Not counting Juan Ponce Enrile, the average life expectancy of a Filipino is 71 years. So how did a handful of people reach the ripe old age of 100 in Sipaway Island? What makes people there live a third longer than the rest of us? The idea of a ‘Blue Zone’ is relatively new, coined by National Geographic Explorer Dan Buettner after realizing that people who live in certain places live longer than most.

Yan, G. (2024, July 2). Sipaway Island in Negros: Possible Blue Zone. Daily Guardian, pp. 10, 8.