How to Enter the Blue Zone - Plant-Based Life Foundation
Being helpful, working to heal others and the planet, and being gentle with oneself are good places to start aligning oneself with a universal way of life.
Jonathon Miller Weisberger • Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon
The important thing is not just what we eat but the way we eat. As it turns out, there is a strong correlation between fasting behavior and longevity in Blue Zones such as Ikaria, Greece, “the island where people forget to die,” where one-third of the population lives past the age of 90 and almost every older resident is a staunch disciple of the G... See more
David A. Sinclair, Matthew D. LaPlante • Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
they found that three months of whole-food, plant-based nutrition and other healthy changes could significantly boost telomerase activity, the only intervention ever shown to do
Michael Greger MD • How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
There were several other characteristics in the lifestyles of our miracle-list patients that began to stand out in addition to their spiritual practices. Many of them had adopted the practice of fasting from time to time. Almost all of them engaged in some form of physical exercise. And an overwhelming number were taking some form of docosahexaenoi
... See moreAlberto Villoldo • Power Up Your Brain
The lessons are clear. Live close to nature. Love deeply. Eat simple food raised sustainably (ideally by your own hands). Move naturally. Laugh and rest. Actually live. (And live longer, as it turns
Mark Hyman • Young Forever
People who live longer would need more energy to perform more maintenance (DNA repair, cellular regeneration, etc.). People who live longer would need to get better at utilizing energy to increase protection against aging and maintaining normal function for longer.
Valter Longo • The Longevity Diet
The vast majority of nutrition experts point out that carbohydrates continue to be the dietary mainstay of the world’s healthiest populations—not just the fast Kenyans, but also the long-lived Okinawans of Japan and the thriving elders of Italy, Greece, and other Mediterranean countries.
Amby Burfoot • Run Forever: Your Complete Guide to Healthy Lifetime Running
It is perhaps unsurprising that in the small enclaves of Greece where siestas still remain intact, such as the island of Ikaria, men are nearly four times as likely to reach the age of ninety as American males.