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Comment by strbean | original | Healthy but sedentary people show early decline in cellular energy production
[−]strbean · 2026-07-02 Thu 01:16 UTC · link
> Once you're around 80 it'll wake up anyone

Source? I haven't been able to find info on this. I get resuls on nocturnal tachycardia and such. Nothing on elevating a sleeping person's heart rate and observing the result, though.

[−]Schiendelman · 2026-07-02 Thu 02:27 UTC · link
To be clear, if you implanted a lead, you might not wake them up. It's the mechanism by which you would raise their heartrate that would wake them - the same things that elevate heartrate from external stimulation would also cause cortical arousal.