‘breathing slowly burns our insides, setting us gently on fire’ – is this true? is this why we can’t live forever?

Question: 'breathing slowly burns our insides, setting us gently on fire' - is this true? is this why we can't live forever? #exsistencialcrisis
- Keywords:
  breathing,
  fire,
  live
Asked by Rachel_rofl to Andy on 22 Jun 2015.
- Andrew Scott answered on 22 Jun 2015:
  
  I kind of see what you mean, but I haven’t heard anything quite like this. I have heard theories that you only have a certain number of heartbeats before you die. I don’t think it’s quite right. There are many reasons that we can’t live forever and I don’t fully understand all of them. Sometimes our cells don’t copy properly when they reproduce and some things like coronary artery disease kind of happen gradually as the arteries get clogged up, mainly with fat.

Question: 'breathing slowly burns our insides, setting us gently on fire' - is this true? is this why we can't live forever? #exsistencialcrisis