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The secret of Sardinian centenarians | Raffaele Sestu | TEDxViaTirso


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evening everyone knows who the files are and

sestu and because I am here is because I come

I come to the dock then this is mine

sweet little town

I’m in love with my country

of course as I believe it has a part

of Sardinian arsenal particular because

are healthy and the heart of the blue area

of the plate which is the only blue zone

of Sardinia but is one of five

blue areas of the world the five days e

blue of the world are china ua islet

greek of carew a part of nicaragua

with a part of southern california and

lojas between they are called blue zones because

because a group of researchers among the

which an important Sardinian that the

professor gianni ps together with nation

hagiographic have traveled the world

trying to study to discover the areas

where there were more centenarians they did it

with a map and a blue ballpoint pen

when they arrived in ogliastra

by dint of blue circles the countries where

there were centenarians covered by

map is that since they have them

called blue zones this not five

blue areas of the world and arzana and dai

latest studies that have appeared no more than

a month two months ago is probably the

country probably for these studies

they are evolving

but it is probably the country that

highest longevity index of the

world

that is, we compete with known nava e

then we received the attention of

many researchers many months

of communication and this perhaps explains

because I’m here tonight

and if you ask me why in the blue areas

you come to 100 years I will tell you that it is not

easy to say, there is certainly a big one

genetic component and of this then

I will try to speak in this quarter

But the time is just as important is the

fact that you get to 100 years because

you live in a clean environment

they eat healthy foods and live in one

serene family environment where still

the elderly even at 100 years of age

their important role in the family

still with us before a family

make an important decision convenes

his elders if there is a centenary

asks for the opinion to the last one

centenary and this clearly motivates

the elderly to live even longer

even better in your family e

the environment the environment then arsan

you know owns most of the

gennargentu

we are in the heart of Sardinia the z

of the gennargentu you know the marmora tip

and Arzanese and large state territory

part of the gennargentu east but part also

of that west has even e

Arzanese state territory and this is

a view of the gennargentu seen from nuoro

that made to see from another side

and this is this kind of interview

dock is seen from the area exactly

present that to the healthy on the genoa people

something like 17 thousand hectares of

territory and that the state territory

al salesi arrives up to 5 10 km from dei

only even and this is due to

one particular thing you know around the

1300 after Christ for a reason that

still it is not clear some say the

plague for me and others who think

like me it is due more to exhaustion

of food reserves

the inhabitants of a nuragic village

that was on the gennargentu that yes

he called ruinas and was a village

important nuragic you know 300 shed

rays that were more than a thousand people than

they have lived since the dawn of time up

at 1300 after Christ

I did not decide to migrate because

they probably had nothing left from

eat once you’ve cut

all the trees to warm up you have

killed all the buffoons that passed

the hypo was also little else to do

this is the nuragica palace of ruinas

which has recently been restored

the nuragic village and 1200 meters of

altitude and then imagine what

it meant passing winter in winter

below zero at that altitude these

inhabitants arrived at dock in

part at least and arsan has acquired i

territories of the genus

a hundred for over to have left us and

these immense territories on the gennargentu

which were a source of pastures therefore of

economy for the country have done

another very important thing they have

transmitted the genes of longevity and

then I brought you the example of

what are the great things from

people on generates people all live

a lot here is this tree you see

it is a juniper tree this tree of

juniper more than 2000 years this vi

he says what’s still on the gennargentu

of treasures from the botanical point of view and

naturalistic and the oaks are

transferred to the dock these are mine

nice patients that all series

they are part of the Senate of Arzanese

gather in a square and discuss

with a lot of lies though they are there

still here you imagine this bench

virtually almost three hundred years

the bench the inhabitants and I’ll do you

see some of our great great

states we have brought them first

images both federica and federica

arrived 103 years and it was like you see one

noblewoman was always beautiful

elegant all day sabah all

mornings cared for by the daughter-in-law and the girls

