Blue Zones Myth - Ikarian Study Review

Nutritionist Mary Ruddick travels the world studying traditional diets and their impact on health. In doing so, she often finds that what people are eating in these remote regions is very different from what the public believes. The famous Blue Zone region of Ikaria, Greece is no different.

[christal.haitai]

I am so glad you are trying to get truth out there. I am an Okinawan health and plant specialist living in Okinawa (for a decade now) and am actively trying to teach the TRUTH about Okinawan longevity. The netflix doc was slyly edited to warp the concepts. I knew almost everyone that was in the documentary too! most regret being in it :(

[PERFECTPOINTE]

Mary please put out new content!! :) you have dropped so many teasers!

[waldguy]

When I came across the claim of 95% plant-based from Blue Zone culture, I did a double take wondering how that could possibly be true based on their geography and what I know of their lifestyle. Your explanation is plausible and sounds accurate. Nothing wrong with those who want to be Vegetarian, but it's WRONG to skew the data. Well done.

[CashMoneyMoore]

It’s disturbing that this flawed science is what we’re basing a lot of health and diet discussions. We obviously need some updated replication studies for the blue zones. Also, they actually make a joke of the meat/lamb divide in my big fat Greek wedding. The mom goes “you don’t eat meat!? Ok, I bring lamb” 🤣

[HarrySerpanos]

As a youngster in Greece, I ate daily grilled pork souvlaki on a stick skewer for lunch and thick sheep's yoghurt for breakfast; damn I miss those days.

[SueWoledge]

You are very kind in your assumption of the researchers innocence in making these errors. Personally, I would think it has been purposeful because like everything else, the drive has been money and control by big pharma and big food, and keeping the population in ignorance of what a truly healthy diet is.

[Crowmother]

I'm in the middle of a debate online with someone who says that you are only focused on what is served in restaurants and not what the people actually eat at home. This person says that most people now eat at restaurants on in Korea and that's why they eat a lot of meat, cheese, Etc. Because that's what served at the restaurants. Can you please speak to this claim? What are the very very old people actually cooking and eating at home on a daily basis? Thank you.

[melissablair]

This is so interesting. Thank you for sharing your work ☺

[jonathanfrost]

Grateful I found your channel. It's becoming impossible to know who to trust, it seems almost everyone has an agenda these days. Thank you for these videos on Ikaria. It's become a place of interest for me and I am trying to find out what the actual diet is, and what is best for people in general.

[scottunique]

I applaud you for the kind way you described the flawed design of the questionnaire and for not necessarily reproaching the authors who I hope were as innocent in their intentions as you believe.

I can't respect any research that misses multiple categories of food like dairy and non red meat. Especially since the conclusions they draw are so very skewed to a political agenda.

[lightlightlight]

Mary, since I watched this video I’ve made effort in being more nutritionally local . I’m wondering what your thoughts are on raw goat and cows milk? Sorry if it was already mentioned in this interview. It’s something I have access to living in a small desert town.

[baconlatte]

This is excellent. Well done. Only thing i would dispute is that the false narrative is not intentional.

[john_ambrose]

It would appear that these flawed studies are more Greek Mythology pushing dietetic association dogmatics than solid science, as you've brilliantly pointed out. More people need to be aware of your remarkable work.

[aaocs]

Thank you for your work. I wouldn't have known about the truth if I had just believed in those blue zone videos. Urgh!! Thank you so much!

[jondeanpt]

I thought I was educated well in nutrition and really bought into the blue zone diet. So the blue zone diet authors have an agenda ?

[salinab]

I have been wondering this for a long time. Thank you for the detailed video! I am curious what they feed their animals. For instance do they feed chickens corn and soybeans? Or mainly wheat?

[issith]

You are wrong. In the mountain villages in ikaria, they have more fertile ground, than closecto the coastal areas of the island. And so they have access to a wide variety of plants that the grow in their own gardens. The weather of the island is such, that in the mountain villages, someone can grow plants that you can find in both coastal and mountainous environments at the same place. So what you are claiming here is totally out of the actual truth. Visit the place, first, and after “declare”. You are misleading. They are just eating lots and lots of vegetables and wild plants as well. And they eat meat, but certainly not so much. They also drink lots of the special wine that they produce in the island, that you can’t find anywhere else in the world. Please don’t do more “declarations “ before you know well, what you’re talking about.