Today on the exam room. Getting our diet right is the number one controllable thing we can do to add

more years to our life. And if you're listening to me right now and you're an American, you're going to

lose about 14 years of life expectancy eating the standard American diet and living the standard American

lifestyle.

Most of us can get most of those years back by cooking in our kitchen.

Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee.

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you helping to make the world a healthier place.

This is episode 68 of Season 8, number 667 overall.

And today's question is this.

Do you eat like a centenarian?

Well, Dan Boutner, the lead researcher of the Blue Zones and noted longevity expert, he is here

to share the powerful foods that keep the longest living people in the entire world living

healthfully well into their golden years.

Now, of course, the Blue Zones, which include communities like Okinawa and Sardinia, and then here even in the United States in California, Loma Linda, these are communities that are home to more centenarians than anywhere else.

And Dan has gone in and embedded himself into their culture, their lifestyles, gone into their homes, and studied their diets and lifestyles for decades.

And what he found, the results are crystal clear.

It's that what we eat and how we cook and the traditions even that we keep around the food that we make,

they can make a dramatic difference

in how long and how well we live. So in this episode of the exam room, Dan's going to join us

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