Name: 【TED】Susan Pinker: The secret to living longer may be your social life (The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker)
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everywhere, women live an average of six to eight years longer than men do.

In 2015, the "Lancet" published an article

where there are six times as many centenarians

It's the only place where men live as long as women.

I decided to research the science and the habits of the place,

that genes account for just 25 percent of their longevity.

So what does it take to live to 100 or beyond?

What you're looking at is an aerial view of Villagrande.

It's a village at the epicenter of the blue zone

and as you can see, architectural beauty is not its main virtue,

It means that the villagers' lives constantly intersect.

I could feel hundreds of pairs of eyes watching me

without this structure, without its walls, without its cathedral,

because defense and social cohesion defined its design.

Urban priorities changed as we moved towards the industrial revolution

because infectious disease became the risk of the day.

Now, social isolation is the public health risk of our time.

they have two or fewer people to lean on.

But let's go to Villagrande now as a contrast

Meet Giuseppe Murinu. He's 102, a supercentenarian

and a lifelong resident of the village of Villagrande.

from what he could find on the forest floor

how he and his wife, who also lived past 100,

raised six children in a small, homey kitchen

Here he is with his sons Angelo and Domenico,

both in their 70s and looking after their father,

and who were quite frankly very suspicious of me and my daughter

who came along with me on this research trip,

is a wariness of strangers and outsiders.

But Giuseppe, he wasn't suspicious at all.

And I wondered: so is that what it takes to live to be 100 or beyond,

that you have to be positive to live a long life.

he kind of looked at me under hooded eyelids and he growled,

the niece who lived with him and looked after him

and she told me, when I questioned this obvious loss of her freedom,

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【TED】Susan Pinker: The secret to living longer may be your social life (The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker)

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