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Dan Buettner is the New York Times best-selling author of The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest. Buettner is an internationally recognized explorer who founded Blue Zones—a project that researches the world’s best practices in health, happiness, and longevity and shares that information to help people live longer, better. Buettner’s colossal research effort, funded in part by the National Geographic Expeditions Council and the National Institute on Aging, has taken him from Costa Rica to Italy to Japan and beyond. He has discovered that the way people interact with each other, nourish their bodies, and view their world impacts the quantity and quality of their lives.
In his dynamic presentation he discloses the recipe, blending this unique lifestyle formula with the latest scientific findings to inspire easy, lasting change that will add years to your life.
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Blue Zones: Secrets of a Long Life
Using National Geographic images, Buettner takes the audience through the world’s four Blue Zones, sharing the practices that enable these communities to live longer, healthier lives and to achieve the balance we all seek.
Learn More About Dan
National Geographic Adventure: The Longevity Experiment (June/July 2009)
NPR Interview: The Island Where People Live Longer
NGM: Longevity (November 2005)
USA Today: Town Sets Off on Healthy Path Practicing 4 Keys to Longevity
Listen to Radio Interview With Dan Buettner
Boyd Matson Interviews Dan for NG Weekend Radio Show
Lessons for a longer life from the Blue Zones.
The town of Albert Lea, MN, and its residents have gone through some serious changes in the past year. The town of 18,000 changed a lot, from sidewalks to attitudes, to put to use lessons learned by Dan Buettner as he explored areas of the world he calls “blue zones,” where the people live longer.
To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and team study the world’s “Blue Zones,” communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. At TEDxTC, he shares the 9 common diet and lifestyle habits that keep them spry past age 100.
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