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Can you imagine what it's like to live to be 100 years old or even beyond that? As we dive into the heart of the blue zones, we uncover the vital role of community, purpose, managing stress, and the often underestimated power of rest and sleep in achieving longevity. What if the secret to a longer life isn't just about diet but also the relationships we nurture and the peace we cultivate? Join us in this illuminating episode as we take a closer look at the blue zone's way of life, the impact of diet on longevity, and the role of virtual reality in forming connections. Prepare to reshape your perspective on health and longevity.
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Can you imagine what it's like to live to be 100 years old or even beyond that? As we dive into the heart of the blue zones, we uncover the vital role of community, purpose, managing stress, and the often underestimated power of rest and sleep in achieving longevity. What if the secret to a longer life isn't just about diet but also the relationships we nurture and the peace we cultivate? Join us in this illuminating episode as we take a closer look at the blue zone's way of life, the impact of diet on longevity, and the role of virtual reality in forming connections. Prepare to reshape your perspective on health and longevity.
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But welcome to today's podcast replay from the Killer B Studios. Let's go ahead and dive on in. Tonight, our topic is going to be about health and longevity. Now did I say that word right? That's a pretty big word for me Okay. I should pick up right when I said that let's talk about where this came from, why we're talking about this tonight.
Speaker 2:So I've actually been interested in health for a long time, and so I'm always on the lookout for new resources and things like that. And I saw on Netflix a docu-series. Have any of you heard of the docu-series called Live to a Hundred Secrets from the Blue Zone? Have you heard of it yet?
Speaker 3:Oh good, this is exciting.
Speaker 2:Okay, because we're going to give you a little. You know some tidbits here and there, but if you have Netflix and you are able to watch it, it is such a good series. So the point of it is, a blue zone is a place that has people that live to 100 years old at much higher concentrations than anywhere else in the world. So this particular series is following, I think, six or seven or eight maybe, places in the world where people live to 100 in just much higher percentages, and so I meant to look it up and I forgot.
Speaker 2:The guy who put together the docu-series has been studying longevity for, I think, like 30 years, and so he travels to all of these places and interviews the people, lives with them for a while to see what their habits are intentional or unintentional and then is trying to make connections about what is making people live healthier lives and longer lives, and so, yeah, so we're really excited about it, and we've been talking about ways to incorporate some of these things that we're learning into our lives, and we wanted to share those things with you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so does this sound exciting to you guys? You guys interested to hear about this and some of the things we've been learning? All right, great. So let me ask you this has anybody, does anybody here know someone that is over 100 years old?
Speaker 2:Okay, all right, no, and anybody know anybody that's oh, that's like that's in their 90s.
Speaker 1:Anybody know someone that's in their 90s. Oh, don, don and Skyler, all right, cool, awesome. Oh, and Taylor, okay, does any. Either one of you want to share? I'm going to ask you do either one of you want to share something that maybe that person has has taught you that, maybe something that you kind of hold dear to you? Either one of you, one of you, have something like that you'd like to share, skyler, or yeah, come on down. Come on down on the mic, skyler. Thank you. Thanks for joining us, hey guys.
Speaker 2:Hey, hi.
Speaker 3:Thanks for being here, thank you for having me. My mother she's actually 93 years old, wow, and she's phenomenal woman. She gets around, she has all of her wits about her and I think she learned early to kind of keep her stress down. And I would only contribute her keeping her stress down. She retired at a very early age, I'm going to say like in her 40, 45.
Speaker 2:And she's just had a pretty good life.
Speaker 3:You know, raised her children happy home and everything as well. I think her longevity is less stress.
Speaker 1:Wow, who here would could use some less stress with some confetti? Yeah, yeah, I think all of us, yeah, a lot of us here. So, skyler, let me ask you what is one thing that your mother has passed on to you? Like you know what? That's what I'm going to remember, like that's so important, a treasure to you that you hold dear.
