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- Stamatis Moraitis moved to Ikaria after a 1976 lung-cancer diagnosis and died there at 102 in 2013.
- Harvard Health reports that Ikaria’s “art of doing nothing” lifestyle—slow pace, plant-based meals, communal gatherings—correlates with up to ten extra years of life and lower dementia, cancer and diabetes rates.
- Dan Buettner named Ikaria a blue zone and featured Moraitis in a Netflix documentary, where he answered “I don’t know” about his survival.
