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The Blue Zone Distraction - Cremieux Recueil

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If you support efforts to make humanity immortal, I support you. But I want you to get serious. I want you to avoid citing studies that are little more to you than distractions. If you want humans to live much longer lives, please stop looking at purely correlational social science work that says—for example—people who get married live longer lives and thus marriage causally extends lifespans. To really extend lives, you have to get causal, and you will have to fund real, basic, nose to the grindstone scientific work that produces actionable advice, or you’ll end up distracted by nonsense long enough to die. One major distraction for life extension advocates is geographical peculiarity. That is, regions of the globe that supposedly contain lots and lots of extremely old people, making those regions worthy of study to figure out precisely what allows them to harbor so many of the world’s longest lived individuals. The most notably peculiar geographical regions are known as blue zones: W

Today’s post is brought to you by my sponsor, Warp. If you support efforts to make humanity immortal, I support you. But I want you to get serious. I want you to avoid citing studies that are little more to you than distractions. If you want humans to live much longer lives, please stop looking at purely correlational social science work that says—for example—people who get married live longer lives and thus marriage causally extends lifespans. To really extend lives, you have to get causal, and you will have to fund real, basic, nose to the grindstone scientific work that produces…

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