The Truth about Blue Zones

Okinawa, Japan - Sardinia, Italy, Loma Linda, California. These locations are considered blue zones.Show more

Blue zones are classified as locations where people live well past the age of 100 - they typically eat Mediterranean or plant based diets.

Blue zones are categorically mythological.

Data collected in these regions have been found to be inaccurate. In Okinawa - if you look at the statistics from within Japan, they have the shortest average lifespan.

Loma linda population of 23,000 - they have an average lifespan of 86 and 83 - But so do all 125 million citizens of Japan, all of the citizens of Hong Kong, all of the citizens of Singapore. In 2010, an investigation into Japanese records found that 238,000 people greater than 100 years of age were actually missing or dead.

Fraud and data error are some of the reasons blue zones have managed to claim higher longevity rates. In reality Blue zones have some of the lowest life expectancies in the world.

Bio Rx iv - Super-centenarians and the oldest-old are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates and short lifespans

BBC title from 2010: More than 230,000 Japanese centenarians 'missing'