Why Does Everyone on this Island Live to Over 100-Years-Old?

bonjour ebia venue sir 42 today's video is sponsored by babel the number one language learning gap in the world with more than 10 million subscriptions worldwide for thousands of years human beings have fantasized about immortality which is funny because for about the same amount of time people have also been complaining about how life is the philosopher's stone the elixir of life the fountain of youth these myths all have one objective in common to cheat death and live forever this piece of 16th century porn by an artist ironically called lucas chronic the elder clearly shows how the anti-aging process works at the fountain of youth step one arrive at the fountain feeling old sick and decrepid step two take a skinny dip in the healing waters step 3 freak out the other naked girls by pretending to be a zombie step 4 emerge from the water looking youthful and slightly bored step 5 frolic your way over to the changing area and get dressed step 6 go have some lunch with your newly young pals and step 7 go shag in the bushes sounds like fun but this painting isn't just an artist's wet dream brought to life it reflects genuine popular folklore of the time in 1535 the spanish colonialist and historian oviedo wrote about the conquistador juan ponce de leon and his search for the fountain of youth from there a legend of his quest grew and captured the imaginations of the folk back home and your adventures in foreign lands will surely capture the imaginations of folk back home when you learn a new language with babble i love travelling in the vast and beautiful french countryside but i always get frustrated and feel a little bit embarrassed by my total inability to communicate with the locals and people in shops and cafes so i'm using babel to learn to speak french babble is way better than other language learning gaps i've used for a start bubble has no ads which makes it a joy to use unlike other apps that use algorithms to generate lessons babel lessons are created by real people who have vast experience with teaching languages and you know what the results speak for themselves university studies have shown that just 15 hours of babel is equal to a semester of college spanish and that doesn't surprise me because after just a couple of hours using babble i've learned and can recall a long list of french phrases that are actually useful in conversation because babel prepares you for situations you will actually encounter in real life the best thing about babel is that the lessons are actually engaging and fun unlike other learning methods that just repeat phrases at you sending you to sleep babble lessons are interactive which keeps my interest for hours what language have you always wanted to learn well you should start today by heading to my link below to get 65 off a babble subscription for a limited time only it's unclear whether ponce de leon actually was trying to find the fabled source of eternal life but his travels took him to florida where to this day locals of the town of saint augustine swear by the magical properties of their water and florida does happen to have the fifth oldest population of all the u.s states so hey maybe there's something to it i'm sure it's nothing to do with all the rich old people who retire there of course there are now dozens of water sources across florida claimed to be the one true fountain of youth even though recent historical evidence suggests ponce leon probably never even came there in the first place my favorite is the artisan well that produces water high in sulfur and radium 226 isotope radioactive and smells like rotten eggs make mine a double though forts of eternal youth might have swells the minds and cod pieces of europeans in the 1600s the theme dates back much further in the 5th century bc the ancient greek historian herodotus told of a fountain in the land of the microbians in present-day somalia which gave the locals extraordinarily long lives and the alexander romance a semi-fictional account of the life and conquests of alexander the great written in about 338 a.d tells how the conqueror from macedonia also went in search of the water of life on his way to taking over the world another piece of pulp fiction the medieval bestseller the travels of sir john mandeville also mentioned the fountain of youth this time locating it at the foot of a mountain in southern india personally i would have put it halfway up the mountain inside a cave guarded by a really aggressive goat but i guess that's why i was never asked to be dungeon master in a similar vein stories of the elixir of life some kind of magical potion that will grant the drinker immortality or eternal youth can be found in world cultures from east to west the earliest recorded reference dates to before 2000 bc in scripts that would eventually become the epic of gilgamesh now you only have to turn on a television or surf the net to realize we haven't evolved that much in our thinking since then everywhere you look someone seems to have found the magic cure for aging snail syrup peruvian frog juice facials made of blood air yoga cryogenic cooling acid that peels off your skin there's an endless list of things people are willing to try to hold on to their youth and it's big business the longevity economy is estimated to be worth more than 7.6 trillion dollars a year but before you click buy now on that ad for fermented yags vomit you might be interested to know there are areas of the world where people appear to have already solved the riddle of long life in these pockets of civilization called blue zones a higher than usual number of people live much longer than average these are regions where we find unusually high concentrations of centenarians people 100 years old