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Are "Blue zone" Okinawa aging studies just pension fraud / people posing as their elderly parents to keep getting $?

"The government then launched a review which found that 82 percent of Japan’s centenarians — 230,000 people — were missing or dead."

https://t.co/zBMQicFiKL

Elad Gil

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lol @ted 
https://x.com/eladgil/status/1891531658550972685?s=46

lmao. data issue not exclusive to Okinawa. happened in Italy and also in the US (see attached) whjere more than 1M people above age of 150yo per SSN.

the thing is that the common factors of blue zones *are* good for heath (mediterranean diet, being functionally fit, strong social circles, sense of purpose).