The quest to live forever has taken us from diet fads to geographic fantasies like Blue Zones. But none of these ideas are based in reality, according to Washington Post health columnist Anahad O'Connor and Saul Justin Newman, a researcher on aging. This episode was produced by Zachary Mack and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Miranda Kennedy, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members "Blue Zones" founder Dan Buettner, who produced "Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones" Netflix show, in an appearance. Photo credit: Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Today on the show, we ask, can a diet help us live much, much longer? We do know that someone will always be trying. There's venture capitalist Brian Johnson and his vegetables for breakfast.
This is freshly made with broccoli, cauliflower, black lentils, garlic, ginger, hemp seeds, and one tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil.
There's David Murdoch, the 101-year-old chairman of Dole Foods and his somewhat bizarre fruit-forward diet.
I eat the skins of bananas, the skins of oranges, the skins of pineapple.
There's the Blue Zones diet, which is taken from places in the world where people are said to routinely live to 100.
The five pillars of every longevity diet in the world are whole grains, greens, tubers like sweet potatoes, nuts, and beans.
And then there's the possibility that this is a lot of nonsense. Coming up on Today Explained.
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