Man given six months survived 45 years after move to 'blue zone'
Man given six months to live in 1976 survived another 45 years after moving to ‘blue zone’ island where people are scientifically proven to live longer
- Stamatis Moraitis lived for 45 years after being told he only had nine months left
- He said his survival post cancer diagnosis was because he lived in a blue zone
- ‘I’m no doctor but I think the wine helped,’ he joked in 2013 interview
A man ‘cheated death’ for nearly 45 years after only being given 9 months after a cancer diagnosis and he said it’s all because he lives in a ‘blue zone’.
Stamatis Moraitis, 98, was told by doctors in 1976 that he only had six to nine months to live after receiving a lung cancer diagnosis.
After years of working and building a family in the US, Mr Moraitis made the decision to come back home to Ikaria because a US funeral would be too expensive.
He decided to return to his native island to ‘start drinking wine and wait for the day’ death came knocking on his door.
Stamatis Moraitis (pictured) was told by doctors in 1976 because of his lung cancer diagnosis but he lived for another 45
Mr Moraitis’ native home, the Greek island of Ikaria, famously coined as the ‘island where people forget to die’, also known as a blue zone
After his return to Ikaria, months passed and Mr Moraitis felt the was getting stronger as time continued to pass.
After passing the nine months marker, he realised he may have more life to live – and he was right.
He lasted 45 years after his cancer diagnosis, at the age of 98, although he contests the was 102, in 2013.
He joked to the BBC: ‘I’m no doctor but I think the wine helped.’
Mr Moraitis said he survived for so long because he only consumed pure foods herbs and wine clean air and a lived a life without stress
The small Greek island of Ikaria is coined as the ‘island where people forget to die’, is also known as a ‘blue zone’, with residents on average living 10 years longer than the rest of Western Europe and Mr Moraitis who cheated death for decades.
A LIST OF OTHER ‘BLUE ZONES’ IN THE WORLD
- The Japanese island of Okinawa
- The Mediterranean island of Sardinia
- Loma Linda in California
- The Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica
Mr Moraitis attributed his decades of survival to only consuming pure foods herbs and wine clean air and a life without stress.
He even refused to drink commercial wine, bringing his own to places that didn’t hold local wine, because he claimed there where ‘too many preservatives’.
The Greek island isn’t the only ‘blue zone’ in the world according to UniLad, other locations where people statistically live longer include.
However, research by the National Library of Medicine shows that a person’s life expectancy is largely down to the way they lead their lives, with only 20% of a person’s genetics contributing to their life expectancy.
Although people who live in ‘blue zones’ are living statistically longer and are less likely to have serious diseases in later life than others in the world, Healthline claims its because they have healthier diets because the food produced in their locality are ones doctors regularly recommend.
The small Greek Island of Ikaria (pictured), 30 miles off the Turkish coast, isn’t the only blue zone in the world with list including the island of Sardinia, Okinawa and others.
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