Dan Buettner

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ZOE Science & Nutrition · 5 daily habits of people who live longer | Dan Buettner · 15 Jan 2026 podcast

So only about 20% of how long we live as a population is dictated by our genes.

80% is something else.

So I reasoned that if I could find confirmed populations where people are living measurably longer and then looked at the common denominators or the correlates, it would point me in a direction of maybe this is a formula for longevity.

So we found five of these so-called blue zones.

The longest-lived men in the world in Sardinia, Italy.

The longest-lived women, Okinawa, Japan.

In the Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica, we have a population with the lowest rate of middle-age mortality.

On the island of Ikaria, Greece, people live eight years longer with virtually no dementia.

And then in the United States, it was among the Seventh-day Adventists living in and around Loma Linda, California.

And so these are places where people are enjoying 10 extra good years, years without disease, which is a goldmine, especially when you hit a certain age.

So my job and my team of scientists has been to tease out

the common denominators, what they eat, what they do, how they live, their environment.

And that's been the basis now of six New York Times bestsellers and a Emmy Award-winning Netflix documentary.

And why are they called Blue Zones?

My colleague Gianni Pesce, a Sardinian, spent his entire life identifying 100-year-olds in Sardinia.

And his methodology was to look at how many people reached age 100

over the past 150 years.

And it's very important to look at the concentration of centenarians over time.

We're in Palm Beach right now.

There's a lot of 100-year-olds.

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