Even people in the Blue Zones experience stress.

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What are Blue Zones? 

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These zones are pockets of people around the world with the highest life expectancy, or with the highest proportions of people who reach age 100.

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Stress leads to chronic inflammation, associated with every major age-related disease. What the world’s longest-lived people have that we don’t are routines to shed that stress. These routines have been termed "down shifting."  Okinawans take a few moments each day to remember their ancestors, Adventists pray, Ikarians take a nap and Sardinians do happy hour.