We all want to live longer, healthier lives. That's the promise of the 'blue zones' phenomenon, which identifies areas with unusually high concentrations of centenarians - people living to age 100 and beyond. But how 'blue' are these zones really? And what does the science behind the lessons learned actually tell us? Join perpetual travelers and lifelong scholars Simon and Sarah as they revisit each of the zones profiled in the hit Netflix series Live to 100 and the Blue Zones books to discover the truth - and some actionable advice.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 11 hours 6 minutes
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episode 6: Singapore: Ban guns, save lives.
Singapore is Live to 100's evidence that a Blue Zones approach can work in a modern city-state...
episode 5: Nicoya: Be poor, live more.
Nicoya, Costa Rica is, according to Dan Buettner, home to the 'most extraordinary centenarians on the planet'. One which, for many years, he contends, went unnoticed because researchers couldn't believe the residents of 'such a poor country' could possibly live past 80, let alone 100...
episode 4: Ikaria: Start dancing, beat death.
Ikaria, Greece might not have gotten a big feature in the first edition of the Blue Zones book, but it certainly made a big splash in the second edition - and the Live to 100 Netflix series...
episode 3: California: Get faith, become immortal.
Loma Linda, California is the long-awaited American Blue Zone... or is it? Not only does it turn out to be not so 'blue' (we don't see a single centenarian), but it's not even really a 'zone' - at least in a geographical sense...
episode 2: Sardinia: Drink wine, never die.
Sardinia isn't just a 'Blue Zone', an area with a higher concentration of centenarians than usual. It's better described as the beginning of the Blue Zones phenomenon. And it's also a place where you can buy a home for as little as one euro...
episode 1: Okinawa: Eat potatoes, live forever.
Okinawa is one of the world's 'Blue Zones', areas in which people live unusually long lives... or so we've heard.
In this first episode of Blue Zones: Revisited, we ask just how unusual Okinawa's population really is, consider whether purple sweet potatoes might be the secret to a long life, and take seriously the advice of 99-year-old Fumi Chinen who says 'if anyone ever gives you something and tells you it's healthy, don't eat it...
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