Dan Buettner

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

You know, people sort of churn the same research.

Yeah, you should be social.

Or yeah, you should have a sense of purpose.

Or yeah, you should shed stress.

That's why I come back to the core premise of Blue Zones.

Don't try to change your behavior.

Don't say, okay, I'm going to be more social now.

Change your environment.

The best example, imagine somebody living in a cul-de-sac in a suburb of London or a suburb of the United States here, where every time you want to see somebody new, you got to get in your car and drive to a shopping mall and everybody's on their phone looking down, as opposed to...

a small town where you have a walkable downtown you move to a place like that and you walk to the place to get the coffee every morning every morning you bump into half a dozen people you say hi to and eventually one of those people he's

Get into a conversation.

And pretty soon they become a friend.

People who live in blue zones, well, first of all, they tend to live in extended families.

It's a big, important idea.

So right there they have that sort of social network baked in.

And number two, they tend to live in places where they're nudged.

And to bumping into each other, to talking to each other, to needing each other.

And so much of our health is a function of our environment and that's social is right up at the top of that list.

Well, we have the suburbanization here in the United States where cities are sprawling.

And that's an environmental direction that's going to breed loneliness.

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