Name: The Island Where People Refuse to Die
Uploaded: 2025-09-11T15:43:42.000Z
Duration: 19 min 38 s
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In 1976, a man named Stamatis Moraitis was in his mid-60s, diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.

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After being told he only had six months left to live, he decided to move back to his hometown in Greece.

He surrounded himself by his old community, ate local produce, and even had a glass of wine here and there to enjoy his final days.

But as the years passed, doctors were baffled as he kept living.

And he went on to live another 40 years until the age of 100.

Well, strangely enough, there are in fact five small towns around the world where this has been happening at an abnormally higher rate than anywhere else.

Scientists have termed them blue zones and have spent decades trying to understand what they do differently to achieve longer lifespans.

One of them is in Greece, Stamatis' hometown.

One is in Japan, one in Costa Rica, and one in California.

But the original blue zone, and the one with the most records, is the one we will be visiting today.

Off the coast of Italy, tucked away high in the mountains of the island of Sardinia, lies a hidden village called Seulo, where this year alone, out of the 800 residents, six of them turned 100.

So today, we're heading to Seulo to try and discover for ourselves what this town's secret is to an extended life.

Alright, ladies and gentlemen, we are smack in the middle of the island of Sardinia.

We're going to meet people who were in their late 20s when World War II broke out.

Tommy will be joining me on this trip, as well as our cinematographer, Fen Corey, who has joined me on several big trips in the past.

We stayed in a hotel two hours away from the town last night, and even the people working in the hotel didn't speak a word of English.

So, I don't know how we didn't really think about the whole language barrier here.

It's okay, because Corey speaks fluent Italian.

Half the road has crumbled into the valley.

How many kilometers is this road still like this?

He didn't even know how to say hello in English.

And after driving a few hours, we finally saw it.

This is the town where people live the longest on the planet.

We're going to get some food, try to make some friends at the cafe, get social.

Somehow, against most major health recommendations and common sense, the locals in this town actually drink their locally made natural wine into old age.

I thought we were supposed to get a small glass.

Cheers to the beginning of our Blue Zone adventure.

We shall drink and eat what the centurions drink and eat and hopefully gain a few years.

This is the best prosciutto I've ever had in my life, by far.

I don't think Corey's ever coming back with us.

As we distracted the chef and delayed the people in the background from getting their food, we continued our quest to explore the village in the search for its secrets.

We just walked by this random door and like he said, people leave their keys in the door just so that if you need something, you can just walk into the people's house.

You just walk in and be like, time for a little nap.

The locals here also apparently maintain a habit of two to three espressos a day.

And although we usually try to avoid alcohol when we're out on adventures, the locals seem to have other plans.

In cryptic French, we found out that the village was having some form of celebration tonight, serendipitously on our first night in town.

This guy insisted that we come to his house, but doesn't speak a lick of English.

We think he likes us, but we're not entirely sure.

So many pictures of people that live over a hundred.

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