they had amputated a leg imagined

and it came to 103 years ago then for

half an hour his prayers and then yes

granted to the media and

then he will receive all the televisions

understood that he had said to di

communication every day and I have you

led to blindness we say uncle and

but to all the elderly no this

my aunt really has come to 101 years and

there is no more

but he had perhaps had the task of

look after c because my mom was

the midwife has always been away from home

so we grew up with her

he deserved to be seen by his aunt

John he arrived at 101 years 100

and a half years though and to tell you all of us

we have a party for the years

old people at Christmas now I am

preparing them we do the week

next where we give the gold medal

to those who arrive 100 years 85 bronze

and 90 silver one hundred gold

then he was very keen on it

his gold medal was not

very well at the end so he has me

called and told me listen to doctor

I do not feel very well as we have to

making that party is accelerated for a moment

figured he died soon after you know

but both from the account that perhaps it was

better accelerate and already giovanni has me

once said look and if you bring me

polenta I get angry because he says that i

venetians eat what we have

ate polenta during the one

polenta always polenta that I can not

more see uncle paolino snap he is

went to Gargano then he moved

A young dock has reached 105 years

he became a television star too

you know that he had done just half an hour

of serene variable transmission and was

he because they wanted an elderly couple

his wife was there beside arrived in

97 98 years and then I remember that

when he had asked to drink water

call the cows are boxes remember

what was the most beautiful day of the

his life said look at if you ask me

what was the best day, not me

I remember

if you ask me what was the most day

ugly is when married the lady here a

flank said c.to of understood then here

this is the thing of uncle Pauline 105 years

deprived that he has become the

testimonial for the Sardinian region of the

longevity and sardinia

when he was 101 he ended up on

pages all the world’s newspapers

because they had bought a page on the

guardian on new york times where he was

the basilica of sacchargia 700 years

olive tree of uras three thousand years paolino

and 101 here to do the photo had

climbed over a fence that day

understand if we have in my country

pallino was exceptional ze edoardo dai

so the story tells two anecdotes of mine

centenarians greedy because maybe I have a

record in my life as a doctor

basic medical arsenal to below 23

followed by a curate who do not have

need me 23 ultracentenarians then it is

so from lardo it has reached 101 years

I told him before he knew he had

a ten children seem to me to a large extent

but the night came back from the fugitive

evidently it happens every now and then

made ten children with this wife

beautiful who loved his wife

dead when he was 95 years old for two

years remained chaste at 97 said maybe

the case of the

c was only then what is the place

better to find a wife

my clinic then he went down

every morning in the clinic if

there were young people left if they were there

the ladies around 70 were holding back

that he was beginning to talk, you do not know

never understood that the tac from sla from

lard an anecdote that now I go to many

sometimes by now pretty and when we have

summoned the centenarians then were 5 a

including dock raffaela and to do

Been a mind at the party

television had arrived

at the same time the television

French and Japanese television

now the Japanese as sony already pulis

little dachshunds, the television

French had sent the camera one

girl one of a meter eighty of

twenty years with a balance of fury ze

Edoardo interviewed him on television

Japanese but looked at the camera

French there was no way to convince him

appeal then they told me sorry

should go by courtesy of de director

to watch I have found I go

with a sure the result is the then

Sonata event both should he need

look but not what I am stupid 9

much better that no you do not

comparison has made this thing epoch and the

Japanese television has it

interviewed on the side because he is not

absolutely shot you have a Grazia uncle

I told you the importance

of food is objectively

important for some research groups

getting to 100 years depends on that

what do you eat is not like this, however, according to me

certainly important

for example, there is a research group

South Korean and that says that eating

fermented cheeses like us

we eat at home they give the yogurt that

that I already have the second of the zones is

important

Goodbye from the Grazia who has reached 102 years

they had asked for the signors, I order it

arrived at 102 because he always has

followed the Mediterranean diet elevates

saying what it means means that it has

always eaten vegetables now has

said the vegetable hurts I ate

to the grass of a hundred sheep because I have

