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Dan Buettner and The Blue Zones

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The Origins of the Blue Zones

The idea behind Blue Zones was to reverse engineer longevity so 20 percent of how long we live as our genes the other 80 percent is something else. The longest disability free life expectancy in the world or people were living the longest without disease were found mostly among women on this cluster violence in Southeast Asia and I said aha that's a good mystery, he says. "I knew from doing the Okinawa there's this this little corner of science called demography" they say.

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