In Okinawa, long-lived residents always have a reason to get up in the morning.
In 2008, National Geographic writer Dan Buettner published his best-selling book, “The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest,” about the five “longevity pockets” around the world.
One is ikigai . Loosely translated as the happiness of always being busy, Buettner said it’s more about having a reason to get up in the morning. Miralles believes ikigai is why Okinawa’s centenarians “are free of stress.” Dr. Craig Willcox, a gerontologist and co-principal investigator of the Okinawa Centenarian Study, described them to me as “happy-go-lucky,” confident that “it will all work out in the end.
The moai is especially important because Okinawans’ incomes and assets are small. Annual incomes are almost half of those in Tokyo, and assets are only a third as large as for people in Japan overall, said Takaoh Miyagawa, a retirement researcher at the Japanese insurance company AEGON Sony Life. The Blue Zone of Sardinia, Italy Roughly 120 miles west of mainland Italy lies the isolated, rugged Blue Zone island of Sardinia, Italy. It’s actually the first place that was labeled a Blue Zone, which happened in 2000 when demographers drew a blue circle on a map around this low-income area peppered with male centenarians. Unlike the other Blue Zones, researchers found that in Sardinia, it’s mostly the men who live especially long, healthy lives.
Belgian demographer Michel Poulain, who helped coined the term Blue Zones, told me: “I have never heard of anyone [there] who wanted to save and put money in the bank.” Community support of the Sardinian Blue Zoners is very strong here, too. “People are literally on their doorstep who’ve got their back,” said Hitchcott. “There’s an incredibly rich network of close family members and friends who are very much out looking after each other.”
People in Ikaria, I learned, reach age 90 at 2 ½ times the rate they do in America; the average life expectancy in Greece overall is 80. They eat a version of the Mediterranean diet and frequently climb up and down the island’s 20 steep hills, giving them exercise and strength. One study found that 60% of Ikarians over 90 are physically active.
Here, stress is practically nonexistent. Practically everyone takes a midday nap. And, Litwin said, “Time is a different entity on this island.” As an example, Tinios said, “One village has reversed day and night; shops open at 11 at night and people go to sleep at 8 in the morning.” In Ikaria, “they don’t pay attention to money or artificial things,” said Dr. Christina Chrysohoou, an Athens cardiologist who has studied the health of the oldest Ikarians. “They live poor, but happily.”
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