or more and super centenarians people over 110 who wear capes the term blue zone sounds like it should mean something important but its origin is actually a little underwhelming it was coined by two gerontologists yes that really is a name for people who study aging gianna pess and michelle puller they were the first to identify that the population of sardinia's neuro province included the highest number of male centenarians in the world as they studied the cluster of villages with the highest longevity they drew concentric blue circles to highlight the relevant area and called everything inside the blue zone so really we could just as easily today be talking about the purple zone or the pus zone or even the yellow highlighter because my bloody kid stole my pen again zone oh and i should point out that blue zones bear no relation to the blue period which was when picasso seems to have had a paint shortage for about three years at the start of the 1900s pez and pulan were joined in their research by explorer and national geographic fellow dan buettner who helped expand the use of the term to identify longevity hotspots around the world in total there are five blue zones where inhabitants live abnormally long and healthy lives the islands of okinawa in japan sardinia in italy the nakoya peninsula in costa rica i carrier in greece and the community of seventh-day adventists who live in loma linda in california for decades we've been trying to uncover the secrets to living a long and happy life but it's surprisingly difficult to identify shared behaviors or qualities amongst the world's oldest of fogies quite inconveniently the oldest individuals have tended to vary significantly in their approach to living some never touched a cigarette others puffed like chimneys well into their hundreds some never drank alcohol others loved the tipple one swore by sushi another ate two raw eggs a day but in focusing on communities that consistently broke the age bank the blue zones project revealed longevity patterns that were common to regions rather than individuals and it's about more than just life spans blue zone areas also present high healthy life expectancy where people consistently reach their 90s with low rates of chronic disease blues owners don't just live longer they do so with more energy better health and all the other stuff that makes them fun to have at parties in their research brettner and his team identified nine lessons that can be learnt from blue's own lifestyles but these can be summed up into four main habits the first is moderate but regular physical activity this is not the same as sitting at a desk all day then running yourself ragged at the gym for an hour in okinawa japan home to the world's longest living women people traditionally sit on the floor to eat talk work or relax okanawan centenarians sit down on the floor and get up again dozens or hundreds of times per day which exercises their legs back and core in a natural way and in sardinia where we find the world's longest living men the longevity phenomenon is especially concentrated amongst shepherds who spend their days outside walking over steep and rugged terrain in the blue zones region of vicaria greece more than 80 percent of people between ages 65 and 100 are having viagra free sex a little bit of geriatric house your father isn't just a sign of good vitality it also keeps your vitals healthy a study published in the british journal of medicine tracked 1 000 45 to 59 year old welshman for 10 years with researchers finding that men who experience frequent orgasms had half the coronary heart disease mortality risk of their less orgasmic counterparts and a longitudinal study of 1500 americans had similar good news for frisky women too finding that for middle aged married women more regular orgasms lowered mortality risk the second magic ingredient is a strong family and social support system okinawa is sometimes called the island of the immortals because more than 1 000 people in the last 40 years have lived 100 years or more there critical to this longevity is a tradition of wise local groups for support and companionship between residents that can last for decades traditionally children are placed in small groups moais to socialize and grow together as they get older these moais continue to meet work and hang out together some have lasted more than 90 years amongst a loma linda community in the united states volunteering social care and strong face-to-face relationships are fundamental to their way of living societal cohesion is also helped by the fact that everyone is a seventh-day adventist so they're all singing off the same hymn sheet literally the value of close relationships has also been confirmed in numerous other studies a meta-analysis of 148 longitudinal studies involving more than 300 000 participants reveals that older people with strong social relationships are 50 percent more likely to live longer than those who are isolated or lonely if you have regular contact with friends family and neighbors the longevity benefit is similar to quitting smoking and about twice as beneficial as exercising regularly or maintaining a normal weight emma morano would have disagreed though she was an italian super centenarian who before her death at the age of 117 years and 137 days declared that the secrets to her long life was staying single talk about playing hard to get the third blue zone secret is to live with purpose to have a reason to get out of bed in the morning in okinawa they call this your icky guy and in nicoya costa rica they call it plan de veda but having a clear idea of why you're alive is an integral part of all the blue's own cultures so yeah if you're a nihilist you're basically screwed in an 11 year nih funded study looking at the correlation