Dan Buettner
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Yes.
Well, I think the genesis, it was a, I got a grant from the National Institutes on Aging to, in a sense, reverse engineer longevity.
And the whole project was predicated on the Danish twin study that established that only about 20 to 25% of the variance of how long we live is dictated by genes, 75% is something else.
So I reasoned that if we could find the areas where people live the longest and then tease out the common denominators, it might point in the direction of some lessons the rest of us could learn
And along the way, I met Gianni Pesce in Sardinia, who was identifying clusters of centenarians in the highlands in Oliostra.
And Gianni had been working with this Belgian demographer named Michel Poulin.
And together, they wrote an article called
academic article in 2003 about the Sardinian Blue Zone.
And then I found another one in Okinawa, thanks to the Wilcox brothers, Bradley and Craig Wilcox, who had separately identified and studied a population in Okinawa.
And then not too far from you, in Loma Linda, California, Gary Fraser, who ran the Adventist Health Study,
followed 103,000 Americans and found that the Adventists, the adherent Adventists, conservative Christians, were living about seven years longer than their North American counterparts and wrote the original article in 2005.
It was a cover story for National Geographic.
Since then, I got two more National Geographic grants, identified a blue zone in Ikaria, Greece.
Interesting for you, Dr. Topol, because this population doesn't appear to suffer any Alzheimer's, only 10,000 people, but still, it's an extraordinary population.
Then in Costa Rica, the Nicoya Peninsula, we have a population with the lowest
rate of middle-aged mortality in the world.
What does that mean?
That means that these people have about a two-fold better chance of reaching a healthy age, 95.
We don't promise people 100.
You have to have won the genetic lottery to reach 100.
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