Dan Buettner
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 18 Jan
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But then what happens in about...
beginning mostly at the end of the 60s, 70s, is all the processed foods, the glut of grains and the ensuing glut of crappy meat, feedlot meat.
You see since about 1980,
the rate of obesity about triples compared to what it was today.
And, uh, the number of middle-aged Americans suffering from, or all over the world suffering from chronic disease about doubles.
Well, that's happened in the blue zones too.
So people born after 1940, they're subject, they're subjected more heavily to this, this sort of American, the, these, the scourges of modernization, um, uh,
That said, I can tell you, number one, the cluster of characteristics that got this cohort.
Remember, these people are with an average set of genes, the cohort born between 1890 and 1940.
That cluster of characteristics, we identified that and that would work just as well today as it worked back then.
And number two, Luzon's, most of them are still the longest lived areas in the world.
And it became maybe the tall, the tall poppy gets chopped down.
Yeah, Jean-Marie Calmet.
Right, right.
So first of all, there's only one critic, and he's the guy you mentioned who is a plant scientist, no training in demography, and a real zeal for self-promotion and attention.
As far as we can tell, the only thing he's done of substance was to line up a number of misrepresentations
to make us look bad.
He's never been to a blue zone.
And you can talk to any one of a dozen demographers.
Some have worked in the blue zone.
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