Duke Professor Explains the Limitations of the Human Body

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To find just how far the human body can be pushed researchers studied athletes who ran six marathons a week over months and compared their energy intake and expenditure data to those of other athletes, workers, and pregnant women. WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez talks with study author Herman Pontzer of Duke University about the findings.
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What are the Limits of Human Endurance? | WIRED

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@zuko1569 5 жыл бұрын

*reaches for the remote controller across the sofa Darn that's my limit.

@johannpodhaisky9200 5 жыл бұрын

thats what my mama used to say.

@jdj1903 5 жыл бұрын

WIRED: What are the limits of human endurance? Forrest Gump: Hold my box of chocolates

@CashMoneyMoore 5 жыл бұрын

"Shorter events like marathons" FML

@BruceWayne-us3kw 5 жыл бұрын

Chris Moore ultramarathons make marathons feel like 5ks. Or so I would assume. I’ve never run more than 6.38 miles.

@MemeSoup 5 жыл бұрын

Watching the "Fallen Kingdom" music video and not crying at the ending is the limit of human endurance.

@clkgtr12 5 жыл бұрын

To answer that you need to ask David Goggins

@Josef_Favia 5 жыл бұрын

Talk to David Goggins and/or read his book Can't Hurt Me.

@BruceWayne-us3kw 5 жыл бұрын

A marathon a day for 5 months is insane. How do some people do that?

@jewelsgrl 5 жыл бұрын

Had no idea this video would give props to all the women who’ve gone through pregnancy. Pretty cool.

@ciaragough1335 5 жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more🙌🏼 he gives great insight into what women's bodies have to do during pregnancy. This is a great video 🙌🏼 Great content out of Wired and great science out of Duke 😊

@gramps2225 5 жыл бұрын

why does everything has to be about 'women'

@jewelsgrl 5 жыл бұрын

Oh Geesh gramps, really? Lol More like “grumps” ;)

@TheChildOfHades 5 жыл бұрын

@@gramps2225 WhY DoES eVERythIng "hAs" to bE about WomEN

@jfs5873 5 жыл бұрын

@@TheChildOfHades Oh look at me i'm so quricky I tYpE lIkE tHiS

@jaimanparekh4616 5 жыл бұрын

U know he’s talking about long events when the marathon and sprints get put into the same category: short events

@SFgamer 5 жыл бұрын

_"Human beings are strong because we have the ability to change ourselves."_ - Saitama, One Punch Man episode (season 1, episode 3)_

@vongleng4825 4 жыл бұрын

whO iS sAitaMa

@Noluxarch 4 жыл бұрын

@@vongleng4825 saitama is saitama

@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 5 жыл бұрын

There is no limit for my endurance

@ALbaraa2X 5 жыл бұрын

says kim jong-un..

@urMomsTOYBOY 5 жыл бұрын

Except for your missile system.

@braedenthornton4833 5 жыл бұрын

Bomb

@reconelite9159 4 жыл бұрын

Aren’t you supposed to be dead tho

@Jovanvuk1 5 жыл бұрын

100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, and 10km running, every single day! And you'll break your limiter. Oh, and go bald

@bosnianvibe 5 жыл бұрын

Jovan Braunović upravo si

@arturiapendragon5441 5 жыл бұрын

Also watch your diet and no ac during summer

@joshuaduplooy9335 5 жыл бұрын

Don't do this. symptoms include chronic boredness and the inability to grow stronger

@gerardomacias7370 5 жыл бұрын

@@joshuaduplooy9335 more accurately, an innability to fight stronger opponents, because no one is stronger.

@cruiser6492 5 жыл бұрын

One Punch man

@HOHO-iw1vn 5 жыл бұрын

My respect for minecraft steve grows evermore...

@LeBeautiful 5 жыл бұрын

No limits to my endurance. Unless...there’s an ice cream truck nearby.

@christina78c 5 жыл бұрын

Yes. Run after it as it drives away...lol 🏃

@randysanchez5987 5 жыл бұрын

@@christina78c run, is that a peasent thing I should understand I teleport to the ice cream truck

@christina78c 5 жыл бұрын

@@randysanchez5987 even better!!

