Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "How Japanese People Live To Be 100 | ASIAN BOSS" video.

@Dhhtyu4566 : I would have to disagree. The evidence suggest that genes play the primary role, and diet and lifestyle are secondary in importance. Your telomeres at each end of your chromosomes are only so long. And they shorten with each cell division until they are too short and they can't enable cell division properly anymore, and once that starts with the majority of cells in your body, you will be afflicted by all manner of health problems and diseases that no diet or lifestyle will stop from killing you. There's also no evidence that suggest that telomere length can be influenced in any way by diet or lifestyle, giving further creedence to the idea that telomere length is determined primarily by genetics. Also, looking at Okinawa and it's high concentration of extraordinarily old people does suggest that genetics play a big part since Okinawa is a pretty small geographical location with a limited genepool, suggesting that some ancestors of the current day okinawans were blessed with genes that grant their owners significant longevity.
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@250kmonths : Wrong. Your genes pretty much determine how long you will get to live. No amount of exercise or "healthy living" will prevent death at the particular age where your genes give up the ghost.
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30 years old here. Still have to show my ID to get into bars and buying booze at the liquor store. :)
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@dettol7245 : They said that about smoking too. Yet I know senior citizens into their 90's who started smoking when they were around 12 years old, and they are STILL smoking to this day. No lung cancer or death looming over their head whatsoever. How do you explain it?
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Dettol: Depends how much you eat. The problem with McDonalds isn't the food itself but the fact that the people who get sick or obese eat so goddamned much at McDonalds every time. It's Supersize everything... And a Diet Coke. These people have significantly bigger daily calorie intakes than what's normal for a person their age. Still, until we've mapped the human genome and can read predictably what a persons genetic make-up make them predisposed towards, it's impossible to say if a persons lifestyle could've saved their life if they had changed it or not. Because you can't predict most peoples telomer length, nor when it's going to kill them.
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@thrumugnyr : She didn't say that she ate meat once a year. She. Said she ate a particulat DISH of meat once a year.
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@lost1head : Now we do. But humans didn't always had to cook meat to eat it. In fact, we don't even have to do it today. Ever heard of sashimi? It's essentially raw meat, consumed in Japan. It ranges from raw fish to raw horsemeat. What cooking did for humans is reducing the risk of contracting a lethal bacterial infection from consuming meat, as well as making the meat more easy to chew and digest. So on average, less people risked dying because of slightly spoiled meat (the man of the stoneage didn't exactly have freezers or refigerators to keep meat form spoiling) But even to this day, you can eat raw meat. But to do it safely you have to make sure that you eat it fresh off the carcass of a freshly killed animal, because harmful bacteria attracts to exposed meat very quickly.
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