1. move naturally - no intense exercise 2. good outlook - have a purpose 3. downshift - chill out 4. drink red wine 5. eat plants, beans and nuts a lot 6. stay a bit hungry 7. family 8. community 9. spirituality

He's on the right track. The true secret to long life includes activity as he said, but not just any activity, activity which causes us to look forward to doing it again. That is one of the reasons after retirement ppl grow old so rapidly. The second is belief. Those who believe in their culture, lifestyle etc will live longer than those who have no belief system about life. The 3rd and well known secret is reduced stress. Stress is not restricted to pressure from work. It includes tangible things like posture or eating habits or even intangible things like the types of thoughts haboured. The body, through the mind, can regenerate every cell and even compensate for telomere length shortening.

This talk is one of the many reasons I love watching and learning from TED talks.

Is it just me or does he sound like steve carrel.

Such a great and realistic talk on living a healthy life.

Brilliant! I have just surrounded myself with more adventure because of the reason I get up each day!

Great speech, had my attention all the way through. Classic TED!

good and informative. Having a long life with good health is the greatest blessing.

After working at a Cancer Center for 11 yrs I'd have to say from what I've seen, there is no rhyme or reason. From my experience biology plays more of a role than lifestyle. My grandmother lived to 100 and pretty much lived off of honeybuns and mountain dew for 40 yrs- never got any exercise. A friend of mine eats fast food a lot and his blood numbers are much better than mine- and I eat very healthy.

Dan really knows his stuff and his team with the National Geographic Society came up with a no nonsense way of living based on real people in real places one study at a time. Great work that you did Dan Buettner. Holistic Chef Barry

Simple yet amazing.

completely agree with everything especially towards the end.

Highly enlightening..Thanks!

Wow, this was an awesome presentation. It's a very refreshing look at personal health and well-being, especially compared to all the diet/exercise hype you hear on television.

I agree with Mr. Buettner, if you do what you're told by your doctors and you keep yourself healthy, you'll live past 100 years. What he said in the video is to surround yourself with trustworthy, good habit people, that alone will benefit yourself as a person and your lifespan. I believe the key to living longer is having a strong relationships with the people you love most. Also, if you have healthy parents, it's more than likely you'll grow up eating healthy and making good diet decisions. Another way to boost your lifespan is to stay working and become a hard worker. Therefore, you're staying busy and getting your exercise in simple daily activities. Another way is to become married. It's proven men live up to 10 years more than non-married men and women live up to 4 years more than non-married women. I couldn't agree more with this TED talk and it's such a shame how low our societies lifespan is now because of all the unethical and bad decisions we're choosing for our bodies.

Great talk!

Thank you fine sir.

Great insight.

I'm with you on that.

What a great and informative Ted talk:)!

I love your videos! KZfaq is more than entertaining!

A great speaker.

very good. enjoyed it much! great speaker!

Hey Spudskie! Another guest on Johnny Carson over the years was an elderly man, in his 90's, who had eaten a hotdog a day his entire life. I loved Johnny's show. No one like him since.

Awesome info!

Here in the U.S. it sounds like we're really due for some self reflection. This was a great talk!

this is awesome

he has looked at 9 regions in the world where people live the longest and searched for common denominators. he has found that they have four things in common that make them live longer: 1. moving naturally (ie walking instead of driving,doing stuff by hand instead of buying machines) 2. relaxing regulatly (physically AND mentally) (ie meditation, praying) 3. eating healthy (green plants,small portions,don't overeat) 4. community (many close friends,life long friendships)

I was thinking less about physical activity but more about not being able to control your bladder. I know full well you can have vigor at that age but all the other little things like aches/pains and shitting your pants is still with you I'd imagine.

*GOOD.*.

Great Video!

yes

very nice talk...there is a lot more to say, but as a sneak peak it is very nice ;)

flawless victory

Eat right and stay active equals a happier healthier life......This was the most common theme I got out of the talk. All the subjects or communities ate "plant based diets", and did daily "physical activity".

