How to live till 83

And how Japanese are doing it.

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How to live till 83

One of the fascinating questions I’ve been constantly trying to figure out an answer to is “How can humans live longer?”

As I’m falling in love with subjects like Cryonics, Slowing down ageing, Organ Cryopreservation, How to live a healthy life, etc. I’m also researching and reading and getting on calls to talk and understand these topics better.

Most people I meet either smoke or drink and every now & then I ask them don’t you want to live till 83. They usually reply with “I don’t want to live that long” and I go why not. You only have one life. My end goal is to live till 83 and tell stories to my grandkids. But I think I’ll keep the ‘Why’ of this conversation for some other day.

Let’s talk about how.

Last week I finished reading the book “Numbers Don’t Lie” by Vaclav Smil and found some interesting concepts. One of the chapters was called “Japanese Diet.”

What’s interesting is that Japanese life expectancy is higher than any other country.

The latest numbers (Females/Males, for 2015-20, in years) :

• Japan - 87.5/81.3

• Spain - 86.1/80.6

• France - 85.4/79.4

• UK - 82.9/79.4 and

• US - 81.3/76.3

Japan has over 86,000 Centenarians.

But how are they doing this?

Is this genetic?
Most unlikely. Japanese were migrants from the Asian continent.

Must be the religious beliefs then?
Religious belief might describe the Japanese mindset better. There are so many countries with traditional beliefs why are they not living longer.

Diet?
This is probably the best explanation out there. The category ‘food’ is pretty wide and I don’t want to bore you with details. Read this page below 👇

We can conclude that it must be the Lower Fat and Lower Sugar intakes.

But again this is far from being the most important explanation.

Studies show that the Japanese daily mean is below 1900 kilocalories

This means that perhaps the single most important explanation of Japan's longevity is quite simple: moderate overall food consumption

The habit is expressed in just four kanji characters, 腹八分目

(Hara hachi bun me, "belly eight parts [in ten] full')

This reminded me of a quote

“Eat half, Walk twice, Laugh thrice and love without measure” - Tibetan proverb.

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10 Interesting things for you 🙌

1. The science of keeping the brain healthy (Blog)

2. Something from my Twitter

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I will extend more on this topic probably next week. Researching and writing it right now.

3. Harvard Study: 5 daily habits to add 12-14 years to your life (Blog & Tweet)

4. Watch till the end.

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5. Interesting Human of the week:- Thomas Edison Jr.
Thomas Edison was so upset with his son’s ineptitude in business, that he paid him $35/wk to use a different name (Jr to then use Thomas Willard) (Read more)

6. Question of the week:- If aging were optional, would you choose to stay young? Reply to this email or comment below

7. Picture of the week:-

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8. Current read: Still reading Linchpin and Will. What are you reading?

9. Meme of the week:- Why apple, I mean like why?

10. Quote of the week:

• “It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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• “Reading will help you find interesting stuff and a collection of dots.
  Writing will help you think clearly and connect those dots”
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• “And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. What do you call it, freedom, or loneliness?” —Charles Bukowski
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