Dan Buettner

He throws a lasso.

He's a good dancer.

He's got this wonderful extended family.

And we thought that he might be lying about his age.

So in Costa Rica, everybody gets issued a ID card with a sequential number.

So if I was born yesterday from you, for example, a day earlier than you, my number would be lower than your number.

And somebody born a day after you would have a higher number.

So it's almost impossible for people to lie about their age.

So we first took his ID number and went to the National Archives and we found that indeed he is 100.

And here's a guy who magically somehow now he's 101.

He's still living the life of a 50 year old.

And we spent a day or two with him and watch his life.

And turns out he likes the ladies.

So instead of taking his horse directly to his pastures, he always goes out of his way because this pretty girl, who's about 30, is on her porch every day at a certain time.

And he goes by and he waves at her.

So I just love this idea that a 101-year-old guy has still got the romance in him, still got the fire, so to speak.

That's the idea of power nine.

They're the common denominator.

So everywhere you go in the world, you see these same characteristics, whether it's Okinawa, Japan, the longest of women, the longest of men in Sardinia.

the island of Ikaria, Greece, where there's almost no dementia, Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, where people have the best chance of reaching a healthy age of 95, or Loma Linda, California, where we find the longest-lived Americans, the Seventh-day Adventists.