Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. In 2023, Netflix released a documentary titled “Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones,” which looked at some small, geographically isolated places ...

Wood is a medical journalist and author. Her most recent novel is “The Leap Year Gene of Kit McKinley.” Topol is a cardiologist, executive vice president, and professor, at Scripps Research. When ...

The authors outline how Blue Zones research relies on multiple independent documentary sources, including civil birth and death records, church archives, genealogical reconstruction, military and ...

In a tiny island village in the Mediterranean, a senior man makes the 15-minute walk to the market to fill his bag with artichokes, olives, and tomatoes from the local, sprawling farms. Heavy produce ...

The average life expectancy in the U.S. is just over 78 years — but in certain countries and regions, more people make it past 100, seemingly without even trying. What are the secrets of these pockets ...

Why do people tend to live longer in some places? It’s a question researchers have been studying for decades. So-called “blue zones” are regions where people have unusually long lives, and where there ...

New York, NY, Birmingham, AL, & Sassari, Italy — A new peer-reviewed paper published in The Gerontologist provides the most comprehensive scientific response to date addressing recent critiques of the ...