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The Blue Zones are a LIE [with Dr. Saul Newman]

Blue Zones got sold as the secret to living past 100. Eat plants. Garden. Sip wine. Dr. Saul Newman looked at the records and the story falls apart. Most of the supercentenarian paperwork is junk. Okinawa does not eat the way the books say. Sardinia is not a vegetarian island. Loma Linda is not a miracle outlier once you put it next to the rest of the country. Pension fraud and missing death certificates do more work than purple sweet potatoes every single time. If the lifestyle pitch were the cause, the food and the smoking and the drinking would have to match the legend. They do not. The useful habits that remain are the boring ones: do not smoke, do not drink yourself to death, move, and see a doctor when you need one. If Blue Zones made you afraid of meat, watch this. Then read the r…