Fascinating article

I just read the most fascinating article in the Sept/Oct AARP, "More Good Years". It cites the statistics from the Greek iland, Ikaria, where researchers from National Geographic and AARP were looking for Blue Zones: places where an extraordinarily high proportion of natives live past 90. One in three Ikarians live past 90. Of that 30% of the population past 90, none has any sign of dementia. Amazing.

The article cites the reasons as: 150 native wild greens grow on Ikaria/some have more than ten times the antioxidants of red wine, drinking wild mint/chamomile and other herbals teas, an indifference toward being rushed/time-restricted, lots of walking, social connectedness, drinking goat's milk, eating a Mediterranean diet, eating Greek honey which is unusually high in anti-inflammatory and other properties, eating good raw olive oil, growing one's own food, having a meaningful religion, baking one's own bread.

I am going to learn more about the greens they eat. Might it be possible to reverse some dementia (the Mediterranean diet has been proven in some research to do so) with diet and lifestyle?!?!