Other crucial life practices: adequate sleep and stress management. In blue zones, says Buettner, “people downshift all day long, through prayer, meditation,
or just taking naps.” And scientists are also coming to more fully
understand the role that other people play in prolonging life. A 2019
study in the journal SSM-Population Health found that social
relationships significantly increase life span in older adults.
Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, author of this year’s Successful Aging,
has found that friendships at age 80 are a bigger predictor of health
than cholesterol level. Friends and even neighbors, he writes, protect
your brain,while loneliness “has been implicated in just about every
medical problem you can think of.”
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