certain parts of Italy one part of the northern part called Liguria they live

longer than any other region in Europe and in Sardinia which is the

second-largest island off the coast of Italy in the Blue Zone they also are

tied with Japan as living the longest now I just wanted to mention that I'm

not saying that the entire country of Italy ranks higher than other countries

as far as living longer but these two areas definitely are at the top of the

list and another point that's interesting out of over a thousand

residents aged over a hundred and five years old 951 of them are female

okay that's eighty seven point two percent this is because of estrogen

estrogen can act as an antioxidant thereby slowing down the free radical

exposure and damage to the DNA in the mitochondria so now I recently did a

trip in Italy and I interviewed a lady from Sardinia a lot of times when you

read a books or in the news you hear about the blue zone Sardinia they have

all sorts of opinions on what they eat you're gonna find out exactly what

sardines eat so there will be no more mystery and I think you're gonna be

quite surprised at a couple things but before I show you this interview I want

to talk about pasta what's so different about the pasta in Europe and especially

Italy there's no glyphosate in the US they spray wheat with glyphosate that's

like the stuff they used in Roundup Ready now in the u.s. is not GMO but

it's still sprayed with glyphosate unless it's organic but they don't use

glyphosate in Italy now the argument about glyphosate is

that it doesn't affect our genes okay well it definitely affects microbes for

sure okay and we have a lot of microbes within our gut and throughout a body in

fact we have over thinkin sicom a hundred trillion microbes living inside

and around it's it's about five pounds of microbial life and this chemical can

definitely affect the genetics of those microbes and we depend on those microbes

and they depend on us and they become part of us

so glyphosate can definitely create a lot of problems in your gut if you

consume it also the wheat used in pasta in Italy is not enriched okay with iron

and synthetic vitamins iron is very oxidative and corrosive to our bodies in

fact we don't really have a mechanism of getting rid of iron so if you

accumulates too much it can create a lot of problems especially in men because

men are not menstruating like women but if you're a woman in post menopausal

you're in risk of accumulating too much iron if you consuming the wheat in the

u.s. now the type of wheat that's used with pasta compared to bread is the

durum wheat it's a hard wheat it's higher in protein and it digests very

slowly now what's interesting about pasta because it's so condensed is that

it will not spike your blood Sugar's initially okay and it has a glycemic

index of 45 to 50 compared to bread which is 70 however here's the problem

check your blood sugars in two or three hours sometimes four hours and it will

definitely spike your blood sugar so I am not recommending pasta all I'm saying

is the quality of pasta is a lot better in Italy compared to America that's

probably why people go to Italy and they eat pasta and they don't bloat now let's

go to my interview from the lady who lived in Sardinia okay so we have this

young lady here from Sardinia you born there right yeah I was born in

yes and when did you move from Sardinia when I was 20 years old 20

okay and give me some examples of types of food that you eat in Sardinia oh yeah

is it more organic pork meat yeah

pork we ate fish fish what kind of fish it depends sea bream sea bass sea shells

how about lobster and then vegetables vegetables of course do they taste

really good artichokes artichoke many artichokes Wow do you believe do they

eat a lot of sugar there no no too much sugar

Wow even they be so it for their not know and this way they're not really

sweet and then a little pasta but not too much not too much pasta Wow and

what about bread yeah we have right a little bit or a lot of it it depends

that's not too much okay and then olive oil olive oil

yes we've got very good olive oil in Sardinia as well it's right from the Tuscany

other things we we drink the Mirta

what's what is my kind of digestive with my berries the typical plants in

Sardinia any good and then what about people live a long time but they they

spend a lot of time cooking preparing maybe yeah in the past there the women

were more used to you know just find time to bring food for all the family

now we have less time to do that but still really interesting no to to to

cook food no to to to prepare things with some dishes for family fascinating

and how old are you I'm nearly 49 and you're the age to do a woman right it's

bad but your grandmother's still living no how old is she she dies when she was 92

and she look fairly young Wow and then how about your stress level and

Sardinians did a high stress low stress

that's that's one of the secret Wow the stress you know the life is very

quiet no no pressure it's an island right yeah

so you're on the island you have got a fish low pace low stress but vegetables

and healthy food and like many part of Italy a thing but

maybe in Sardinia even do you know the water Pantheon is different

do you drink do you drink the water right from the tap or do you have a

filter yeah when I was young yes I used to drink water from the tap now and then

do they drink wine yes they drink a lot yes but do they

ever drink too much or just enough just a little bit between beers you know 13

yeah yeah do they make you longer no not their own beer but there are many

interesting many companies are two beers Wow and how about like the pesticides

the GMO foods do they do that there or no I think not too much

I'm gonna trust them no so they kind of kept the culture there all the time

looks like agriculture has been there for they keep the culture the same they

don't alter it and become more American no no they want to keep you know the

culture to imitate the culture to the island we are an island

so we don't have many in the past we don't we do not we didn't have any

contact with the other countries they keep

they preserve the culture the or them the food recipes even the maybe

the veget called the plans young well so I will be moving to Sardinia shortly and

I'll be living there that was interesting wasn't it I mean she

definitely does not look 48 or almost 49 years old but did you hear what she said

pork okay now we've been taught that pork is very bad for us right well they

consume a lot more pork fish shellfish loaded with DHA okay

iodine selenium zinc copper very very good for anti-aging vegetables

artichokes but not much sugar not many desserts and not much pasta some bread

some wine of course and some beer olive oil of course and a digestive okay some

type of berry that actually helps the digestive process low stress they walk a

lot probably to burn off these carbs right here now it's very very difficult

to isolate exactly what specific food or thing is helping Sardinians look longer

but I want to ask you out of all of these or some other other factors go

ahead and list down below in the comment section what you think contributes most

to longevity from people that live in the Blue Zone

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