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Elderly hands holding a matcha bowl in a Japanese garden

What Japan's long lives can (and can't) teach u...

Japan has some of the longest life expectancies on earth. Green tea is part of daily life there. Here's what the research really shows.

What Japan's long lives can (and can't) teach u...

Japan has some of the longest life expectancies on earth. Green tea is part of daily life there. Here's what the research really shows.

Two friends sharing matcha at a low table

Ikigai, hara hachi bu and a bowl of tea: habits...

Three ideas from Japanese daily life that are often linked to long, healthy lives, and how to practice them starting tomorrow morning.

Ikigai, hara hachi bu and a bowl of tea: habits...

Three ideas from Japanese daily life that are often linked to long, healthy lives, and how to practice them starting tomorrow morning.

Japanese-style breakfast with a bowl of matcha

The longevity morning: five small habits, one o...

You can't control your genes. You can control your first hour. Five small morning habits linked to healthier, longer lives.

The longevity morning: five small habits, one o...

You can't control your genes. You can control your first hour. Five small morning habits linked to healthier, longer lives.

Morning walk on a forest trail

Move, rest, connect: the unglamorous pillars of...

Forget miracle supplements. The research on living longer keeps pointing to movement, sleep and people. Here's where matcha fits in.

Move, rest, connect: the unglamorous pillars of...

Forget miracle supplements. The research on living longer keeps pointing to movement, sleep and people. Here's where matcha fits in.

Antique Japanese book and scroll beside a bowl of matcha

Drinking tea to nourish life: Eisai's 800-year-...

In 1211 a Zen monk wrote Japan's first book about tea and called it a way to nourish life. What he got right, and what we know now.

Drinking tea to nourish life: Eisai's 800-year-...

In 1211 a Zen monk wrote Japan's first book about tea and called it a way to nourish life. What he got right, and what we know now.