ate the sheep and in fact he but

only ate meat then and everything

as for establishing this thing

of the food you know I quote

veil brought because there is no longer holds

yet the record has now arrived

close to 107 years so he is still

in a nino of the

the blue and 107 year old area brought great

how do you see the crime 906 and the environment there

harbor where images of environment from so

you know part gennargentu in the sun e

if these are the cascades of perin canis

it is one of the wildest places in the world

they are the only gennargentu waterfalls

all the people you have seen so far

the males were there around then

imagine the effort you needed

do every day even just for

work needed to get on and off there

a current of thought that is that

that if he makes them then to the Greek island and of

I told you about careers who say that

you live you get 100 years because yes

it goes up and down because to live it is

forced to make a lot of movement all

days and that’s true it’s not convenient to do

exercise bike always advises from

doctor leave the house and walk the

our environment fortunately still

pristine to pedal and enter

in the closed room it’s idiotic

and this is what becomes pelinka

nistri and then if you are a day

they end up I’m a doctor but then

above all I’m a tourist guide

the most finished day at Arsenal away

company by sowing silver to see

these wonders and I’ll show you and

some of the most beautiful natural monuments

of the gennargentu

this is one of the rates of you then

it is this and the young one because it has

only 1500 years of his bike

these are the ancient ones these have

more than two thousand years

then the rates of tender are the rates

the longest you live in the world, imagine yourself

that when goldoni shines he has become

honorary citizen to the sanese and that

ours always came from meaning

He begins to have his years he also has

the first time he was there

on the gennargentu and I explained to him that

these trees were two thousand years old

written on the courier of the evening when

he commits the comet aimed at

Bethlehem already rustled the rates of

tends itself a beautiful image and that

lower front page on the courier

in the evening

and this is the gennargentu seen from

far away makes you understand how beautiful it is

still our environment as and

pristine and we must do everything

to keep it that way

pristine and have become famous i

our old men and uncle luigino is

arrived at 102 years

just a few months ago that gentleman

you see some I am but you understand with

the mess tin next door you know it’s that

of the mythical Dr. oz

or make a transmission in america that

to 450 million viewers is a

cardiologist and you can still see the

very famous then oz is wanted to come to

arzana to know gianluigi that to 102

years still done arm wrestling with

ozzy chapter this tells you how much

we have become important aunt blindness

she is still alive right now a

106 years and a half the last I went to

find it a week ago to do the

flu vaccine and was doing

the tatting, that is, the embroidery more

they explained to me the other in

wood still continues to do without

glasses and I keep doing his

tatting and 106 and a half years later

I show you heresy

rafaela on her could be written

of books and this image of rafaela is

done when she was 109 years old

arrived near 110 was more in that

period also the granny of Italy but for

tell you this woman and this explains you

what life must have been then

she was engaged to gil angiolino

and when he was 17 years old

the giangio lino was in the fold more

far away dock you have to cross

all the gennargentu to get there and her

all once a week he left

at dusk, dock with horse where

he had put on the putties because he had to

cross reading silver to be

at dawn in the last profit in Siena

where her husband was waiting and there is one

particularity that I want to reveal to you

look at a very rare image here

she and she with husband sentences angelino

wick and when goldoni shone had

asked to gera ago and the news of the

my husband had told her

unfortunately he died young and how many he had

100 1 and then I also succeed this

finished in the evening courier in two

they did 210 years and they were maybe

that we are still looking for then

this business the longest-running couple

of the world and have had no children

they did not want a crazy good and if

raffaela so to speak that it shows

he tells his doctor why

when he called me he was to know how

I was because she was fine

he needed a doctor simply

in the morning she did not wake up and

this tells us why maybe it’s like yes

comes to 100 years to give them healthy

they all come from as a family

that famous nuragic village of the

gennargentu and everyone in that one

neighbors there we measure the centenarians a

square meter because there is one each

just square meter is all the way

his family has exceeded 100 years

this is the wish of Arzanese to all of you

thank you

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