How do Japanese live this long?
- If it’s being close to nature, then many countries have beautiful isolated area from modern life.
- If it’s about diet, then what’s so special? African countries have simple and natural diet too, why doesn’t that work?
If you want a chaotic answer to this, Yes Theory has made 2 episodes specifically on a region in Japan and Italy where people get really old.
Spoiler: their conclusion was happiness and a little bit of carelessness, but the video included a lot of different aspects.
Japan has a pretty high suicide rate and they dedicate most of their life to work as far as I know. Doesn’t sound too happy to me.
Japanese corporate culture is actually a relatively modern development, so a lot of older people in Japan have never experienced it.
Google blue zones. What you’re saying isn’t true universally
It’s possible there’s a regional or generational gap there. If you’re pushing 110 you probably haven’t worked in 40 years. You could even argue that the ones literally working themselves to death are the very ones paying for the older generation’s happy carefree lifestyle.
That’s a more recent phenomenon. These folk were retiring just as that culture was taking off.
first of all, you gotta be a lady
then they say fish helps a lot apparently
Probably doesn’t help that all fish are now chock full of PFAS
Hey now, we only know that pfas cause nerological disorders in children and that they don’t go away and are difficult/expensive to filter at scale, maybe they make you live forever, too.
One theory I saw recently which no one has yet discussed is their higher average step count. Walking is good for you.
They don’t eat McDonald’s for every meal and argue for every conversation.
sketchy, badly maintaned birth records do a thing
Also the whole missing centenarians thing they have going. 100+ year old people that haven’t been seen or heard from in years or even decades still marked as alive when most are long dead.
If it’s about diet, then what’s so special? African countries have simple and natural diet too, why doesn’t that work?
Quality of life in Japan vs an African country isn’t comparable. It’s a combination of a healthier diet and higher standard of living. Also, it isn’t unlikely that some of those people’s ages aren’t accurate.
Historically, a lot of walking and eating home-cooked meals that were high in veggies and fermented foods and probably eating lots of seafood and seaweed with other proteins being less frequent.
Milk wasn’t even a part of school lunches until after the war, so people still kicking from the pre-war times mostly grew up without it.
I suspect, though, that life expediencies here are going to drop. Lots of fried food and such these days and I see more and more obese people.
Hentai and Tentacle porn is the fountain of youth.
Good genetics and a lot of luck.
114 yr old from Houston said clean eating, minimize stress and companionship.
Well, I’m fucked.
the composite last names of both the italians is typical of ancient, rich and maybe noble families, so at least for them it might be money.
Green tea
Simple answer? Their balanced siet. They eat a lot of fish and greens with not too much fat.
probably just genetics
maybe something in their culture could also play a part?
