How do you live so healthily that you become vital and good-looking even though you are getting older, Maybe over 100 years. The blue zones, exercise, care etc. The question is discussed here and we come close to the solution?

 The blue zones, faith, healthy lifestyle give long life.

If you just add a little strength training a couple of days a week, it can mean a lot to your health. Studies show that lifting a little weight can actually extend its life by 15 years. And you live like the old man Noah and in the blue zones you can get very old see below. When you are young, the muscles are alert and can withstand a lot of stress, but with increasing age, the power disappears. Unfortunately, the muscles begin to weaken already after 30, but it is usually not until the age of 50 that the breakdown of the muscles becomes clear. This is noticeable, among other things, by the fact that we have a poorer balance and become weaker. A reduced muscle mass also contributes to a certain weight gain because more muscles burn more at rest. Strength training not only strengthens your muscles, but also your skeleton.
Research shows where data was collected from 30,000 people. from the age of 65 and 15 onwards, those who lifted weights twice a week had about a 50 percent greater chance of living longer than those who did not do strength training.
If you do not train, you often get pain in the back and shoulders, but these back problems disappear faster if you choose to do strength training and do not return. Studies have shown that 20 minutes of exercise a couple of times a week is enough to prevent back pain. But on top of that, you also get a stronger heart, better mental focus and a better immune system and become happier. Taking the stairs and walking and cycling is free exercise.

Strength training improves

 the immune system

Bodeybuilding improves the immune system more than if you do cardio. Exercise keeps your muscles young longer.

How to get a long life theoretically. Well in short, eat healthy and exercise. Slightly more difficult to practice. The blue zones show the way. The Bible speaks of certain people who became 100 to 900 years old. So before the time of Christ, at least some people lived right and got really old.

The people who have become so old have a lot in common ..........

I think you have to have some healing power. That one lives in constant prayer for one's own and others' health and somehow be in service for God. then one must not let destructive forces destroy for oneself and others. Eat healthy, perhaps following the neutral cabbage diet lifestyle.

If you stop smoking, I guess you add 20 to 30 years to your life expectancy. If you do not work yourself to death as some want in this society, you probably add 20 to 30 years of oxo. Joke and side the only one who benefits if you work yourself to death is the pension authority 😥 . You probably also need some form of fellowship with other people. In today's society more and more people are alone and it simply become a destructive force 😥.

Today's researchers say that it is at least possible to be just over or about 120 years old. If you eat less than 500 grams of red meat per week and move a minimum of 30 minutes per day, you live also longer. Today's unhealthy lifestyle with some dangerous chemicals in various forms that certainly also shorten life a lot.

On the other hand, today we have very good healthcare and the doctors can patch us up so we probably get 20 to 40 years extra. But then, think about 2000 years ago these people who got really old if it is true. They had no digital technology or electricity and telephones and lamps in the same way as today. They must have had a favorable climate and lived with nature and its inherent forces a bit as it was intended from the beginning.

Read that about 200 years ago, life expectancy was 30 to 40 years. Hard life at that time then. If I had lived at that time, I would not have been sitting and writing this as I approach middle age and nail on the coffin lid, but I leave the wooden coat at home and think about my health and my goal and hope is to be at least 120 years old.

I also read that those who were happiest and who had time for other things sat and painted and made music and sang already or before the Stone Age, thus fellowship. That's how man became musical, which I think prolongs life. Read the latest findings that some scientific study has concluded that those who feel alone or are socially isolated have an approximately 30 percent higher risk of dying prematurely.

I also think that that Jakop or Noak who got so old must have had good sleep because you can not be awake around the clock like today when you have lights everywhere and computer screens that interfere. Conclusion you have to sleep well probably corresponds to about 20 to 30 years you can add longevity.

But since it is very difficult to become 900 years old, the question is how to add life to the years and not years to life. Although that is another question.

See below that there were apparently very old people in the past according to the Bible.

Note! clickable (put on translate).

Gen 5: 28f

When Lemek was 182 years old, he had a son. He gave him the name Noah, "for," he said, "he will give us relief in our work and in our toil as we cultivate the earth which the Lord has cursed."

Gen 5: 31f

Lemek's whole life was 777 years; then he died. When Noah lived 500 years, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Gen 7: 6f

Noah was 600 years old when the river flooded the earth. Then Noah went into the ark with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives to save themselves from the waters of the river.

