The Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer with Dan Buettner

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Dan Buettner is an explorer, National Geographic Fellow, award-winning journalist and producer, and New York Times bestselling author. He discovered the five places in the world - dubbed blue zones hotspots - where people live the longest, healthiest lives. His articles about these places in The New York Times Magazine and National Geographic are two of the most popular for both publications.
Buettner now works in partnership with municipal governments, large employers, and health insurance companies to implement Blue Zones Projects in communities, workplaces, and universities. Blue Zones Projects are well-being initiatives that apply lessons from the Blue Zones to entire communities by focusing on changes to the local environment, public policy, and social networks. The program has dramatically improved the health of more than 5 million Americans to date.
In his new book The Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer, Buettner returns to Sardinia, Italy; Ikaria, Greece; Okinawa, Japan; Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula; and Loma Linda, California to check in on the super-agers living in the blue zones and interprets the not-so-secret sauce of purpose, faith, community, down-time, natural movement, and plant-based eating that has powered as many as 10 additional years of healthy living in these regions. And Buettner reveals an all-new Blue Zone-the first man-made Blue Zone yet explored.
Buettner also holds three Guinness World Records in distance cycling.
Learn more at danbuettner.com/
To follow Dan on Instagram and answer questions: / danbuettner

[@Joseph1NJ]

I watched the NF special, thought it was good except for one minor thing: It's not all of Sardinia that's a blue zone, just some of the mountain dweller communities, many of whom are pig farmers, and eat a fair amount of pork.

[@kentroskelley1389]

Dan Buettner seems to be a real down to earth guy.

[@nettierose4915]

Mr. Buettner makes an important point when he says that these people are not more virtuous or possessing of stronger will power than those in unhealthy areas, it is their environment and culture and lifestyle that makes the difference.

[@alcogito8287]

He also said that people who follow this lifestyle live to a happy healthy old age anywhere.

[@kimmurray1699]

People in blue zones DO eat meat! Mostly fish but other meats also only sparingly about 5-7 times a month and they have village festivals where roasted meat is served!!

[@78twood]

I just watched this episode and really enjoyed it! I would love to see more blue zones everywhere! I’m so glad this gentleman took the time to study all these cultures. He has such a wealth of knowledge 💜

[@paolaceruti-jo9qs]

My grandma lived 102 years; until her late 90es she used to wake up at 5.30 am to laundry, iron and cook and every evening she had a glass of red wine poured into her soup. She was a myth.

[@terrytari1891]

AJ: You get ALL the good case! Dan Buettner is the PERSON of 2024 with his beautiful book about Blue Zones!!

[@michaellaverty1844]

I just finished watch this on Netflix and I’m so inspired by he people he met. They’re active, mostly a plant based diet and they seem so mentally happy. He knocked it out of the park when he said if you can’t change someone’s mind, change their environment. I retired from a very toxic work place almost 5 years ago and since then I feel renewed. My wife and I have been plant based for almost 15 years but since I retired my diet has improved so much. I would stress eat, stuck behind a computer for hours a day. Having time for myself and working on me. Stay active, be mindful and eat well.

[@amberjohnston586]

It can take time to change your diet and lifestyle, be gentle as your tastes change. I had to due to sudden digestive issues, it was abrupt and harsh. I had to make it my own!!❤

[@sk.n.9302]

I lived in Germany for almost 20 years, lifestyle similar to Singapore. Lots of beauty, walking, bicycles, local & seasonal food, slow eating & pretty much everything is closed on Sundays. Lots of work/life balance, festivals, holidays. But they do still consume a lot of meat.

[@kardste8114]

Perfect! Thank you Dan Buetner!! 👍 Raise the Price on these processed foods that are costing our healthcare industry and lives sooo much! 👍👍🙏

[@maryannjordan317]

I absolutely loved the Live to 100 series! I have listened to several of these KZbin videos with Dan, but here is the deal: not everyone can tolerate a plant-based diet. I have had IBS since birth. I HAVE to eat an acidic diet. The keto diet is the only diet that keeps my syndrome under control.

