Rejoice: the Blue Zones are BS. The real determining factor in longevity seems to be...drumroll...wealth. Wealthy people have less stress, more time to exercise, and more time to sleep. theconversation.com/the-data-on-... - ThreadSky

gwillow.me • 173 days ago

Rejoice: the Blue Zones are BS. The real determining factor in longevity seems to be...drumroll...wealth. Wealthy people have less stress, more time to exercise, and more time to sleep. https://theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing-is-rotten-from-the-inside-out-ig-nobel-winner-saul-justin-newman-239023

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carlydraws.bsky.social•172 days ago

Who could ever have predicted such an obvious thing?!

xar.ph•173 days ago

I remember seeing this paper when it was a preprint and going "this is going to be a banger of a @lateralcast.com question one day"

matthewdownhour.bsky.social•172 days ago

All else equal though you live longer if you love father from cars and guns

mikedavis.bsky.social•172 days ago

Don’t you fix this typo it’s great

brianbartky.bsky.social•170 days ago

Since I was around in the '70s this story immediately reminded me of the "In Soviet Georgia" Dannon Yogurt commercials that humorously implied that eating yogurt could make you a centenarian. 😀
https://georgianjournal.ge/discover-georgia/30231-in-soviet-georgia-the-story-behind-the-cult-yogurt-ad.html
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brianbartky.bsky.social•170 days ago

Anyway, there had been outrageous claims coming from the Soviet Union in the '70s and earlier of people living up to 165 years old. This Time magazine article dated 12 August 1974 covers those claims and how they were debunked.
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,908667-1,00.html
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codasquid.bsky.social•172 days ago

Gosh, what is the mysterious cause of this benefit that appears to have an unequal distribution??

Is it money?

soccermusings.bsky.social•172 days ago

That article gets to the main reasons why it’s a myth, but I remember sometime this year on here a researcher basically overlaid “High fraud zones and/or places where records were destroyed by war or natural disaster” with “Blue zones” and it was a one-to-one match.

chrisgescribe.bsky.social•172 days ago

Amazing little article, this is great.

jigokushoujo.bsky.social•172 days ago

And this study of 2022 published by Nature Reviews Disease Primers concluded that people in socioeconomically vulnerable situations develop multiple chronic diseases ten years earlier than richer people.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41572-022-00376-4

privacylawchi.bsky.social•172 days ago

No surprise - my grandmother is 104, had a father who lived to 96, attended college in the early 40s, and lived a relatively comfortable life with consistent access to good food and healthcare. It's not a mystery.

idlewild5.bsky.social•172 days ago

"If they don’t acknowledge their errors in my lifetime, I guess I’ll just get someone to pretend I’m still alive until that changes." Love this guy!

jonfife.bsky.social•172 days ago

Well excuse me if I continue following the Okinawan strategy of eating poorly and drinking a lot

goodmourning.bsky.social•173 days ago

Usually access to better healthcare and healthy foods too

stealthisbook.bsky.social•172 days ago

Raising the average takes better healthcare. Extending the extremes takes either exorbitant wealth or scamming the government... but I repeat myself

gordonfernie.bsky.social•172 days ago

What a great last line!

illimij.bsky.social•172 days ago

Shhhh. Don't tell my wife. I just convinced her that the secret to Okinawan longevity is awamori--the traditional Okinawan liquor.

carorolyn.bsky.social•172 days ago

Also, IIRC, poor quality record keeping circa 100 years ago. Hanako-san might be 110, might be 101, there’s no way to be sure because we can’t find a record of her birth ….

kevin.crime.group•172 days ago

My favorite quote in the article: “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.”

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