KevinMD June 30, 2024
A windy, bumpy road led my family into Costa Rica’s remote Nicoya Peninsula, one of the world’s five so-called Blue Zones. Our arrival in 2021 satisfied a wish I had made while undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer to visit this fascinating, biodiverse region where people are documented to live healthier, longer lives.
I have taught my students in the lifestyle medicine program at Metropolitan State University in Denver about the literature and evidence supporting lifestyle behaviors specific to Blue Zones for years. But to travel there, meet the people and observe their lives was remarkable. I watched people in their 80s ascend steep hills to the terrace gardens where they harvest their food. A man in his 90s on horseback...
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