue-in-cheek message heart physiologist Richard Moss likes to deliver to medical students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“The faster your heart beats, the shorter your lifespan,” says Moss, chair of the physiology department and an-award winning teacher at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. “So to live longer, you donâ??t want to be using up heartbeats foolishly.”