between having a sense of purpose and longevity healthy people between the ages of 65 and 92 who expressed having clear goals or purpose lived longer and lived better than those who did not according to dr makota suzuki of the okinawa research center for longevity science an ichigai or purpose doesn't need to be a grand vision it can be something as simple as a dedication to a hobby or a commitment to caring for someone else let's hope making youtube videos counts because i'm planning on living to 142 at least the last big blue zone tip is to set up your life and environment so that the healthy choice is the easy choice not just an option this applies to all aspects of lifestyle but especially diet and physical exercise in blue zones meals are created according to old recipes and eating is a social event with most diets largely plant-based and high in vegetables whole grains pulses and nuts those that do eat fish or other meat only consume small amounts on average about five times a month alcohol if consumed is also taken in moderation and none of the blue zones have fast food restaurants which eliminates the temptation to make poor food choices sadly for those of you looking for some secret diet or geriatric life hack blue zone studies show there is no one big trick to living a long and healthy life blues owners have such impressive longevity because they combine a bunch of mutually supporting factors that help them to do the right things long enough and avoid doing the wrong things long enough to lower the risk of developing chronic diseases and according to bueno these little pockets of unusually long-lived people might not last much longer because most of the blue zones and potential blue zones identified so far won't exist in 10 years time due to the anticipated influence of what he calls the standard american diet curse you delicious burgers having said all that there could be another explanation for these strange blue zones and one that might conceivably be called a hack a non-peer-reviewed paper published in 2019 drew a lot of attention for suggesting subjects in blue zone studies often had no proof of age or used fake documents the publication also theorized that because three of the five blue zone regions are in areas of relative poverty subjects were motivated to lie about their age and falsify documents for pension benefits and that documents proving age were more likely to be wrong because public services in poor areas are generally badly managed so yeah if you want to live to 200 all you have to do is get really good at forging government documents so you can change the birth date on your passport in response to the paper dan buettner provided detailed explanations of the age verification processes followed in the blue zone field studies and it has to be said such widespread fraud seems extremely unlikely he also rejected the idea that the relative poverty of some blue zone areas affected the accuracy of the research pointing out that public services in those areas were excellent and that it was exactly the lack of first world convenience that helped people stay active and have better diets these kinds of questions about blue zone data are mirrored in another perhaps even bigger age-related controversy gene calment a french woman who died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days is universally regarded as the oldest human to ever have lived she was born before the invention of moving pictures or the telephone she watched the eiffel tower being built she even met vincent van gogh and yet at the time she was born the life expectancy for a french woman was 45. unsurprisingly in later life she became a supercentenarian celebrity and was studied by numerous gerontologists trying to unlock the secrets of long life but a couple of years ago russian mathematician nicola isaac published a paper calling calment a fake to see why he was skeptical about kalman's real age all you have to do is take a quick look at a list of the oldest people ever to have lived because in the game of life well long life gene calment is winning by a mile zak claims the real gene carmen actually died in 1934 and that her daughter yvonne assumed her identity to avoid taxes which would mean she wasn't even a century old when she died in 1997 loser there's no denying calment is a real statistical anomaly but the vast majority of gerontologists agree zack's evidence is weak and that the immense amount of scrutiny and analysis calment was subjected to in her lifetime would have revealed any dodginess in her story but the mathematician's challenge is taken seriously because it impacts our understanding of how long humans can live and therefore how we should live and there is no shortage of conflict in this domain recent years have seen massive advancements in the understanding of the aging process with much of the research backed by billionaires in silicon valley scientist and author of ending ageing aubrey de gray is perhaps most well known for his work on strategies to exclude death from our genes his goal is immortality and many of his peers believe the first person who will live beyond 1000 is already alive today but there's also strong evidence to suggest the maximum lifespan of humans is fixed and subject to non-negotiable natural constraints and some scientists suggest that whilst we may find ways to live slightly longer better and disease-free lives biologically our lifespans are capped if they're correct then the lessons we can learn in the blue zones are even more important either way the future will reveal which side wins we just need to live long enough to see it thanks for watching

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Length: 21min 15sec (1275 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 07 2020