@lostusaslambus 5 жыл бұрын

As a pregnant lady o find this both flattering and a bit scary.

@cj5857 5 жыл бұрын

Finishing KZfaq rewind 2018, that’s the limit of human endurance.

@rashad123us 5 жыл бұрын

Study David Goggins.

@abrahammekonnen 5 жыл бұрын

Basically respect mothers because every kid = multiple marathons

@andershansen2861 4 жыл бұрын

Will there ever be a 2,5 - 3m highjump and the 9,5 - 10m longjump. Would be great to see a video about these two and an analysis of the possibility of the achieving the results.

@shockerzlee 5 жыл бұрын

The interviewer should interview with David Goggins 🤭

@stealthassasin1day291 5 жыл бұрын

Limits are meant to be broken

@NateandNoahTryLife 5 жыл бұрын

I love Robbie! He’s a great host.

@DoctorComedy365 5 жыл бұрын

DCI you burn about 4000-5000 calories a day for 90 days straight

@hagsag460 5 жыл бұрын

Talk to David Goggins

@dearthofdoohickeys4703 5 жыл бұрын

So if I understand correctly: you can burn up to 5k calories daily (roughly) and maintain that indefinitely since that’s the threshold of your metabolism with a proper diet , but anything more then that will be unsustainable for long periods of time. If I got that right, that’s pretty interesting.

@PepinsSpot 5 жыл бұрын

I'm still super impressed with that jump at the beginning.

@The_Musical_Cartograph 5 жыл бұрын

You guys need to talk to David Goggins and Ross Edgley :p ^^

@davestambaugh7282 4 жыл бұрын

In cycling the hour distance records have been growing at a fairly steady rate for the last fifty years.

@unice5656 5 жыл бұрын

Could you link to the paper?

@maxiumoverdrive1287 5 жыл бұрын

having to watch the last jedi and season 8 of game of thrones pushed me beyond my limits. I never knew such pain was possible

@sarasmr4278 5 жыл бұрын

So glad I skipped out on those. No, thank you. I don't want that in my head.

@gil658 5 жыл бұрын

One word: David Goggins

@NobleTries 5 жыл бұрын

stay hard

@cmetzg03 5 жыл бұрын

Just ask David goggins.

@gabriellloyd 5 жыл бұрын

how does that add up with olympic cross country skiers? They consume up to 8,000 calories a day

@Ghostkid197 5 жыл бұрын

@david goggins

@cheesedoesgaming6088 5 жыл бұрын

Humans are the best long distance animal on the planet. Mostly because we can push our selves harder than our physical ability with our mind.

@james4727 5 жыл бұрын

horses can push themselves till they physically collapse and die, and race dogs push through having internal bleeding and also die after races, and there are some animals better than us at endurance. We are good runners be cause we have big asses and really good sweat glans.

@XxYngwiexX 5 жыл бұрын

Wrong, we are the best for long distances because we CAN sweat... most animals cant , they get overheated ...

@hindsightpov4218 5 жыл бұрын

Whatever the limit is, some Olympian is going to surpass it.

@2406ab 5 жыл бұрын

noone can surpass their limits. but the olympians are the ones who can reach the limit.

@3kleft 5 жыл бұрын

You didn't understand

@MickDavies 5 жыл бұрын

Ross Edgley walks in....

@novafury5253 5 жыл бұрын

Respect to this man🙌🙌🙌

@ericmcgarrh7551 5 жыл бұрын

Recovery time is important

@OGzuzz 5 жыл бұрын

The thumbnail looks like old miniminter😂

@Thank-u-so-much-for-everything 2 жыл бұрын

Human physiological limitations that permit development of obesity include a predilection to overeat palatable diets, inability to directly detect energy eaten or expended, a large capacity for fat storage, and the difficulty of losing body fat

@jordanperez4427 3 жыл бұрын

I feel like humans will evolve not what we see in the movies but in some way evolve

@ZyphorusGaming 4 жыл бұрын

when an accident or something like that happens our brain puts our body in over drive mode so we have more time to react

@hambernat6444 3 жыл бұрын

If hour record on track is 440w, then 20min test in hills can be 600W?

