<story><title>Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6125071/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>garyfirestorm</author><text>&lt;i&gt;One Ikarian in particular, Stamatis Moraitis, moved to America when he was 22 years old to pursue the American dream. He was a painter, and immediately started having success, bought a house, married, and had 3 kids. At the age of 66 years, he developed terminal lung cancer. Instead of dying in America, he decided to move back to Ikaria and moved in with his parents. He started breathing the air, drinking the wine, and eating a Mediterranean diet. After a few months, he planted a garden not planning on ever getting to harvest the vegetables; 37 years later he has a vineyard producing 200 L of wine a year. His secret he says? “I just forgot to die.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is where I think the article loses its credibility significantly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Gatsky</author><text>This was likely tuberculosis and not lung cancer. Autopsy series have shown that TB is easily confused with cancers. 40 years ago the diagnostic tools available were very crude.&lt;p&gt;There is a crackpot promoting weird cancer therapies in my country who claims to have cured himself of metastatic sarcoma, but a peer reviewed medical analysis of the details suggests that was also TB.</text></comment>
<story><title>Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6125071/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>garyfirestorm</author><text>&lt;i&gt;One Ikarian in particular, Stamatis Moraitis, moved to America when he was 22 years old to pursue the American dream. He was a painter, and immediately started having success, bought a house, married, and had 3 kids. At the age of 66 years, he developed terminal lung cancer. Instead of dying in America, he decided to move back to Ikaria and moved in with his parents. He started breathing the air, drinking the wine, and eating a Mediterranean diet. After a few months, he planted a garden not planning on ever getting to harvest the vegetables; 37 years later he has a vineyard producing 200 L of wine a year. His secret he says? “I just forgot to die.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is where I think the article loses its credibility significantly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kashunstva</author><text>The story is repeated all over the internet but even reasonably thorough articles fail to bring medical clarity.  It’s always “nine doctors agreed”, “x-rays showed terminal cancer”, etc. In 1976, when he was diagnosed its possible, though somewhat unlikely he had a chest CT since scanners were just becoming available then. More importantly, what no accounting of this history mentions is a &lt;i&gt;biopsy&lt;/i&gt;. Without a tissue diagnosis and without sophisticated imaging the story is sketchy.</text></comment>