[@ellen9579]

Fascinating conversation!

[@Joseph1NJ]

When speaking on blue zone conversions in the US, which BTW I find fascinating, I was waiting for them to touch on school lunches. After all, we can't afford to continue to treat middle aged people with lifestyle diseases like diabetes, obesity, and heart disease and start with the next generation.

[@pearlypawbeans]

I never heard of this guy until I started watching his Netflix show a couple days ago. I was blown away by it! So I started Googling to buy his book. I had no idea that his show would dovetail with plant based eating. I’m very familiar with Chef AJ & a big fan! I just found this vid randomly while looking for audio versions of The Blue Zone book. It’s so cool to see them together here. Really inspiring

[@Joseph1NJ]

Chef AJ is a skilled interviewer, I'm impressed. 👏

[@CHEFAJ]

Thank you!

[@terrytari1891]

@@CHEFAJ You deserve it! That's why you get A+ guests!

[@StephenMarkTurner]

Interesting conversation. Thanks AJ and Dan.

[@terriclemens716]

I watched the episodes at home and then played them for a community where I work at a memory care facility. They were completely enthralled and very engaged and interested in more information and how we can create our own blue zone.

[@alcogito8287]

I am 89 and have no diseases. I grow an organic garden, cook from scratch, eat everything, although I avoid sugar and processed foods, maintain a normal weight, am physically active, have lots of family and social connections, and volunteer a lot. I have my own Blue Zone in an American suburb.

[@Adriana-ue6qg]

What a delightful video! That was such a great conversation I’m excited to start watching the show. Thank you so much!

[@CHEFAJ]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@michaelclennan8425]

Health is simple.

[@TheSistachelle]

I binged every episode! LOVED the documentary. Very eye opening. Great information that I will be adapting to my life.😊

[@estherkanlaileng8980]

Bless to be introduced to Blue Zone, Dan Buettner by a good friend

[@estherkanlaileng8980]

Notably impressed by Dan Beutner knowledge sharing in plant base foods❤

[@sk.n.9302]

Wonderful interview, have been a fan of the Blue Zones since 2016. Parents have cattle ranch in central Texas, but I nevertheless went (whole food) vegan.

[@terrytari1891]

Mr Dan Buettner: you are the Person of 2024! You are guest of AJ & CBS TV interview!

[@terrytari1891]

Dan love Adventures & Action!

[@lisengel2498]

I love the story of the Blue zones - maybe because it to me sounds like small paradises on Earth where everybody is deeply connected with life - its like Living in a sea of love to all around you. 🎵❤️🧡💛💚🩵💜🎶

[@kardste8114]

🤣A bus 🚌 tour of the Blue Zones with safari hats and binoculars 🤣 You are hilarious Chef AJ. and Dan was a great guest! Thank you!! 🙏

[@govegan562]

so disappointing to hear that okinawa has adopted the standard american diet...very sad

[@nickmeale1957]

Makes me so upset. Especially because a lot of people here trying to be healthier, and a lot of people over there aren't.

[@amberjohnston586]

They really need to stop calling it the standard American diet, it’s actually the processed food diet. Many cultures have become unhealthy due to this.

[@danielwillover]

They didn't adopt the American diet for eating pork. They've been eating pork their entire lives in Okinawa. These people want you to believe that longevity is eating fruits and vegetables. It's not

[@govegan562]

@@danielwillover it definitely is tho...fruits vegetables, grains

[@BigSlimyBlob]