@christina78c 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing, data shows: Metabolism, energy expenditures, high intensity, limit of expenditures, time vs. Intensity, endurance capacity, body burn during the day & to put calories back, Metabolic Rate limit, "what the body can handle over the long run". When you have the GUTS, you can do it!!! ❤😎

@NotHPotter 5 жыл бұрын

Wasn't there a ton of news about how Michael Phelps consumed upwards of 10,000 Calories a day when he was a the peak of his Olympic training? Is there data on athletes on his level that can explain that amount of caloric consumption?

@WillZipf 5 жыл бұрын

I feel like the research of people who take steroids will help us understand the limits the body can be pushed to

@Simte 5 жыл бұрын

*I once reaced my threshold while cycling and hallucinated... Our bodies are truly weird.*

@saulgarcia7083 5 жыл бұрын

“Sure” And Durham is a safe place

@OskarHallgrimsson 5 жыл бұрын

What about extreme strongman competitors, like the world strongest man? Those guys eat 15.000cal pr day. It seems like this study only looks at runners and light weight athletes, I would be interested to find out

@Aveal 5 жыл бұрын

what he is saying is that you are able to intake 2.5 times your Baseline cal.consupmtion (burnt calories while doing nothing a day) this basic cal. consupmtion goes up with more muscle volume because they have to be sustained. So could it be that a strongman competitor needs 6000 cal per day without doing anything ... could be plausible.

@JimmyMac840 5 жыл бұрын

For experts you should get a fashion designer looking at stuff in films and to extend the videos get like specific fashion designers like one would be plastic and another maybe fur or something! You’d get more views

@blackiron2356 5 жыл бұрын

What about competitive eaters consuming >10,000 Calories? Is the implication that their digestive system is just unable to process more than half of that before it becomes waste?

@jodokusmezulat 5 жыл бұрын

What's about Micheal Phelps, he has eaten around 12'000 calories every day for like 10 years?

@Grant... 5 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see this researcher study Brian Shaw

@Izandaia 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder what becomes possible if you feed people calories in a purer form, like straight sugar, or fat, or butter (along with some multivitamins, obviously), or even an IV or somesuch. Basically, I think the next question is "how effectively can we shortcut digestion?"

@BullyInZeHouse2 5 жыл бұрын

The answer is simple children, the upper limit is chuck norris.

@lanapark6099 5 жыл бұрын

women are amazing.

@5timefilms 5 жыл бұрын

your videos would be so much more enjoyable if you didn’t always push to make the 10 minute mark.

@erinp.420 5 жыл бұрын

And pregnant women run marathons.

@davestambaugh7282 4 жыл бұрын

What he says about pregnancy is just one more reason for the fairness in freedom of choice.

@pranavps851 5 жыл бұрын

Me: Gains half a kilogram after staring at a tub of ice cream. Me after watching this video: *laughs*

@robbydaicon 5 жыл бұрын

Funny did he not see Zion run faster , jump higher and weigh more than everyone on his team

@jasonarong9656 4 жыл бұрын

The easiest way to break human limits is putting on the stone mask

@calvinzhao7272 5 жыл бұрын

Humanity is limitless

@simetry6477 5 жыл бұрын

What is the point of lying?

@ClandestineMerkaba 4 жыл бұрын

@@simetry6477 A lie told to the self seldom seems like a lie.

@sherryflavour3791 5 жыл бұрын

Anyone who loves these types of science explained fitness videos go check Jeff Nippard.

@calebcasolaro5454 5 жыл бұрын

Does this mean if you eat more than 4000-5000 calories, you won't gain any more weight than just eating 4000-5000? So free calories??

@StuntDill 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's what hes saying, but it may be different if you're eating extremely high fat content food as its super easy for the body to store that. I find it odd they said it by calories and didnt mention macronutrient profile mattering.