Speaker 3:Keep your family close. Never forget who God is. He's always a part of who you are. And she and I just spent some time together, just one on one time about a month or so ago, and she made it very clear that our time with God, having him in our hearts, counting on him for all things, is something that I would cherish. Spending time with her, that she's really All right. That's all I got. Yeah, he's always just kept me centered in that way.
Speaker 2:Dealing with stress is something that he touches on in this series, and I'm gonna come back to that later because it's fascinating what he says about that, but so Olivia, I'm gonna ask you if you can put your hand around on Mike.
Speaker 1:I would like to ask you a question before we start diving into this is, when you think about longevity and health, what first comes to your mind?
Speaker 4:for me now it's kind of changed, and I think of mental health.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's good, yeah, that's good, that's good, that's good.
Speaker 2:You know, as you go through life and you know, different things become Important to you or apparent to you in some cases. You know, you just look at health in different ways altogether, and for me I guess, like the journey that that we've been on for many years is I always Associated health and longevity primarily with diet, so I knew that other things were important too, but I just thought that was the most important, and so that is one of the fascinating things that I learned from this Docu-series is as he's going through these different cultures and comparing their lifestyles. Diet is important, but there were so many other things that are important to that. Diet just played a small part, and my favorite thing that I learned can you know, dealing with diet, is that a lot of these places that have high rates of longevity they eat their carbs. Man, they eat pasta, they, rice they eat.
Speaker 1:I see confetti other.
Speaker 2:Like all you hear ever is oh, don't eat carbs, they're evil. And I'm just happy to know, like you know, carbs are not bad for you need them in your body and. But the beautiful thing is like, in particular, like the Italians, you know, they eat a lot of bread, they eat a lot of pasta, but they also eat tons and tons of vegetables. They eat less in general, you know, fewer calories than we do in America, and all of those things kind of lend themselves to better health. So, yeah, I thought you'd be happy to know that about the bread and pasta.
Speaker 1:I know I was. I was like, yeah, and, and they're eating meat too. And so I was like, oh really, okay, I mean not nothing. I mean obviously you don't have to eat meat. There might be vegetarians here. Mrs Killer B used to be a vegetarian she, she wasn't. When we started dating I said that's good, because we probably would never got married, would never made it. No, actually, we more vegetarian stuff now do. Now, then we do anything. Really.
Speaker 2:We had more Vegan dinners and and they would meet that's true, but I do not think you would have married me if I was a vegetarian when we met.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, I don't know if we ever told you guys that story, but the first time when we were married and she put together this really nice dinner, I did not. Okay, I'm paying the picture, as you know, it's from her shoes. Okay, this is not the way I was seeing it, but she put together, she worked really hard, put together this beautiful meal and I came down and sat down she's like dinner's ready and I came to the table and I sat down and I said Where's the meat? She's like oh my gosh. So we made it through that, but I had no idea. I was just like where's the meat? Like where's it at? Where are you hiding it?
Speaker 2:But I love that story too.
Speaker 1:It is very interesting to see the diet aspect of it. Now I'll tell you one thing that really, again, you guys should definitely go check out this series, because there's this docu-series, because there's a lot of information. Like we're not even going to be able to cover it all, but we wanted to share some of the things that's been really touching with us because we're trying to make better decisions too. As you know, I'm coming out of a health issue and I feel a lot better. So I'm like, okay, I want to pay attention. What do I need to change in my life too?
Speaker 1:One of the things that really surprised me and Skyler said that you know, her mom was like, really, it sounded like she was really active and stuff still, which is awesome, and that was one thing that was really surprising about this series. You would think that people in their hundreds, you'd be like, okay, they're probably going to be moving around pretty slowly. There were guys jumping on horses and I mean I was like how in the world would sit in Indian style and like raising themselves up like they're doing yogurts up, and I'm like what the heck? They're living active lifestyles, really active, and some of the interesting things. That was really standing out to me was they pointed out, mrs Cooley. They pointed out about how elderly is here in the States, how a lot of us are injured because of falls, right? Is that what he was talking about there?
Speaker 2:Falls lack of mobility, yeah, like losing the strength in your lower body and your stability. Mainly, you know your core strength and all that At all. You know if you're not using it you're going to lose it.
