Dan Buettner
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 18 Jan
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As better data comes on board, we may see some changes, but I'll stand by my research for when I was doing it in 2003 and 2004.
Okay.
Yes.
So as soon as the American diet arrives, as soon as the automobile and social media, their longevity goes out the back door.
You mentioned Costa Rica.
When I first arrived in 2006, there were no Burger Kings or McDonald's or KFCs, limited salty snacks and that sort of thing.
Now, a tsunami of that junk food has hit.
Sure enough, the chronic disease load is starting to mirror what we have in the United States because as soon as they start eating like American, they start blowing up like an American.
And the blue zone in Costa Rica has shrunk by a factor of five.
And the corrosive impacts of modernization is hitting all blue zones, some worse than others.
And it appears what's happening is there's kind of a sweet spot.
People born between about 1890 and 1940 are the ones who are making it to 100 at the highest proportion.
Why is that?
Because people born between 1890...
did not have the benefit of vaccinations and antibiotics.
And their lives were often foreshortened by infectious diseases.
You know, you step on a nail or an abscess tooth and you get an infection, you're dead before penicillin or cholera or malaria.
They're all tuberculosis.
And it goes on and on.
And the medical advancements that came along in the 30s and 40s and 50s are what enabled life expectancy and people to survive these infectious disease.
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