​@@govegan562 Grains are mostly empty carbs, they'll give you low-duration energy but otherwise they're basically just sugar. Fruits generally don't contain many macronutrients aside from fructose (a high harmful form of sugar) and the availability of their micronutrients is usually very low. Most vegetables are nutritionally bankrupt. No macronutrients, extremely poor micronutrient availability, lots of antinutrients, and usually various toxins or other harmful substances. Spinach, for example, does not provide energy (if anything, it costs more to digest than it would give you), you'll get almost nothing from the micronutrients (you can only get between 1% and 2% of the iron content), it will actually decrease how much micronutrients you get from the rest of your food, it contains oxalates, it often contains heavy metals, and like most other greens it can spread dangerous bacteria. Not that a vegan would ever buy any greens, of course. Paying a farmer to kill animals (mice, rabbits, snails, small birds, deer) slowly and painfully so that they can grow crops that provide virtually no nutrition is just about the least vegan thing you can do.

[@nazokashii]

Cool to hear about the documentary :D thank you

[@peninaweese7849]

Just got my copy. It’s beautiful!!

[@neverendingjourneystilllea5271]

Thanks

[@JeanneGuarnieri-vs7zn]

Dan Beuttner is handsome!

[@jamiecramer5834]

Too funny! I feel as if I live in the kitchen as well, cooking and doing dishes!

[@jennan124]

Love learning about the blue zones

[@julieritchie4180]

Thank you for this! 59:37

[@terrytari1891]

Dan: I didn't know you were on Oprah, ABC, Netflix etc!

[@hestergreen2031]

Oh I need this book.

[@downhomegirl5]

Do a juice fast its so much better ❤

[@kristingoettlicher3503]

As a vegan and SDA, I am interested in this. I didn't know about the first book.

[@kristingoettlicher3503]

@@annemccarron2281 I didn't grow up as either. Chose them in my adulthood.

[@annaloph]

Great documentary film 👏💖🌎🩺

[@goldbug9345]

I wish the blue zone project would come to the eastren shore of Maryland

[@27pugsly]

Music to my ears moderate alcohol 🍷 😊😊

[@traceykaminski7874]

I watched it. So inspiring 🎉❤

[@nickmeale1957]

My grandmother migrated from Italy to Australia in the 1930s. They had a long-lived population in her area, too. She has since changed her diet to include moderate meat and high amounts of olive oil and has been sicker because of it. I just wonder why she doesn't go back to the way she used to eat long ago!

[@jessstone7486]

Interesting...

[@alcogito8287]

Not necessarily because of it.

[@shoshanachavab]

So my mom lived until 102. She did all her gardening and housework and drove her car until about 87. She lived very frugally and ate very sparingly and never needed to go on a diet. The only illnesses she had were osteoporosis and arthritis and Parkinson’s from which she died.

[@couchphotography8861]

Those are serious diseases, probably caused by what sounds like a near starvation diet!

[@BigSlimyBlob]

My grandfather lived longer than that and he rode his bicycle past 100. He did live quite frugally as well. He ate pretty much as much as he wanted (he was a farmer) but he wasn't super hungry because he ate good food. A lot of meat from the farm, a few random veggies as decoration (though he did love garlic). As far as we know he just died in his sleep, no apparent cause. A quiet life of mild but frequent work, lots of time spent outdoors, away from the city, and high-quality unprocessed food. These things count for a lot.

[@cab26]

Ooh Netflix I’m coming ….

[@lhelms2850]

It’s here now as of 09/01/23.

[@papimimi5469]

The Hawthorne Effect is the observational interference in people's behavior vs. HEISENBERG uncertainty principle is the random movement of particles in space. You cannot predict 100% where an electronic is or will be, you only have a relative certainty.

[@KT-kq3tj]

Chef AJ, where can we watch your interview with Ellsworth?

[@terrytari1891]

Dan/AJ: Does Sweden have a BLUE ZONE? Because the Swedish small town of Vittsjö, Sweden, has the most 100-year-olds.

[@phanypieee]

Love this

[@dianaanalla4571]

OMG I just saw you in America says game 👍

[@kardste8114]

Do the outdoor dogs and cats in the Blue Zones live longer and higher quality lives? 😄 I’ve heard that many of our pets get the same chronic-type diseases their human owners get. Some say it’s unnatural for them to live indoors and eat canned food.

