Body & mind
28 min
VO2 Max: The Number That Predicts How Long You'll Live
The strongest predictor of death isn't on any medical panel. It's on your wrist.
Cardiorespiratory fitness, measured as VO2 max, is the single strongest predictor of all-cause mortality — outperforming smoking, diabetes, and heart disease. A century of science built the evidence. Medicine still hasn't added it to your checkup.
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Mythio is a library of audio documentaries on the ideas, people, and events that shaped the world. Each episode is researched across the best sources, fact-checked, and told in full. Most run twenty to thirty minutes, long enough to go deep, short enough to finish in one sitting.