United Kingdom, June 15 -- Josh Duhamel's heart rate "drops about 25%" when he's at his rural retreat.

The 53-year-old actor - who has Axl, 12, with ex-wife Fergie and Shepherd, two, and Rocca, six weeks, with wife Audra Mari - has a house in Los Angeles but largely lives in Fargo, North Dakota , with his family, though he feels truly relaxed and at home at his cabin in the woods of Minnesota.

Speaking to Dana Carvey and David Spade on their Fly on the Wall podcast, he said: "What I think I love the most about it is I just get out there and my heart rate drops about 25%.

"My priorities change too. I feel like I have purpose.

"I'm always working on something where I don't even mow my own lawn here. It's just absolute freedom out there....