Dan Buettner
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1,467 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 18 Jan
Dan Buettner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But mid-90s is attainable by most people listening right now, by the way.
And in Costa Rica, they appear to do it better than any place else in the world.
Great book.
So, you know, I wrote this cover story.
It was the most successful cover story National Geographic has had.
It was one more, I was number two, actually.
And then I spent about five years writing a book and I visited these blue zones probably collectively 40 times.
And I networked with the top scientists who study these places.
So I was in a perfect position to synthesize
all of the explanations or the characteristics that seem to be driving longevity.
And at the very end, you know, I know enough that people want to take away.
They want it summed up, distilled for them.
And the Power 9 was my effort to distill.
And the Power 9 falls in essentially four categories.
First of all, they're getting the equivalent of about...
12,000 steps a day, moving naturally.
Where they live, every time they go to work or a friend's house, it occasions a walk.
They have gardens out back, even to their hundreds, all five blue zones.
They're gardening, which is the great... And their houses aren't full of the mechanical conveniences that do much of our work for us.
They're still doing yard work by hand and...
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