Life is long: How centenarians stay young at heart

It's safe to say that without a crystal ball, none of us know for sure how long our lives will be. Hence the expression, life is short, because in many ways it is indeed quite fleeting. Yet for some, life can also be long. Could we all embrace the secrets of people in the world who have lived the longest and healthiest lives? Maybe some of us dread living until a 100, because we imagine ourselves to be frail, bed ridden or not in control of our faculties.

But what if we could lead active lives into our triple digits, full of warmth, connection, laughter and best of all, a sharp mind. Sounds pretty good, doesn't it? Well, that's exactly what many of the centenarians in the so called 'Blue Zones' are doing. These zones are areas of the world that seem to consistently have the highest concentration of people living into their nineties or past one hundred.

See full transcript here.Photo credit: Hector Reyes