[@LuckyStarhun]

That depends on the quality of the canned food. My dog eats dry dog food and he is healthy and has à lot of energy because its à high quality food. It is not comparable to processed foods for humans unless the petfood contains sugar. Pets are not recreational eaters but sugar can make them addicted to food. Otherwise they tend to overeat, no matter what you give them, you have to portion healthy food too otherwise pets Will become obese. It is instinct: satiety does not work the same way in dogs and cats. Wolves are dogs ancestors and they are capable of eating 10 kilos of meat in one sitting. Even if you have à St bernard or à great dane you would not feed them that much at once even if they were capable of eating it. Pets get obese because mostly they have no portion control. Most pet owners admit they do not measure their Pets food. I do not think that it is different in blue zones. Pets should not eat the same food as their owners. You cannot make à cat plantbased. Making a cat plantbased does not fit into à plantbased lifestyle. Its called mistreating and animal abuse. Dogs health can be compromised on a plantbased diet as it is low fat. Dogs are fat burners unlike us humans as we are carb burners. Protein is not à concern, dogs do well with whatever protein theyre not allergic to. But the info should be put it out so I say it loud: dogs do NOT thrive on a low fat diet and can get diabetes if they are fed too much carbs!

[@LuckyStarhun]

Anyway living indoors does not affect pets if they get enough activity. Dogs who do sports like agility tend to age slower and live longer. An agility dog can do competitions at 10 years while the couch potato dogs of the same age have more frequent visite to the vet. But it also depends on the breed too.

[@kardste8114]

I wonder about pets I had in past. I think not having access to Outdoors is not healthy for humans or our furry friends. Think of ALL the benefits of being in sunshine and nature... and for our pets... seems wrong to deprive them of outdoor time. I know that cats who catch and eat occasional mice or birds are very Happy creatures. I wonder if Blue Zone rural “pets” who live more naturally, also live longer.. like their humans?

[@oopssugar]

Those who eat like this time stamp of 725 just call it eating too.... not intermittent fasting we just eat late one meal.

[@Joseph1NJ]

Blue Zne Frozen meals? Ok, the ingredients do look good, and I'm sure they taste good. But the entire concept is antithetical to the way people in the blue zones eat, and Dan knows it. Besides, 7 bucks for only 300 calories, even for a moderately small dinner, you'd need at least two. Your money is better spent buying real whole food, and making your own meal. No one knows where these ingredients come from, how far they've traveled, how they were stored and preserved, etc. Other than that, I very much enjoy and respect his work. I just won't be buying any of these meals.

[@carlo6912]

I need help. My PCP is telling me to start eating meat again because of my high bilirubin and low iron... need help, feeling so confused.

[@rhondamoore4466]

Get another Dr or not one at all! I’ve been plant based since January, just had my bloodwork done, it’s perfect. Everything went back to normal.give up dairy and meat, you’ll look better and feel better

[@mariaespiritu9512]

Yes, look for another doctor. Meat = heart disease and cancer and then he’ll prescribe pills after you get sick from eating meat. Also eat more fresh greens and beets all full of iron.

[@pearlypawbeans]

Also maybe look into getting more fiber from fruits & veg? Also beans

[@BigSlimyBlob]

