This is the real secret

Key Points:

• In 2010, Tokyo welfare officials discovered that Sogen Kato, recorded as the city's oldest man at 111, had been dead for over 30 years, yet his pension continued to be collected, prompting a nationwide audit of centenarian records in Japan.
• The audit revealed that over 82% of registered centenarians in Japan were unaccounted for, raising concerns about the reliability of age records and the integrity of longevity data used in scientific research.
• Similar issues were found internationally, such as in Greece where investigations uncovered pension fraud involving centenarians who were only "alive on pension day," and in Italy where a 103-year-old woman was found preserved in a freezer by her family.
• The book "Morbid" by Saul Justin Newman critiques popular longevity research and lifestyle guides like Blue Zones, arguing that inaccurate age data undermines the validity of health advice based on supposed centenarian populations.
• Newman highlights that some longevity-related products and treatments, such as resveratrol from red wine, have been heavily promoted despite lacking conclusive evidence, and he calls for more rigorous scrutiny of aging science and its claims.