Good Talk!!:D

family. a purpose filled life. father, mother,children,grandparents.this is how you live long. somewhere along the way we've lost that bond

As he said in the video, he wasn't saying that the centenarians ate a plant-based diet. Instead, he was describing the diet of everyone in the island or country, which included the many poor people in these regions, who couldn't afford much meat. In contrast, in the Barbagia region of Sardinia, where the centenarians are, they do eat a lot of meat, suckling pig being a particular favorite. In fact, in 2011, Sardinians called for formal recognition of their excellent diet, insisting that “the secret to a long life can be found in their traditional diet of lamb, roast piglet, milk and cheese", and not in eating 90% plants. Interestingly, this is similar to Costa Ricans, as well as the Danish (the happiest people on the planet), where they eat a lot of pork as well. This makes sense, because pork is one of the best sources of B vitamins, zinc and iron, which give us an upbeat mood. Also, unlike plant foods, pork and pork fat supplies arachidonic acid and DHA, the essential fats that are needed to stop inflammation, for energy, digestion, heart and bone health, and also for acetylcholine, which is needed for the focused, calm and content alpha state-our happy place!

Good talk, definitely unexpected

Why just 100? I'm working on my next book" Searching for a key to eternal life" My own 5 years experience has shown that the best way to follow is is raw food diet.

have to write a paper on this for english!

@pasmaan I thought the exact same thing when this video started in a new tab. "Steve Carell's at TED Talks?"

Watching the video there are some small things we can do. Seems to me most important is purpose, social constructs, diet. I like it. Not as hard. In order to have a long quality life we must study what is important then apply. "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." What if that is true? Easy to do, easy not to do.

pretty interesting

i lol'd at drinking jim and rolling a joint. Very interesting video.

Just something that is worth mentioning about alcoholic drinks, which he says that Blue Zone people drink in moderation. Studies have shown that people who drink alcohol in moderation have better health than people who drink too much alcohol or no alcohol at all, BUT more recent studies have shown that this is an issue of how correlation doesn't imply causation, because people who don't drink alcohol often stopped drinking because of health problems, they didn't get their health problems from not drinking alcohol. So, it's not bad to not drink alcohol at all, the message here is that if you're healthy enough to drink alcohol, and you choose to drink alcohol, you should only drink in moderation.

He said the Seventh Day Adventists never excersize but right before that he showed an old lady riding an excersize bike and lighting weights.

good

It would be interesting to know the immigration and emigration statistics for Sardinia and Okinawa Island. The Seventh Day Adventists have a very high turn-over rate (for every 100 people who join, 43 leave) and so the trend of them living longer on average could be more to do with the fact that certain types of people stay and certain types leave. So genetics might also play in it but also the possibility that the cultures attract more older people anyway and so inevitably they will have a higher concentration of people over 100. Lifestyle must be a big part of it too

The fact that you never did, shocks, not that you don't do it. Why it's shocking, well not many people are able to keep them self from trying such interesting things, especially during the teen part of growing up. Some might think its weird, cause what reasons can you have to not try not even once? No harm in trying once other than that you might like it. Can't think of any more reasons, people like you are just rare, that's all.

@ThroneofEden While I agree with this, I see this video as less about "how you can live to 100," but as "here are the societies were people live to 100." It's an anthropological talk and reveals differences in culture.

@summerguy03 Cannot unhear it. At 14:14 sounds exactly like it

The hand-made life is not about "burning calories." It's about moving my body, flow, flow of blood, of spirit, all one. At seventy-eight, my hip and ankle traumatized in a car accident in my twenties, are acting up. Although unsightly, I love my aching hip and swollen, cramped ankle. We are working together to keep me on my legs and ambulant. Soon I will rejoin my partner and his family, Latinos who stay together in sickness and in health but always in a good laugh and delicious home-cooked beans on the stove. Did Dan talk about the heart-connection of family? blood or otherwise?

It's simple as that. But in reality very few people in the world are lucky enough to be able to have that kind of life style.

just be happy!! [no tv}

@EgaoNoGenki thats strange I was wondering the exact thing. I was just debating with someone talkin about wine and is it good or bad

Sin of omission what is and is not eaten: These diets are high in saturated fats (butter, duck fat, pig fat), moderate in proteins and vegetables and very low in refined sugar and carbs (bread, candy, sodas, etc.)

thank you

Watched this video during a College Happiness Health Class. Being raised as a Seventh-Day Adventist, I had to point out this. Adventists are not conservative Methodists.

I'd never heard of the Blue Zones before tonight

Cool Stuff

@pasmaan He also sounds Canadian.