That is good advice. Plant foods generally have extremely poor bioavailability of nutrients. Spinach, for example, contains a fair amount of iron, but your body isn't adapted to greens and can only get 1% to 2% of the iron content. Meat has lots of heme iron which is far more bioavailable. This is to be expected. For eight months out of the year, for hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors ate literally nothing but meat, and plants only rarely and opportunistically the remaining four months. Meat is the food that our bodies are best adapted to. No wonder that Hong Kong, the place with the highest life expectancy on the planet, also has the highest meat consumption on the planet. If you're suffering mineral deficiencies, definitely try to eat less fiber. Fiber is indigestible, and an antinutrient: it chemically binds with some minerals so that your body cannot absorb those minerals. It also causes many digestion issues. This one hits me on a personal level: I have had multiple severe digestion issues for most of my life, and they all vanished completely when I stopped eating fiber. A 2012 experiment separated people with digestion issues into four groups who were fed different diets (high fiber, moderate fiber, low fiber, no fiber) and the less fiber they ate the fewer problems they had. The group that ate zero fiber literally had zero digestion issues, it made the graph look like it was missing data because that section was completely empty.

[@mariaryan-q7t]

hardly used kitchen

[@alannahri1385]

Amazing all those countries in ur blue zone do not eat meat how did you make that movie u genius? Oh like Ancel Keys who through 13 countries out of his data.

[@aircamflyer]

The people in the blue zones have had this diet their entire lives. I'm wondering, as a senior, what immediate and long-term benefits people, 60 and older will have when changing to a blue zone diet?

[@CHEFAJ]

Please send any questions to: [e-mail]

[@questioneverything1776]

Better life and health than what you have now most likely . Any positive change in lifestyle will be good for your health

[@BigSlimyBlob]

Not their entire lives. Okinawans lost access to their beloved pork for a few years due to the war, and had to eat purple sweet potatoes during that time. But they made massive efforts to import pigs, and now they are back to having pork as their traditional staple. People in Italy and Greece also had periods of poverty during which they had to eat far less meat. Realistically, very few people have been able to maintain the exact same diet for 100+ years.

[@waleskasabustamante6043]

Legendas em português, please!

[@camillachristinenorveganus161]

❤

[@crochetgram]

Is it too late at 66 to make changes and influence my longevity?

[@CHEFAJ]

It's never too late to make positive changes!

[@questioneverything1776]

Disappointing to here you guys discuss fasting and not discuss the damages of Americans fasting when the focus is typically to do it for weight loss only as you’re essentially promoting starving and disordered eating which ends up pushing a lot of ppl into binge eating eventually. Please review the Minnesota Starvation Experiment and how the restriction unfortunately negatively affected many of those men the rest of their lives and some lost their lives. Many of our health issues is because many ppl are not eating out of physical hunger but instead eating out of emotion, boredom, or habit and because food is so abundant especially a lot of the cheap highly palatable unhealthy refined foods

[@BigSlimyBlob]

The Minnesota Starvation Experiment primarily studied long-term caloric restriction, not fasting. Long-term caloric restriction is awful on the human body and, more importantly, the mind. However, the human body reacts very different to full fasting than it does to eating less. I'm not into fasting myself but I tried it for the personal experience (only short ones, no more than 5 days) and it was fine. Had to take some electrolytes on day 2 and 3 to avoid headaches and that's it. But yes, a lot of people have a highly unhealthy relationship with food, in large part because of bad diet and hyperpalatable and addictive foods. For most of my life I suffered from constant unbearable hunger, I would stuff myself to near-vomiting and feel immense anxiety because I was never satiated. For the last six years I have eaten a single meal a day. It fills me to about 20% or 25% of my capacity, so I haven't felt full in years. But I end every meal fully satiated. That's major. I'm never hungry anymore. 20 to 26 hours after my previous meal, I get the sense that it's roughly time to eat. That's it.

[@terrytari1891]

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[@DianeWilkins-j5m]

I just finished watch this on Netflix and I’m so inspired by he people he met. They’re active, mostly a plant based diet and they seem so mentally happy. He knocked it out of the park when he said if you can’t change someone’s mind, change their environment. I retired from a very toxic work place almost 5 years ago and since then I feel renewed. My wife and I have been plant based for almost 15 years but since I retired my diet has improved so much. I would stress eat, stuck behind a computer for hours a day. Having time for myself and working on me. Stay active, be mindful and eat well.