My boyfriend was just telling me about a very interesting theory he heard on a satellite radio show, the Ron and Fez show, who has on a guy who is postively fascinating to listen to and seems to know a little about everything under the sun, a guy they call Mike the Teacher. I’ve listened to the guy before, and he knows about pretty much everything, especially the fascinating details about why he thinks drummers live longer than ordinary people.

I know, you’re probably trying to think of the correlation, as I am, and it’s not quite there, but he says that it’s because drummers are used to using their upper arms, which is not something that the human race is used to doing any more, unless your profession allows for lots of upper body movement, or you happen to be a frequenter of the gym and upper body workouts.

Now, what this has to do with your longevity, I’m not exactly sure, but it may have something to do with the fact that our heart is housed in our upper body and the circulation may not be as good for those of us that don’t use our upper bodies all that much, or it may be something completely unrelated. Mike the teacher says that if you notice, babies do not have any upper body strength, and this renders them virtually helpless, but again I’m not sure what this has to do with longevity.

So I went and looked it up on good ol’ faithful google to see if I could find anything on why this theory about drummers living longer actually works. And what did I find? Absolutely nothing, I typed in “drummers live longer” and nothing, and also tried variations of that phrase, then I tried, drummers and longevity and again found nada. If anyone has any theories or knows of any published studies, we’d love to know, since this totally relates to fitness!

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