Speaker 1:You know, yeah, not using it, you're going to lose it. You should write a song about that. It's kind of rhymes, oh maybe I will If it rhymes. You're supposed to do a song. I think he's hovering over that button right now, I see her.
Speaker 4:Yeah, she is so close. Okay, yeah, I was, but I let it slide.
Speaker 1:Let it slide. I saw her, she was like this, she like ran over like real quick of her new legs. I was like, nah, that's great, that's great, that's great.
Speaker 2:You're on the nice though, mister.
Speaker 1:I know, I know. So what was cool, though, was to see like there was one guy again. He was like sitting in the instill and lifting himself up, and I was like, how in the world is he doing that? And they were talking about how one of the things that they realized is they are very active like active lifestyles Now, not active like throughout their working out and trying to build all this muscle they're just doing they're not going to the gym and stuff.
Speaker 1:They're doing normal things every day, like from, like you say, like going to the garden, picking things from the garden. What was really cool? Walking places. They had a one town. They realized the town itself, like they all would have to walk up a hill to go where they want to come, wanted to go, and then they'd walk back down. So it was just normal activities. Helped with that. And then also this was what really shocked me and we're still trying to figure out what are we going to do here was they talked about the.
Speaker 1:They sit down on the ground Like they sit to the ground, they sit lower. So whenever they sit down, they're basically doing like a squat, getting up and down. So they're using those muscles. Where us, you know, I just slide on the couch Half of the time. I'm like I'm just like, okay, let me just fall on the couch and let me slide off the couch, and it's like I'm never using those muscles much. So we've been talking about that. Even with the Oculus. I'm like, well, maybe, which I'm? I'm sitting in the chair right now. So I didn't do it.
Speaker 1:Sitting on the couch. Okay, you're sitting on the couch, okay. I said, well, maybe when we're on the Oculus we'll just sit on the floor too. To that way, if we're getting up, we're doing a full. You know a full, I guess squat or whatever you call it?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:There was something about dieting too. I just remembered that I think it was important to hit two, and you were talking about it. It's about the what was it? The 2080 thing, or what was that. Remember that? Sure, that was really. We've been practicing it and it's not easy.
Speaker 2:It's not easy, but okay, this is a Japanese principle that is called well. I mean, I can't say the words. It's three words and it means out of 10. I'm sorry, it means eight out of 10. But the practical meaning of it is stop eating when you're 80% full. And before they sit down for their dinner, they say the same to themselves and it's just a reminder, like 8 out of 10, I'm gonna stop when I'm 80% full, and we've been trying. And let me tell you, you know, when you've got a plate of something amazing in front of you.
Speaker 3:To make that choice.
Speaker 2:But, you know, it's how, when you don't stuff yourself, to how much better you feel. You know, because your body Doesn't want you to be stuffed like that when you're trying to digest. And yeah, so I've, we've been practicing that and it's helpful.
Speaker 1:We've been practicing. I mean, I would love to know how everybody here in the audience throwing so confetti to let me know if, how many of you just have a hard time actually Stopping because you're like, hey, I'm a healthy fool like you, just keep eating to finish it. Because for me it's like if I have something on the plate, even if I'm full, like I'm not gonna waste that food, so I just keep eating. Okay, I see Skyler, yet, yeah, okay, anybody else in here? Yeah, yeah, it's hard, it's really hard to do that, especially like the other night we were. We were talking about it. We ate dinner. I was a healthy fool and Mrs Killer B orders me this little pint of ice cream that's like a, it's like a dairy-free ice cream, because I can't have dairy and I love that stuff, and I ate the whole pint and I'm like sitting there just watching TV, which was something they pointed out. They said Because we're watching. What is that show that we're watching right now?
