Blue Zones founder Dan Buettne, in an exploratory study project, discovered five regions of the world where other people are living longer and healthier.
Wanting to find out how other centenarians (a hundred years old or older and healthy) live, Dan interviewed the world’s oldest humans.
First, Sardinia in Italy has established itself as the region with the highest concentration of centenarian men. The island in the Mediterranean Sea offers amazing beaches, breathtaking trails, and cultural traditions.
One of those traditions is that on January 17 the streets of Mamoiada come to life at the Festa di Sant’Antonio Abate.
Men dressed in furry sheepskins and hand-carved black masks parade through the city with bronze bells ringing rhythmically on their backs.
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However, the match alone cannot explain why Italian men enjoy a long and beautiful life. During his studies in the Blue Zones, Dan was introduced to 4 other regions where it was general to live a full, long, and healthy life.
While Ikaria, Greece, has hot springs and Okinawa, Japan, is known for its tropical climate, what do those regions have in common?
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Dan, along with other researchers, has identified nine key denominators that have a positive effect on longevity. These include a sense of purpose, a sense of belonging, moving naturally, and connecting with people you enjoy.
Other points included locating your “right tribe”, a plant-rich diet, wine at five p. m. , the 80% rule of dining when you are 80% full, and doing so. to take merit of rest times.
Living in environments where movement is mandatory on a basis contributes to a life well lived.
Discovering why you wake up in the morning (your sense of purpose) can increase your life expectancy by seven years.
And it’s important to take time out of the day to relax tension, because too much tension is related to the disease.
“Beans, along with lima beans, black beans, soybeans and lentils, are the cornerstone of most centenarians’ diets,” Dan emphasized.
As for locating their tribe, Okinawans have created “moais,” teams of five friends committed to each other for life.
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