Dan Buettner

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Ground Truths · A Look Into the Blue Zones · 18 Jan 2026 podcast

Demographers, these are scientists who actually do this work, who've seen the birth records, who've seen the death records.

Sal quite rightly points out that there is a prefixer in Japan where there was a couple hundred

false birth certificates.

And he tries to make the false equivalency that if it happened someplace else in Japan, it had to happen in Okinawa.

But if you look at that very article,

It lists the number of fraudulent birth certificates in Okinawa as zero.

So he selectively picks a data point to make this argument.

He correctly points out that in Sardinia, there's high climb rate and there's a lot of poverty there.

but he doesn't bother to mention that there's 1.6 million people in Sardinia and the Blue Zone consists of six villages in only one area.

And we make no claims on poverty or education.

We just simply looked at birth records going back to 1860 and then followed everybody who made it to 90 or older

and counted them up and compared them to national standards.

And it's not just me.

Actually, I just report on what real demographers in peer-reviewed journals have done.

And I think you're going to see another...

spate of very high-profile journals writing articles about blue zones, confirming all the ages have been verified.

Every single birth, the process is we...

We find a birth that has lived over age 90.

They're in a civil record.

Then we check the birth records and then the death records and make sure those dates line up.

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