Live to 100: Netflix released a series about the secrets of longevity

In the four-episode Netflix series Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones, Dan Buettner, a researcher and best-selling author who has studied the so-called blue zones for over 100 years, embarks on a journey. His path runs through the regions where the largest number of centenarians live: Okinawa (Japan), Sardinia (Italy), Ikaria (Greece), Nicoya (Costa Rica) and Loma Linda (California). Edition CBS News told what he found there.

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The concept of “blue zones” refers to several small regions of the world in which, in a proportion significantly higher than the statistical average, the population is declared to be living significantly longer than the statistical average.

Looking into their homes, we will learn what these impressive people eat, as well as other aspects of their daily lifestyle that positively affects their health.

The four principles that underpin each zone are eating smart, moving, connecting with others, and having a purpose or worldview.

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“The point of the so-called blue zones is not that people live long for the reasons we know when we think about longevity. They, unlike us, do not go on diets, do not engage in intensive sports, and do not take various kinds of supplements,” Buettner noted. “They don’t have a cult of health.” We believe that health is something we should strive for.”

Instead, he says, in the Blue Zones, health is driven by overall lifestyle.

“It is achieved through the proper organization of the environment, and in the Blue Zones this environment is created naturally,” the researcher said, emphasizing that these ideas can be applied regardless of age.

“You can add six extra years to yourself at 60, and 20 at 13, by living a Blue Zone lifestyle compared to the average American lifestyle.”

In his latest book, The Blue Zones: Secrets for Living Longer, Buettner goes even deeper into how people can tune their environment to unconsciously encourage healthy living, much like Blue Zones do.

“We make about 220 nutritional decisions a day. Only about 10% of them (22 or so) are conscious, the remaining almost 200 are unconscious, explained the best-selling author. — The Blue Zones approach does not try to force you to have the discipline or fortitude to manage these 20 decisions. It's about helping you organize your kitchen and your social life so that those 200 unconscious decisions are a little better."

In a Person to Person interview with CBS News' Nora O'Donnell, Buettner shared tips for making simple recipes to prolong life. But even those who are already familiar with his work will be able to learn something new from his latest projects.

According to Buettner, there are about a dozen new things to learn from the series, including about what he calls Blue Zone 2.0: Singapore.

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"Singapore shows that we don't have to be as sick and unhealthy as we are as a nation," he said. — There are other economically developed young countries that are distinguished by enormous cultural diversity. They have much better health indicators."

Buettner has not yet completed his research and has reported three new locations he is studying and hopes to reveal soon.

“Now I’m more interested in the duration of a healthy lifestyle as such. "The Blue Zones were about long life, but now there are new indicators that measure years lived in full health, and the United States is showing pretty bad results," he said.

The researcher believes that these new indicators should give an idea of ​​​​how "not only to live to 95 or 100 years old, but also to make this journey absolutely easy and feel great along the way."

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