Relevant research that just won an ig nobel prize.
tl;dr: they don’t live longer, they just don’t report their dead relatives and pocket the pensions.
https://www.medicalrepublic.com.au/maybe-its-the-mediterranean-diet-maybe-its-pension-fraud/110766
The blue zone’s fraudulent claims has debunked:
Maintaining activity is associated with lower mortality.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/282655
Differences in all-cause mortality risk associated with animal and plant dietary protein sources consumption
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-30455-9
Social relationships and physiological determinants of longevity across the human life span
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4725506/
Plant-based diet and risk of all-cause mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3389/fnut.2024.1481363/full
Hmm, are youtube videos peer-reviewed?
Check the studies below. There’s a meta analysis included.
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This maybe a bit, but it’s hard to do, you have to hide the bodies of your deceased ones, it’s not so easy.
Low natality plays a more important factor, it’s hard for people to die young, if there aren’t many young people anymore.
you have to hide the bodies of your deceased ones
From whom? There are people living alone who die in their homes and aren’t discovered for months, even years. If you have a caretaker and you pass away (and the caretaker relies on your pension to pay their bills) it is trivial to just… not say anything and keep collecting the pension. In a system suffering administrative decay, wherein the elderly are already obfuscated and ignored, there are few real means of physically validating whether an individual is alive or dead.
Low natality plays a more important factor, it’s hard for people to die young, if there aren’t many young people anymore.
True, but you can weight for natality in your statistics already. The “Blue Zone” hypothesis focuses on the parts of the population already older than 60, typically with an eye towards people who are lifelong residents. That much of the methodology is sound.
It’s obviously because we work the most hours and rest the less.
If you ask me it’s because non mediteranian winters are disgusting.
