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🇯🇵Home to the world’s longest-lived women, Okinawa, a group of islands in the South Pacific offers many secrets to longevity.

👉The Okinawa tradition of forming a moai provides secure social networks. These safety nets lend financial and emotional support in times of need and give their members the stress-shedding security of knowing there is always someone there for them.

👉In Okinawa, at age 5, children are put into these committed social networks. One specific moai that Dan Buettner discovered in his book Blue Zones, had been together for 97 years; the average age of the group is 102 🀯

They meet every day to drink sake and gossip. If one of them does not show up, the other 4 put on their kimonos to walk across the village to check on their friend.

🥢Okinawans also attribute their longevity to the old Confucian mantra said before meals ‘Hara Hachi Bu’, which reminds them to stop eating when 80% full, so they do not overeat, which links with the calorie restriction model of anti-ageing.

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