How Long to Read Diving Seals and Meditating Yogis

How Long Does it Take to Read Diving Seals and Meditating Yogis?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read Diving Seals and Meditating Yogis by Robert Elsner

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Survival in extreme conditions is not about running for cover, or coming up for air, but rather in many instances working within the confines of the environment and instead suppressing bodily function. Yogis do it, seals do it, even sleeping bears do itthat is, alter their physiology in order to survive. This physiology of survival is explored here, including its evolution and varied manifestations across the animal kingdom. In the course of exploration over the years, researchers in comparative physiology have discovered fascinating and unanticipated commonalities. One might not expect to find a common theme relating the physiological reactions of seals, and yogis, and the comparisons extend even further afield, to hibernating animals, infants during birth, near-drowning victims, and clams at low tide. The common threads linking this unlikely mix of animals and situations are shared reactions to unfavorable environments, reactions that include lowering energetic requirements and retreating into states of depressed metabolism. Scrutiny of these diverse examples reveals some suggestive insights into the biology of survival and well-being. Animals in these withdrawn states are less dependent upon their customary levels of oxygen consumption, temporarily lessening their need for that life-sustaining resource. Instead they rely upon temporary strategic retreats of reduced metabolism, later resuming normal activity when conditions become more favorable. These states, and also the regulatory functions, including the neural and endocrine, that integrate to maintain equilibrium in altered environments or in temporarily challenging situations are examined. Breath-hold diving and its inevitable progressive asphyxia, often with cold exposure and swimming exercise that may accompany underwater submergence, comprises an assault on the ordinary homeostatic condition of the animal. These encounters, for which seals and other marine mammals are well adapted (but humans less so) alter resting equilibrium, and entail remarkable physiological orchestration."

How long is Diving Seals and Meditating Yogis?

Diving Seals and Meditating Yogis by Robert Elsner is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.

This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Diving Seals and Meditating Yogis Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read Diving Seals and Meditating Yogis aloud.

What Reading Level is Diving Seals and Meditating Yogis?

Diving Seals and Meditating Yogis is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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