Dan Buettner

Most people who are in my field will try to tell you to change your habit or change your behavior.

Get on this diet, these supplements, this exercise program, and all of that fails.

The cornerstone of every longevity diet in the world is beans.

And if you're eating a cup of beans a day, it's worth about four extra years of life expectancy.

If you want to really know how to live longer, first thing is

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I feel like I'm going to sound better here than I have ever sounded in my life.

Professionally, it's to reverse engineer longevity.

So if you want to really know how to live longer, better, find populations who've actually achieved it.

Instead of going with an Instagram influencer or some South Beach doctor, why not find places where people are making it into their 90s and 100s without obesity, diabetes, or cardiovascular disease and see what they've done.

And that's my work.

First, I set three world records for biking across five continents and realized that expeditions of the future.

I work with National Geographic.

I'm a National Geographic fellow and explorer.

The expeditions of the future have to add to the body of knowledge.

not just go to the top of Everest for the 3,000th time.

So for these quests, the idea was to harness the intuitive power of a huge online audience, many of whom were kids.

We had a team of professional archaeologists and media people, about 14 people, laptop computers, which were new at the time, and satellite dishes that enabled us to receive a daily vote from our audience.

We had over a million people

That vote would direct our exploration efforts.