Gen 7: 9-11

A couple of every kind came to Noah in the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. After seven days, the waters of the river came over the earth.

The year that Noah was 600 years old, the seventeenth day of the second month, that day all the fountains of the great deep broke forth and the dust doors of heaven were opened,

Gen 9: 28f

After the river, Noah lived 350 years. Noah's entire life was 950 years; then he died. Noah probably lived a little feudally, ie probably had some animals that gave him care and zest for life and food, so a piece of advice in today's situation is to get a cow joke and side, but a dog or cat probably prolongs life by 30 years.

Noah definitely did not have a refrigerator where he fetched packaged milk🤔. Was probably a little religious and prayed for his health.

So it was certainly in Noah's time he trained a lot for a lot of fruit and bananas and lay and had a siesta in the sun often 🤗.

Therefore, people in the blue zones live longer than others

The picture above highlights the following common features among people having a long life in the world.

1. Family and frends.

2. No smoking

3. Vegetarianism, nuts Specifically in the Sardinian diet, where the majority of the food consumed comes from plants.

4. Constant, moderate physical activity

5. Social commitment. People of all ages are socially active and integrated into society

6. Legumes

7. Purpose in life

8. Stress reduction

9. Moderate calorie intake

11. Moderate alcohol intake, but some wine

12. Commitment to spirituality or religion

14. Commitment to family life

15. Commitment to society

16. Good sunny climate

17. Gardening

18. Friendliness

If you want to live long and be healthy, then you should live like the people in the blue zones. It is not uncommon to be 100 years old there. But what are their secrets? And who are these people?

The so-called blue zones got their name from a group of researchers who circled these unusual areas with a blue ink pen where the common denominator for the inhabitants is that they are unusually healthy and live unusually long.

The blue areas are found in five places in the world. Ikaria in Greece, Okinawa in Japan, Sardinia, the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica and Loma Linda in California.

What are these people doing that adds to the quality of life and longevity of the years?

When the researchers studied the population in the blue areas, they came to the conclusion that there are a number of different things that make them live longer than in other places on earth. This is because what you put on the plate differs a lot in the different zones.

But what they have in common is that they eat a high-fiber diet, grow their own vegetables, they always eat together and they move in a natural way every day. The raw materials are fresh and follow the season. The base is vegetarian and you do not eat meat every day. White flour, sugar and processed foods are very unusual.

The diet is also very varied and in Okinawa you are careful to eat according to the colors of the rainbow to get different types of minerals and vitamins.

Stress is something that does not exist in the blue zones and therefore they always eat slowly. It takes about 20 minutes for the brain to perceive that you are full and then it is better to eat slowly.

These areas are relatively poor, which means that there is no gluttony. In some places, people strive to eat even less, perhaps only eating measured to 80 percent.

Thinking about retiring is not something you even think about. Older people are no burden in the blue zones and even those who have reached the age of 100 go out to their farms every day to water and clear weeds. In other words, they live a natural and active life.

The people in the blue zones not only live long it lives in relationship as well. Many are sexually active well into adulthood. It is very rare with dementia and even diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and even certain types of cancer are rare.

Since there is such a strong health trend right now with a focus on exercise, diets and taking care of oneself, the researchers ask themselves why it does not lead to better health and longevity.

One of the answers is that the great loneliness that people experience in the western world is a contributing factor to premature death. Loneliness is even more dangerous than smoking and obesity (very negative for age, not many fat people turn 100 years old). Another factor is stress.

In the blue zones, there is a strong focus around social contexts, a lot of time is spent on children and the elderly and most people have one and the same life partner through life. The close emotional ties are believed to contribute to, for example, the elderly being less ill. And these five places also have a very beautiful nature. In the blue zones, people do not retire. The elderly are a natural part of society, they continue to work as long as they can and no one is to blame. Dementia is almost non-existent. Diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and certain types of cancer are also relatively uncommon. The blue zones are relatively poor areas, which means that people eat their fill, no more. There is simply no gluttony in either food or material.

Saw on Russian TV about a lady who is one of the oldest in the World and lives in Costa Rica she is about 120 years old and has a large social family and eats small bananas a little green and lives sunny in a small simple house with greenery. Read another article where the Costa Ricans drank or ate a lot of cocoa and the Greeks drank several cups of coffee per day. Also, the Greeks ate a lot of food with beans.