Blue Zones
Inspired by the long-lived people of Okinawa, 80Bites redefines this ancient wisdom for a modern world obsessed with more. Instead of “eat healthy,” we say “eat less.” 80 bites a day. That’s your limit.
What are the Blue Zones?
Blue Zones are five regions in the world where people live the longest and healthiest lives. These areas include Okinawa (Japan), Sardinia (Italy), Nicoya (Costa Rica), Ikaria (Greece), and Loma Linda (California). Common traits among residents include plant-based diets, regular physical activity, strong community ties, and a sense of purpose.
DIET & LIFESTYLE
In Blue Zones, meals are simple, seasonal, and naturally portion-controlled. People eat slowly, often in community, and rarely to the point of fullness—following principles like hara hachi bun me. Lifestyle is active by design, with walking, gardening, and social connection woven into daily life.
SCIENCE
Studies of Blue Zone populations show lower rates of heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. Scientific research confirms that moderate eating, stress reduction, and consistent physical activity support longevity by reducing inflammation, balancing hormones, and promoting metabolic health.
80Bites
80Bites applies the Blue Zone principle of eating less to modern life. While the people of Okinawa naturally stop at 80% full, 80Bites provides a structured way to retrain the stomach and hunger signals—helping people live longer, healthier lives through portion awareness and hormone balance.
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Diet
Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs reduce hunger by regulating the hormones that control appetite. This works because these medications help rebalance the body’s signals. People feel hungry all the time because their stomachs are stretched and their hormones hugely disregulated — Ozempic fixes that & quiets the food noise.
It’s Science, Not Magic
Hunger is driven by a complex hormonal system. The key players include cortisol, insulin, leptin, and ghrelin. When cortisol is elevated, it signals the brain that you’re hungry. Leptin is supposed to suppress hunger, while ghrelin stimulates it—but in many people, leptin isn’t working properly, a condition called leptin resistance. Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs rebalance these hormones, helping restore normal appetite signals.
Make Your Own Blue Zone
GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic quiet the constant hunger by working directly on the brain’s appetite centers. But hunger begins in the stomach—when it’s stretched out from overeating, hormonal signals get disrupted. 80Bites addresses this root cause by helping shrink the stomach gradually. When used with Ozempic, it speeds up results, helping people feel full sooner and get off the drug faster.
The Hara Hachi Bun Me Diet
When you're taking these miracle drugs—GLP-1s—the trade names are Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro. Immediately, what happens is your brain is liberated, and as a result, you don't feel this constant hunger. That constant hunger is due to a hormone imbalance.
The hormones that are important start with cortisol. Cortisol is crucial because, when elevated, it tells your brain that you're hungry. Then there's insulin, which is related to blood sugar and plays an important role in modulating it.
Beyond these are two hormones you’re just beginning to hear about: leptin and ghrelin. Leptin suppresses hunger, while ghrelin stimulates it. Fifteen years ago, scientists thought people were obese because they didn’t have leptin. In reality, they had leptin—but it wasn’t functioning properly, which they called leptin resistance. So, for these people, the most important hormone regulating hunger wasn't working.
So, what are these drugs doing? They’re telling your brain you’re not hungry.
Now—how did you get to this point, where your hormones aren’t working and are totally unbalanced? You got here by following diets that told you to “fill up your plate with veggies” and exercise like crazy to “torch calories.” This formula has failed miserably. Even if you stuck with veggies—obviously, you binged on ice cream—you still STRETCHED your stomach, and that made your hormones WACKO.
80Bites has always been stomach-focused. It has never told you what to eat or what not to eat. It never uses meaningless words like “healthy.” HORMONES RULE. FORGET CALORIES. THE STOMACH IS KING. (Not the fat one under your belly button. The real one—where these hormones operate—communicating directly with your brain.)
The problem with the formula of “eat healthy, exercise more” is that it just doesn’t work. The stomach, for everyone, is about the same size. Once you stretch it, the hormones get messed up. And when that happens, you never feel satisfied or full.
So here’s what 80Bites does: You gradually start reducing the quantity of food you eat—not the calories. You were told to make swaps. Instead of a burger, you were told to eat a kale salad… and then you binged because you hate kale.
What 80Bites says is: the stomach only knows quantity. It doesn’t care if you're eating a kale salad or a burger. So eat what you want—for now—until your stomach gets rebooted.
Now, understand this: if you’re taking these drugs, you must do them with 80Bites. That will make them work faster, better, and easier—and it will help you get off the drugs.
The reason pharmaceutical companies keep pushing the old formula is because they want you to stay on these drugs forever. Big Pharma wants you on injections for life.
If you’d done 80Bites instead of Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig or keto or any of the other crazies, you wouldn’t be on these injections. Your stomach would be fine.
Now you need to start paying attention to your stomach. Soon, you won’t be hungry—and that’s important, because whether there are shortages tomorrow or not, the price of food is going to double.
So whether you’re fat or thin, make sure you learn how to eat less. And the only way to learn that is with 80Bites—because no other program dares to tell you:
Close your mouth sooner. Open it less often.