Long Suspected of Blue Zones

[mccoy]

@Joseph_Lavelle

Is this also the only group that identifies as a particular religion? Do all the valid blue zone peoples have a strong spirituality? A purpose beyond getting enough food, a bigger house, winning races and /or arguments, acquiring more assets?

I can speak about the Sardinian Blue zone. It is a small community, people cling together in hard times, on the other side they can quarrel quite a lot. But family in these areas has always been an almost holy institution. I think they follow the Catholic religion, but not with a strong spirituality.

My point is that there are many communities with similar conditions. It is all speculation. We’ll never have hard evidence, a proof, that the causes of longevity in the blue zones are just those outlined by Buettner. I wish it was like that. Diet, exercise, sleep,stress management, in a more or less successful way we are implementing these interventions. I bet that most of us have some higher purpose in life. If the Blue zones narrative is true, we are bound to live significantly longer than the statistical expectancy and this without counting the administration of Rapamycin and similar drugs.

[Phillipe]

Many studies on the Adventists in Loma Linda also. Typically, they don’t smoke, vegetarian for the most part, religious, health is kind of a foundation for them, hence the noted medical, dental and allied health professions schools there. So, the profile ticks all the boxes for a Blue Zone, which they are.