Hm, I don't think it's religion itself, but the social life that most religions provide (with the exception of some). It sounds mostly to me that Buettner is basically saying: be social, be happy, exercise whenever you can outside civilization, and eat only what you need. That sounds like a plan to follow :) No stupid weight-loss programs or special diets, and not only do you live more years, you're living happily in those years!

@CarbonSuit, ouch... that's a bit of a blow. Just read the critical paper cited by Wikipedia as source [2] on DeGrey's page. Thanks for pointing it out.

who is a boy in 07.09 ??? anyone answer me !

@kennethj1956 I wonder if we can eat fish, avocados, walnuts and olive oil instead of the pork itself?

Honestly, this video is a good message given in a way that rubs me the wrong way. While the Blue Zones are interesting and it's important to know how the human body optimally works today, there's a lot of potential in medical research coming down the pipe. I guess the part that bothered me the most was "There is no way to slow aging." And then he describes the way cells lose information during replication? GEEE, SOUNDS SOMETHING WE COULD FIX TO SLOW AGING. 100 problems just means 100 solutions.

You should listen to Dr Joel Wallach and get updated.

nice vid

old, 80-year-old asian ppl are amazing at Badminton. They beat be and my buddies during high school years, when we'd play at the leisure center. We should learn some lessons off of our Chinese bros.

@middlekk Well different people have different meanings of "fun".

It doesnt mention Ikaria island in Greece!

Where can I buy that wine?

@gigi4123 Dunno why this sort of approach can't work with the Aubrey deGray approach.

@Bill Hicks run marathons, an indian guy living in the UK does he is 99 so nearly 100.

At about 6:20 - "It's called Kananow?"

interresting video, though i expected something about gene therapy, i was dissapointed not to see it being more about the actual diets. I find things like religion or having lots of friends being significant for becoming older.

@eyhexs Thanks ;)

he was saying, that the guys there don't drink or smoke, but still have fun. He f.e. said, that you should drink wine/beer wisely. it's healthy in low doses, but if you drink too much, it's bad. copy that to smoking and you get the idea. so smoking a j at a party isn't going to cost you years. smoking 20 a day probably will.

All of us shall experience old age, sickness and death... Should we not use this life to find its meaning? May all living beings find happiness and its causes.

This guy needs to listen to Aubrey de Greys lecture here on TED.

....I think I'm going for a walk and moving up north now.

China has a variety of languages, Mandarin and Cantonese are the main Chinese languages but there are little village languages. I'm sure this can work with Japan too.

YOU FORGOT CAPS LOCK.

the only thing i disagree with is when he said if you try really hard you cant live to 100, unless you're unlucky with illness/accident i think you can, remember you had to be born in 1913 to be a 100years old today, that 1/5000 figure seems large but if we had the drugs that we do today and knew the dangers of smoking/drinking it could very well be 100/5000 or 1/50.

i was told by a physician who is heavily involved in anti-aging that it's 75% genes 25% nutrition

Evolution doesn't completely stop after having children, human children are quite dependent on elders and their experience

Care to elaborate?

what up steve!

@anananwar I agree. I think that when u have a faith in a God or Religion you tend to want to be ur best and do right by yourself and others because u fear that if u dont live right, or treat others correctly..you will go to hell. I think that if people strive to be their personal best,and to live in peace and treat others correctly,live an active lifestyle and do things they love to do... the world would be a better place and people would live longer.

Factual errors, Danish study did not say 10% "The heritability of longevity was estimated to be 0.26 for males and 0.23 for females." And the danish study was in a relatively genetically uniform population, Also, the 8 year turnover thing is a myth.

Is it true that they have found a new bluezone in Sweden?

zinc iron copper and selenium are biggest soil depleted minerals

what? i don't get it... it's OK for a graph to start at any number it wants as long as it's to scale

6 - its not to stay hungry but to remember at 80% to stop so when you get to 100% you dont overeat. So 6 - Do not overeat

exactly what I think he is saying. live a more natural life.

I love it! And I love this voice.. xoxo Mermaid AmiBeth Queen of the Ukulele and Mermaid Videos!!

Many years ago Johnny Carson had a guest that was around 100 years old. He asked him what was his secret to such a long life. His answer: "I never married".

Ah I listened again and he said what I just said. It's one generation of usefulness

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