Critiquing the Blue Zones

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/11/critiquing-the-blue-zones/

The idea that there are portions of the world in which lifestyle choice is leading to a sizable increase in life expectancy for large numbers of people, known as Blue Zones, is increasingly looking to be a mirage, the result of bad data and insufficiently skeptical analysis of that bad data. People are fascinated by longevity, credulous in the face of determined marketing, and Blue Zones have expanded as a cultural concept far beyond the limited evidence for their existence. People will be selling the Blue Zone concept long after the scientific community has written it off as one of many historical errors in epidemiology.

Researchers have spent years identifying what are claimed to be methodological errors throughout the longevity literature. For Blue Zones, the main argument is that a significant proportion of supposed <a href="https://en.w…

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