Blue Zones

The places where humans live the longest are explained by traditional lifestyles, widespread incest or systematic fraud, there is no fourth option.

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Links!
• The global pattern of centenarians highlights deep problems in demography (medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.06.2431317…)
• Late-life mortality is underestimated because of data errors (journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/file?id=…)
• Supercentenarian and remarkable age records exhibit patterns indicative of clerical errors and pension fraud (biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v3)
• Do People in ‘Blue Zones’ Actually Live Longer? (nytimes.com/2024/10/24/well/live/blue-zones-lo…)
• They really are that old: a validation study of centenarian prevalence in Okinawa (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18426957)
• The Real Facts Supporting Jeanne Calment as the Oldest Ever Human (academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/74/…)
• A Population Where Men Live As Long As Women: Villagrande Strisaili, Sardinia (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3205712)
• Typologies of Extreme Longevity Myths (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2010/423087)
• Sardinian dietary analysis for longevity: a review of the literature (link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s42779-0…)
• Identification of a geographic area characterized by extreme longevity in the Sardinia island (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34265327)
• Specific features of the oldest old from the Longevity Blue Zones in Ikaria and Sardinia (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34265327)
• Making the Blue Zones: Neoliberalism and nudges in public health promotion (d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/85824797/j.socsc…)
• Human longevity: Genetics or Lifestyle? (immunityageing.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1…)
• Familial transmission of human longevity (jstor.org/stable/43050808)
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