Speaker 1:Morning show the morning show, yeah. So I don't know any morning show fans in here like, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, it's really cool. So we were watching that. And If people might be thinking like, is that like the news thing? It's actually the morning show on Apple TV, so like it's so a really cool show, but anyways, we're watching that. So I'm just keep eating this ice cream, I was like, oh, I'm so full, I'm like the ice cream's gone, I ate the whole thing. And one of the things they pointed out was that they noticed that those, the people in these areas Is they eat around a table which we're gonna get to the community part, because when you're eating around people and talking, you actually eat less and slower. So I'm guessing like that helps you process the food more, so you're processing it, not just eating and eating. But they said if you're watching something, if you're just feeding your mind of something and just eating, you're just watching and eating.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's harder to hear the signals your body sending you. Yeah, some of you might have heard my story before about how, you know, when Brian and met Olivia started this show and met Olivia was the you know, the permanent co-host. I was not interested at all in getting a headset. I was just like, you know, it's just not for me. I mean, I just I'm not a tech person, I don't understand anything about it. I just didn't think it was for me and so I think it was about right about a year in, and Olivia, you know, was like interested in having a little more time free in the evenings and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:And I told Mr Killer B like I want to do it, I want to be the co-host. And he said are you kidding me? And it was because of all of the stories that I've heard that have come through this show and the connections that Everyone here has made and the things that happen. And I just, you know, I was just like I want to be a part of that and I really liked what I, what I saw happening here and so, yes, I just wanted to say that like I know that people Might look at you and say you're sitting there on a headset playing a game in virtual reality, like that's not real life. You shouldn't be doing that, and I just want to encourage you, like I Love the connections I see happening here, the relationships that I see happening here, the things that are happening.
Speaker 2:It is beautiful, and I know that it's hard. I know that people don't understand what's happening here, but you know what they're going to, because this is getting bigger and bigger. People are seeing more of it, and so I just want to encourage you, like keep on opening up your hearts to the people around you, because beautiful things are happening here and, of course, still be a part of community in whatever way you can. You know, in real life, of course, too. I'm not saying that, but yes, I'm just so. I'm thankful for this and I'm thankful for the conversations that I've had with so many of you and you know the real friendships that are being formed here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I, it really is. Like that was part of the things in the blues and was they said they realized that the people that were connected with community Were living longer. They were actually getting together, people talking, hanging out, you know, eating food together, dancing, some of them drinking beer together. They just had community. They got together and they spent time with each other. And I love that because we, we were talking about that. I was like you know, community is even happening in here, like we probably connect with more people in here than we do in real life because everybody's so busy in real life too. But you guys make it a point to come out hang out. Like we were just over a Burden and Proust place last night doing a show and then we went over to his loft and hung out out there. Really it was really just a great night meeting new people, good people with good hearts that want to do amazing. They are doing amazing things in here.
Speaker 1:Exactly but people really care about you. You know I've shared of Mrs KillerB. I was like when I was going through the health stuff which it sound like, I said it hell didn't it, but it helped.
Speaker 2:Kind of a little yes it's kind of both.
Speaker 1:It was felt like I was going through some hell but but it was like health, the health issues. But people in here were reaching out to me, praying for me, checking it on me. I'm like, wow, that's amazing. That's amazing. But that helps. That shows in the blue zone. Those people live longer. So there's power that this community actually helps your guys's health as well.
Speaker 2:What ties right into that is purpose. You know, I know a lot of people here are not just here just for the community or just for the friendship, but there's a purpose behind the connection that's happening here and that is a big part of Living a healthy life is knowing why you're getting up every day, knowing why you're putting that time in whatever you're doing. You know Purpose is so important to our mental health. You know, because if you feel like you have no purpose or you have no Calling you have there's a reason why you're here on the earth then that that really does a number on you mentally.
