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.
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Tell me a story.
So even though my Blue Zones work is investigative science reporting, I always embed it in a story.
There's always characters that lead us through the science and deliver us a, wow, really?
And that's the way my speech is put together.
And you want to make sure that you come up with something that you've innovated, not just parodying other people's work,
Ideally, you find your own discovery.
But if you don't have your own discovery, you want to at least put your own spin on it or metabolize it so it becomes whatever the insight is, it's new and adds to the body of knowledge.
The internet and Instagram is full of people who just echo chamber things.
Come up with something new.
Well, there was an obscure scientist in Sardinia who identified that Blue Zone.
With his permission, I evolved the term to take it worldwide.
And now we have five areas where people live the longest, Blue Zones.
There's a whole company around it called Blue Zones, which is actually a trademark.
And I'm responsible for 99% of Blue Zones.
Well, it begins with something called the Danish twin study that established only about 20% of how long we live is our genes.
So one fifth of longevity is genes, but that still leaves four fifths with just something else.
You look at the data at trying to change habits and most people who are in my field will try to tell you to change your habit or change your behavior, get on this diet, this longevity hack.
these supplements this exercise program and all that fails it fails for almost all people almost all the time they're good business plans but they don't deliver longevity when you actually find populations who are living a long time it is not the result of heroic discipline or a sense of individual responsibility these people are simply living their lives
So we know it's not genes.
It's only one fifth genes.
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