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Yoga helps men, women shed stress from their bodies
Longest-living people have routines to downshift from their daily lives
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Flip Your Dog yoga studio owner and instructor Merrie Benham. In the Blue Zone approach to living, the fifth power approach is downshift to reduce stress and how doing so lengthens longevity, such as with yoga. National Geographic fellow Dan Buettner developed these tips from the world’s five “Blue Zones,” or the five places on Earth people live longest.
EDITOR’S NOTE: National Geographic fellow Dan Buettner visited Gainesville in April to share his nine “Blue Zone Power Approaches” to living a longer life. This series is dedicated to those approaches and how they can be implemented in Hall County. The fifth power approach, “Downshift,” states stress leads to chronic inflammation, associated with every major age-related disease.