RESEARCHERS HAVE BEEN LOOKING INTO A TINY ITALIAN ISLAND,
SARDINIA, BECAUSE THAT ISLAND ALONE HAS A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT
OF INDIVIDUALS WHO LIVE PAST THE AGE OF 100.
CENTENARIANS AS THEY ARE REFERRED:
IF YOU LOOK AT SARDINIA AS AN ISLAND YOU WILL NOTICE THAT
THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE THERE WHO MANAGED TO LIVE PAST
THE AGE OF 100, SO WHAT GIVES?
WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
IS THAT THE OLIVE OIL?
EVERYONE IMMEDIATELY GOES TO DIET AND EXERCISE AND LIFESTYLE
HABITS AND THE RESEARCHERS ACTUALLY DID CONTROL FOR THOSE
FACTORS AND THEY FOUND THAT ANOTHER FACTOR THAT OFTENTIMES
ISN'T TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH IS HOW A SOCIAL SETTING CAN HELP ALONG
GATE OR LENGTHEN YOUR LIFESPAN.
SO THIS WAS A SHOCK TO ME, BUT THEY FOUND THAT THERE WAS A LOT
MORE FAMILY INVOLVEMENT HERE IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD.
FAMILY IS ALL UP IN YOUR BUSINESS ALL OF THE TIME AND
SOMEHOW
THAT LED TO A LONGER LIFESPAN.
THAT IS UNBELIEVABLE TO ME.
YOU ASSOCIATE FAMILY WITH STRESS.
NO, I LOVE YOU EVERYONE, FAMILY MEMBERS WHO ARE WATCHING,
BUT YEAH.
LOOK, I'M GOING TO GET INTO THE SPECIFICS OF HOW PEOPLE
SOCIALIZE IN SARDINIA COMPARED TO OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD, BUT
IT IS INTERESTING TO SEE THAT INCREASED FAMILY INVOLVEMENT
INCREASED SOCIAL BEHAVIOR HAS LED TO LONGER LIFESPANS
LIKE THIS.
SOCIAL INTERACTION WAS A POINT OR A VARIABLE THAT DOES
NOT USUALLY COME UP WHEN WE THINK ABOUT HEALTHY LIVING ARE
LIVING LONGER AND PEOPLE PREVIOUSLY STUDIED GENETICS,
DIET AND EXERCISE AS WELL.
THIS IS THE PHILOSOPHY THAT FOLKS ADHERE TO WHEN THEY THINK
ABOUT BLUE ZONES AROUND THE WORLD, PLACES FOR PEOPLE LIVE
VERY LATE IN THEIR LIVES BUT WHAT IS REALLY INTERESTING IS I
HAVE BEEN READING UP ON WHAT SOCIAL INTERACTION DOES FOR US,
SOCIOBIOLOGY AND THIS GUY WROTE THIS BOOK CALLED CHASING THE
SCREAM AND HE REVEALED THAT, I DON'T KNOW IF I HAVE TALKED
ABOUT THIS ON TYT, BUT HE REVEALED THAT THE STUDY THAT
INFORMS EVERY WAY WE UNDERSTAND ADDICTION WAS REDONE WITH A VERY
DIFFERENT VARIABLE SO THE STUDY IS A RABBI ITSELF IN A CAGE
DRINKING WATER THAT IS COCAINE LACED AND THEN WATER THAT IS
REGULAR DIET AND THEN OF COURSE, IT WENT FOR THE COCAINE EVERY
OTHER TIME AND THEN THIS GUY BRUCE ALEXANDER REPEATED THE
STUDY AND HE PUT THAT RAT IN A RAT PACK AND IN THAT RAT PACK
THEY FOUND THAT THAT RAT OR ALL OF THE RATS TRIED THE COCAINE
LACED WATER BUT THEN WENT BACK TO THE REGULAR WATER AND SO THEY
THEORIZED THAT BECAUSE THE RAT WAS IN AN ENVIRONMENT WITH OTHER
RATS IT DID NOT NEED TO DEPEND ON A DRUG ADDICTION TO HAVE
DOPAMINE RELEASES, ENDORPHIN RUSHES AND SO SIMILARLY, I KNOW
THIS WAS A LONG STORY BUT SIMILARLY ñ
THAT'S A GOOD POINT THAT YOU ARE SAYING WE'RE GETTING
THE VERY THINGS THAT NURTURE US, THAT NOURISH US, WE'RE
GETTING THAT IN A SOCIAL SETTING AS OPPOSED TO HAVING TO GET
IT FROM EXTERNALS LIKE THE FOOD WE EAT.
SO WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME BUT I JUST WANTED TO
QUICKLY MENTION THAT IN THIS TYPE OF SOCIETY WHAT
RESEARCHERS ARE NOTICING IS THAT UNLIKE IN AMERICA, ELDERLY
PEOPLE ARE REVERED, THEY ARE CELEBRATED, FAMILIES DON'T
SEND THEM AWAY SO HOMES.
THEY LIVE IN THE SAME HOUSEHOLD AND THEY ARE APPRECIATED
AND THEY ARE ALSO VERY ACTIVE.
ELDERLY PEOPLE ARE GOING OUT THERE HAVING CONVERSATIONS AND
THEY ARE PLAYING BOARD GAMES WITH THEIR FRIENDS AND SO THAT
TYPE OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR LEADS TO A CERTAIN TYPE OF HEALTH
FOR, THAT IS NOT A WORD IS A?
HELPFUL EXISTENCE THAT REALLY DOES INCREASE THE LENGTH OF
TIME THEY LIVE.