Speaker 1:You know as we get older, we start looking more at that, like, what is what am I doing? Is this really what I want to do? Is this what is my purpose? And they that was part of the thing that I did share that these people woke up, they knew what their purpose was, what they're supposed to do that day, and that's what they were focused on. Like it didn't matter what other people thought, whatever people said, it was their purpose, like this is what I've got to do, this is what I am doing and that's what they focused on. It was beautiful, and but some of that purpose was also, you know, a lot of them like the people has walked up and down the hills, they're, they all went to church and they would walk all the way up to the church and they said they would go there every day and then they walk all the way back. Well, and then we talked about, you know, managing stress. Skyler was talking about that a little bit too. That was a big piece of it managing their stress.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and well, something that he had an expert on there that was talking about, about mental health and Ways to manage stress and things like that but something she said that really struck me is that we were not made to be able to handle the problems of the whole world. So when you know, when we're getting all of this information on new, on the news, on Facebook, on Twitter, everywhere, you know there's things coming at us from every direction. When you are Taking all of that in and there is nothing you can do about that situation, that is unresolvable stress, because the way that we resolve stress is by having a, a plan, like having steps that we can Take to resolve that problem. Like you know, stress in a marriage, stress in a family, stress at work If you just keep stuffing everybody knows this if you just keep stuffing things, you know, just like putting it, you're not gonna talk about it, you're not gonna deal with it, that stuff all comes up eventually, right, everybody knows that.
Speaker 2:But All of these things that we are taking in, all of the disasters All over the world, all the evil things that are happening, when you keep hearing about that, hearing about that, hearing about that, and there's nothing that you can do to help that situation.
Speaker 2:You can't let that go again, and so it's important to limit how much you are letting those things Into your thoughts and your heart. You know there are some things we can do things about. You know, I mean just as a quick, like little advertisement. You know Compassion International or the other organizations that help take care of underprivileged children. You know I love knowing that we have ways that we can help those children, even though we can't go over there and do something ourselves. So I just say all that to say you have to be careful about what you are letting take up space in your mind and the things that you are letting stress you out. And if you realize it is not irresponsible to not watch the news, okay, because if something is important enough you're going to hear about it. But it's overwhelming to your mind and your heart and your soul to be inundating yourself with that day after day after day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's actually a really good point, because they did point out about how they don't have connection to all that stuff, that they're not feeding themselves to that every day, which is another piece of it.
Speaker 2:They're like taking care of their community. They're solving problems in their community.
Speaker 1:And Olivia, as we're waiting to see if anybody wants to come in and share their thoughts about what we've been talking about. Do you have any thoughts right now about some of the stuff we've talked about, especially maybe even about the part about managing stress?
Speaker 2:We would love to hear your ideas.
Speaker 4:I was going to ask real quick. Shana was one of the art. Miscalary was one of the places, sardinia, that they studied yes. Yeah, because I've heard, I've seen another documentary about how they just live. They eat pasta every day and all of that. Yeah, but anyways. But I'm wondering, as you finish, if sleep is one of the things, because Mr Killer B I don't know if you've got to it in the book the Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, but he talks about how we think that it's okay to be getting five hours of sleep.
Speaker 4:But our body like back in the olden days, they would actually get 13 hours of sleep. They had no electricity, so once it got like dusk or whatever, they just went to sleep. Yeah. So I'm wondering if that will be a part of it as well.
Speaker 1:I'm sure it will. I'm sure it will. And yeah, that's an interesting part of that book too, because it's like you think, like when he talks about the things of hurry that really started downspiring, you wouldn't have thought it came from when they created electricity, where you could turn on light, right.
Speaker 4:People stay up long.
Speaker 1:It's like whoa yeah, so that's very interesting.
Speaker 2:Go ahead One thing that you just reminded me of, olivia, is that he did talk about how important it is to have a time of rest Like. You know, different cultures look at it differently, but basically you know, like what we might look at like a Sabbath, you know, and he talked about that how important it is to have that time to rest Like and he even said that like not even just sleep, but just like a rest for your soul. Yeah, so I'll let you know, if that comes up again too Awesome.
Speaker 1:I was going to tell you, Mrs Killer B, the guy's name is Dan Butner, I believe.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, okay, good job.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I would love maybe. I mean I'll reach out to him, Maybe he'll come in here sometime. You'll see if we can get him to come in here and really talk about it, because he's very knowledgeable and done all this research. Maybe we can get him to come here and talk more about it in depth. That would be awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely, please do.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, so we'll reach out to him and who knows, who knows, maybe he'll come join us in the metaverse. Mrs Killer B, as we wrap up, what closing thought would you share with everybody about what we've learned about the blue zone so far? Well, okay.
