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I've spent 13 years studying Blue Zones. These are the five places on earth where people routinely live past 100 — not in nursing homes, but actually healthy, sharp, and active well into their 90s and beyond. Sardinia, Italy. Okinawa, Japan. Ikaria, Greece. Nicoya, Costa Rica. Loma Linda, California. I've visited all five. Multiple trips. Exposed myself to things in these communities that research

I'm a parasitologist. I've spent 13 years studying parasites that live inside the human body. The first thing you learn in my field is that raw fish is one of the most common sources of parasitic infection in humans. Then I traveled to Japan. The country that eats more raw fish than anywhere else on earth. What I found there broke everything I thought I knew. Let me back up. I work in a university

I'm a parasitologist. I've spent 13 years studying parasites that live inside the human body. The first thing you learn in my field is that raw fish is one of the most common sources of parasitic infection in humans. Then I traveled to Japan. The country that eats more raw fish than anywhere else on earth. What I found there broke everything I thought I knew. Let me back up. I work in a university

I'm a parasitologist. I've spent 13 years studying parasites that live inside the human body. The first thing you learn in my field is that raw fish is one of the most common sources of parasitic infection in humans. Then I traveled to Japan. The country that eats more raw fish than anywhere else on earth. What I found there broke everything I thought I knew. Let me back up. I work in a university

I'm a parasitologist. I've spent 13 years studying parasites that live inside the human body. The first thing you learn in my field is that raw fish is one of the most common sources of parasitic infection in humans. Then I traveled to Japan. The country that eats more raw fish than anywhere else on earth. What I found there broke everything I thought I knew. Let me back up. I work in a university

I'm a parasitologist. I've spent 13 years studying parasites that live inside the human body. The first thing you learn in my field is that raw fish is one of the most common sources of parasitic infection in humans. Then I traveled to Japan. The country that eats more raw fish than anywhere else on earth. What I found there broke everything I thought I knew. Let me back up. I work in a university

My gastroenterologist daughter left her practice in Denver, married a cattle rancher in Montana, and moved to a ranch where the nearest pharmacy is an hour away and nobody needs one. My family thought she was throwing away her career. She was saving her father's life. But I'm getting ahead of the story. Way ahead. My daughter Laurie married Cole Mercer on September 21st at the ranch where his fami

The same Bible that tells you not to eat pork also names the cure for parasites eight separate times. Almost no one alive has ever put those two facts side by side. Start with the pork, because everyone knows that one. People who have never opened a Bible in their lives know it. No bacon, no ham, no pork chops. And almost nobody knows what that rule was actually protecting them from. "Do not eat t