Ping!.................
My grandmother—who I write about often...
lived a life in excellent health—until she died at age 106.
She smoked one cigarette every night after dinner.
She loved giving the “experts” the middle finger.
Needless to say she outlived all her doctors who told her to stop smoking.
Lol.
Great article, Red. Thanks for posting it.
Before the advent of mechanized agriculture, gasoline-driven tractors, and fast food, what she describes is how Americans lived. Lots of hard work and outdoors all your life, strong community values, no fast food. But Americans didn’t approach anywhere near 100 life span.
I’ll bet you it’s the Yak Milk!
I wonder if there’s anything to the colloidal quartz theory. That’s a new one. At least colloidal quartz doesn’t turn you blue like colloidal silver.
I bought some of the wine for the Blue Zone longevity. I am not a wine drinker but thought I would give it a try. Had to drive to a big liquor store to find one from Sardinia.
Limiting processed foods has to be a good thing. I did one strict diet to determine what was causing me problems..Whole 30 diet.....and it was hard to find stuff that I could eat.
Did lose weight. Did feel a lot better. Inflammation was reduced. Did see the things that made me feel worse. But back to all the old bad stuff. I need to retry it again in a modified way./
thanx red
heads up LJ
This nonsense again? I remember it from 50 years ago when over 100 age elderly were found from Peru to Russian Caucasus to Nepal.
Then it was found many of the men had lied about their age when there was a possibility of a military draft, claiming to be born earlier than they actually were.
Interesting, thanks!
Living to 100 is great if they are active but for someone who is bedridden for the last 5-10 years, not so great.
People who live, grow up, and work their farms all their life stay active as well. Some may even play sports or go to the gym. I personally just ride a bicycle and walk my dogs to try and “not let the old man in”.
The people who work in offices and sit most the day are at the most risk of a shortened lifespan. It’s an easy rut to fall into.
all these articles on small populations that live a long life have one thing in common: They ignore that a lot of children die of malnutrition/infectious disease/Tuberculosis... not to mention deaths from childbirth, war, and accidents.
The low protein, low fat diet leads to a long life, but only if you survive these other threats to life.
The Blue Zones are an amazing study, peoples that live to 100s regularly. Healthy diet, keep moving (mostly up and down hills and always walking) and community support are main factors.