Bolotana

So here, here's kind of what they looked at.

Um, uh, the, there was an, a, a study it, the, the study was published in Frontiers in Aging, and of course it was done by National Geographic, and they did the analysis of, of demographic records of this village, uh, Bolotana, um, a 2,300 resident village right in the center of the, of the island of Sardinia.

Mm-hmm.

And they found that local women are almost three times as likely to become a centenarian as women in the United States.

Okay.

So they, they examined the demographic records of these 2,300 villagers, and they found a pattern of longevity among older adults, and particularly the women, and they documented at least 38 centenarians among a population of only about 3,000 people born in Bolotana between 1900 and 1925.

They say that nearly 14% of the female residents who reach age 70- Will live to 100, compared to only about 3.5% of women in the rest of Italy, um, and 3.6% in the United States.

So that's a significantly larger percentage.

We shouldn't let oil-soaked politics give the future away twice.

Why are the women of one tiny Sardinian village living to a hundred? Speaking of the future, how'd you like to see a hundred? In Bolotana, a mountain village of about twenty-three hundred people on the Italian island of Sardinia, researchers say they may have found a new blue zone where people live extraordinarily long.

A study in the journal Frontiers in Aging found that thirteen point eight percent of Bolota- Bolotana's women who reach 70 go on to reach 100.

In the rest of Italy, it's around three point five percent.

For the village's men, it's under five percent.

[laughs] Yeah, which is fantastic news.

This is Bolotana, which is a tiny inland mountain village in the Italian island of Sardinia.

A study of centenarians there has found that 13.8% of women in this village who reach 70 will go on to live to 100, and that actually makes this village second in the world for female longevity after Hong Kong.

This is a tiny little village.

Gee.

Lots, lots of chatting going on in the village.

The mayor of Bolotana said it could be a clean, fresh diet, but he also added, "No one's renouncing this type of traditional local pastry filled with cheese that everyone there eats," so it can't be that.

And he said it could also be the physical activity because despite the fact it doesn't actually even have a gym, it's that small, elderly people, the mayor says, have always walked a lot, and he thinks that that could particularly be women.