Speaker 2:So I would think because it's what I want to say to you and what I want to say to myself is that we can always look at the things that we're doing in our life and ask if is this helping me become healthier or is this making me become less healthy? Is this hurting me? Because there are a lot of things that we might do in our lives to escape things that hurt us, or to escape boredom, or to try to deal with feelings that we're not. You know, mr Killer B and I were talking the other night and we were saying like it seems like a lot of the things in our lives that we can do to access and hurt ourselves are all because it all happens because we're not dealing with our emotional health. And I know that's certainly the case for myself, and you know whether that's overeating, you know indulging in too much TV. That's what I want to do, and you know all the things that you can do that you can use in an unhealthy way. It's for a reason. You know you're doing that for a reason because life is hard and sometimes we don't want to deal with the things that we're, you know, trying not to deal with. So I would just say take a good, honest look at your life and look at the things that you just need to deal with, you know. Figure out if you need to find a counselor and talk that through. You know, sometimes you have a really good friend who can be honest with you and you can work through some of those things. Whatever you got to do, just figure out what it is that is holding you back and causing you to hurt yourself and in the long run that hurts everyone around you and you know no one wants to do that, but that's the truth of it, and so that's what I would like I said, want to say to you and say to myself like we can all make small choices every day.
Speaker 2:It is really easy when you start learning about health things to become overwhelmed because there's a thousand things we could do to become healthier. But if you try to change all thousand things right away, it's overwhelming. You will give up. It's expensive. You know it's not a realistic way to to better your life. But if you just pick a few little tiny things that you can work on and start to make those into habits, then you can move on something else. It makes a bigger cumulative effect over your life. Then if you just try, you know I'm going to change these 10 things about my life. Nah, forget it, I'm going to, you know. Then you just go back to your old ways and you never actually change anything. So yeah, start small. Just be honest with yourself about what you can do. That can make a big difference.
Speaker 1:I think that's why the community part is so important too, is you find people you can really trust. That's through building community and building relationships. Find those people. Like you said, find a counselor. If you need to talk to a counselor, if you guys are in here, you guys need to look up a medical coach, because, I'm telling you, a medical coach is a guy that an amazing guy. If you're looking for a counselor, a connective medical coach, his heart is amazing and he is here to really help people. So reach out to him and just know, like you're not alone.
Speaker 1:Like you know, when, when I was going through the health stuff, I like to work out, like I used to work out not like a lot of, I used to like a lot of body weight training and I really got into it a lot for a long time and then I kind of backed off but I was finally happy because I was able to start working out again. But then the health stuff happened and literally it's been, like you know, a total of like over a year. I haven't been able to do the things I want to do and it was really driving me insane and also making me upset, because I wanted to do that, but I couldn't physically do it. So I understand like there's things that some of us just can't physically do. That's okay. That's okay. You connective people, you know, leaning with, leaning with other friends, and pray for each other. Be there for each other and I love the quote from Jason Gray that's up there Be kind, because everyone you meet is fighting their own battle and needs to know they matter.
Speaker 1:I was in here today. Everyone and a friend of mine in here. I had no idea we just came and we were talking and and we were just talking about praying for each other and I'm actually like I think I just, really just want to say I just I just want to give praise right now because I really feel like I'm I'm on the up and it's been a long time. So I just want to praise God for that. And and this person shared that.
Speaker 1:I asked him if there's anything I could pray and they were sharing that. They went. They're going through depression and I was kind of like what I had no clue. You never know. Like, if you're going through something like that, just know like we've all been there and gone through stuff. Just connect with somebody, connect with a medical coach find someone that you can trust to talk to. Don't do this life alone. We wasn't created to do it alone. We were created to do it together. That's why the community is so important. Well, hey, thanks for tuning in to today's podcast episode, if you liked, loved today's episode.
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