Dan Buettner

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

The needle in the gut and the experimental plasma exchange or the wine with your buddies and the big, beautiful Mediterranean meal?

I know what I'm picking.

It turns out that none of them are consciously adopting a new healthy routine for the morning.

They just live their lives.

Longevity is much better if it ensues than trying to pursue it.

In other words, when we try to change our behavior and our habits, it occasionally works in the short run, but fails for almost all people, almost all the time in the long run.

It's about changing your environment.

That's why I like to talk about

evidence-based ways to shape your surroundings so your unconscious decisions are better.

That's the idea behind Blue Zones.

But we want to talk about morning routines because it's buzzy.

Morning routines of 100-year-olds.

Okay, here we go.

The first big one

Breakfast, it tends to be savory.

They're not having cereal and milk or a smoothie or eggs and bacon like we have in the United States.

It tends to be, you know, olives, a piece of sourdough bread,

and a little tiny piece of feta cheese.

In Sardinia, it's often a minestrone, which is this vegetable soup with beans that gives you about half of the fiber you need for the day, and a piece of sourdough bread.

A coffee accompanies almost every breakfast.

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