@hasanhussain7122 5 жыл бұрын

Why is Miniminter in the thumb nail?

@srslynotme4359 5 жыл бұрын

*ASK SAITAMA ON WHERE HIS LIMIT ENDS*

@TheDudesterism 5 жыл бұрын

It’s mostly in your mind.

@imicca 5 жыл бұрын

Casey Nesitat entered the chat

@TheT0N1c 5 жыл бұрын

So what about those Body builders that eat 10.000 calories a day?

@Demonstormlord 5 жыл бұрын

They said that max intake was 2,5 x basal metabolic rate. If you are a huge strength athlete, or a Sumo wrestler, I suppose you have a higher basal metabolic rate, which makes 10000 calories relevant.

@eddytjhia1131 5 жыл бұрын

more muscle more metabolic rate, since muscle used more calorie than fat

@georgesanchez8051 5 жыл бұрын

s/o to Duke undergrads

@leestuurmans2837 5 жыл бұрын

fascinating

@idontthinkso2431 5 жыл бұрын

*Steve Rogers joined the chat*

@stupidas9466 5 жыл бұрын

You could compare a pregnant woman's situation to a marathoner sure, but you could also compare it to my fat assed son who weighs 450 lbs and sits on the couch playing video games and stuffing his face with cheetos, chocolate, and big gulps.

@smartbeaw752 5 жыл бұрын

Just starting to run again after a 8 year break ! My endurance as definitely suffer

@artsanchez6483 5 жыл бұрын

1 word. DavidGoggins

@tinosavellano8026 5 жыл бұрын

Mr bean in workout.

@pikete6734 5 жыл бұрын

Dios te ama

@AlyssaNicole96 5 жыл бұрын

To the one who sees this comment... I hope your day is going fantastic and always remember that I love you forever ❤️

@crashandersen602 5 жыл бұрын

Aww, well I love you too, fella! *said in the voice of Timmy's dad*

@Francisco-xx8ei 5 жыл бұрын

2 likes no views hmmmmm

@agnesadkins3203 5 жыл бұрын

Those 2 likes are you and WIRED

@rs250cc 4 жыл бұрын

humans: does or body have a limit ? saiyans: haha you pathetic lower class warriors

@krselj 5 жыл бұрын

What are the limits of greed. Reaching the 10 minute mark on youtube.

@MrPoem-rq7pz 5 жыл бұрын

And this is why we have robots😂

@lgib3121 5 жыл бұрын

Cheeky thumbnail change

@ukaszszapa2440 5 жыл бұрын

I think there are too many oversimplifications in this video.

@eponymousarchon7442 5 жыл бұрын

When you collapse, that's your limit.

@DanielLopez-dy4xj 5 жыл бұрын

he quit

@HOHO-iw1vn 5 жыл бұрын

According to my research on several animes, it's infinite. :3

@raghavsharma1831 5 жыл бұрын

saw that mans eyebrows, came straight to the comments.lol

@gamerpro3901 5 жыл бұрын

Nices video

@RustyB5000 5 жыл бұрын

zero. that's my limit of human endurance. zero.

@benjaminwalters6703 5 жыл бұрын

To be fair pregnancy isn't difficult all nine months... Maybe 3 or 4

@franzknight8763 3 жыл бұрын

when pregnant women join they burned some calories and the baby joke

@alexismaya8743 5 жыл бұрын

I tought that was mr bean lol

@Jackydubs 5 жыл бұрын

DO SWIMMING

@professional7603 4 жыл бұрын

Still,,,, the answer is NOT there!!!! What s a human body s limit in 100 m race... or marathon???? DISLIKE!

@shoopshoop7650 4 жыл бұрын

Watch why its almost impossible to run sub 9 100m

@nelliehuffman7623 5 жыл бұрын

Late

@UTubesucksmyoldcock 5 жыл бұрын

Going to bed at 9pm on a Friday...

@unposterr4935 5 жыл бұрын

My limit is running for 2 minutes🙃