Dan Buettner

speaker

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.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 2.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

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

Why?

Because it's full of rich white people who are healthy enough to move down here and have great healthcare coverage.

But to do it right, you have to look at centenarian concentration over time.

And he meticulously did this.

And villages that had a certain threshold, in other words, it was about one standard deviation higher than you would expect to see in the developed world, he put a little blue dot near that village.

And there were a cluster of villages in the highlands of Sardinia with so many blue dots, he just started referring to it as the blue zone.

And when I was on my worldwide National Geographic project, I met him and we became friends and I evolved his Blue Zone concept to an international one.

So now what a Blue Zone means, it's a statistically verified area where people live measurably longer as compared to the rest of the world.

I just took two of the top demographers, two top population scientists in the world to our Blue Zones.

And Blue Zones was always, I think, by scientists, you know, they never discredited us, but they didn't quite understand it.

And we showed them the records.

in Sardinia, going back to 1860, every birth and every death.

And they go, oh my God, this is a gold mine.

We don't have this any place in the world.

So now all of a sudden it's drawn all these scientists to the blue zones who are doing academic papers.

There's three academic papers coming out.

One in the gerontologist in December, you know, this is really kind of blowing up as a, as a source for insight on how to eat and how to live.

As you point out, it's like a Venn diagram, and each of these places have things that may explain their longevity unique to them.

For example, Okinawa, until about 1980, about 70% of all the calories they consumed came from one food, purple sweet potatoes.

And we don't know if purple sweet potatoes are longevity food, but we do know they ate a lot of it and they lived a long time.

Showing 521–540 of 1,467 · page 27 of 74