Very interesting... and yet the blue zones are quickly disappearing.. do people not learn?

Very informative documentary! Going to incorporate some of these ideas into my life.

The “Blue Zones” have long been considered the holy grail of longevity — geographic areas where people appear healthier and live significantly longer lives. New research suggests that longer lifespans found in Blue Zones are not due to healthy behaviors but to birth certificate fraud and poor census management. The discovery was made by Saul Justin Newman, an Ig Nobel Prize winner and senior research fellow at the University College London Centre for Longitudinal Studies. Newman tracked down 80 percent of every person on record aged 110+. Instead of learning their healthy living secrets, he found something much more shocking. These “longevity hot spots” were created by poor record-keeping. Almost none have a birth certificate. In the US there are over 500 people aged 110+; seven have a birth certificate. Even worse, about 10% have a death certificate. There was a Japanese government review in 2010, which found that 82% of the people aged over 100 in Japan turned out to be dead. The secret to living to 110 was, don’t register your death. And it’s not just in Japan. In Greece, another Blue Zone, Newman found that 72 percent of centenarians were dead, missing, or part of pension fraud.

Gotta get my calorie count below 2k