Dan Buettner , a writer , adventurer , and survival cyclist , gave a TED talk of the town in September 2009 entitle : How to live to be 100 + . In the talk , he mention theDanish Twin Study , hint that much of our lifespan ( within sealed biological limits ) is dictated by our life style , not our genes . So what is the optimal life-style ? Which diet is skilful ? What kind of exercise is best ? How do spiritualty and social life-time touch on lifespan ? Buettner decide to initiate his own survey , in which he studied the world ’s " dreary Zones"—regions of the world where people live to very old years , and remain comparatively intelligent . The cool part here is that Buettner , at least as far as I can order , is not a screwball . He is n’t call to stop age viapillsor any other magical cure . What he ’s count at is how to hold out just a bit longer – specifically , about 12 twelvemonth in the US .
So can you live to 100 and beyond ? The short answer is : plausibly not . An individual must have the right-hand genetics AND the correct lifestyle to accomplish this . But given that we ca n’t presently change our gene , what lifestyle would give us the longest , sound lives ? That ’s what Buettner ’s public lecture is about .
discourse : procreative winner , myth about get on ( including " treatment that end age " ) , how cell return interact with aging , distinctive capacity of the human body ( 90 + long time ) , life anticipation in the US ( ~78 years ) , the Blue Zone in Sardinia ( with 10x more centenarians than in the US ) , the Blue Zone in Okinawa ( with the longest disability - innocent lifespan in the populace ) and calorie restriction , the Blue Zone in Loma Linda California ( Seventh - Day Adventists ) , a 97 - year - onetime open - heart surgeon , the nine " common denominator " among all the Blue Zones .
If you may make time for this twenty - minute talk , I reckon you ’ll be storm by the last five minutes , in which Buettner partake in the nine specific dieting and life-style factors divulge by the Blue Zones .
What Do You Think?
Do you have relatives who have lived to be 90 , 100 , or farsighted ? Were those " good years " or years of woe ? What are you doing in your life to extend your life-time – if anything ?
