Exploring The Blue Zones:
In-Depth Experience Life Articles Sourcing Dan Buettner
The Blue Zones are five places around the globe that explorer Dan Buettner and fellow researchers have identified as having the highest populations of longest-living individuals. Delve into insightful articles featuring their work and research in the articles below — including Buettner’s 2006 cover feature in Experience Life.
Articles and Podcasts
The Blue Zones Habits for Longevity
Buettner joins us to talk about the Blue Zones — places around the globe with the highest populations of longest-living individuals — and the Power 9 healthy-lifestyle habits they have in common, plus ways we can begin to incorporate these behaviors in our own lives for increased longevity and vitality.
Blue Zones Founder Dan Buettner Shares 5 Tips for Longevity
Looking for the secrets to a longer and happier life? Read this.
How to Be Happy
New York Times best-selling author Dan Buettner’s new book offers lessons from experts and the world’s happiest people for boosting the well-being of communities and the people who live in them.
Fitness Around the World
Martial arts in Brazil, stone lifting in Iceland, mace swinging in India. Infuse your active endeavors with renewed energy, courtesy of the inspired movement habits of other cultures.
Four Happy Places
For as little as these locations have in common, they share one delightful trait: Their residents rate among the happiest in the world. Find out what they know, and what they can teach the rest of us, about living well.
Looking to Eat a Mediterranean Diet? Here Are 6 Staple Foods.
Learn why these six foods are so good for your health — and how to incorporate them into your diet.
Ageless Vitality
With age comes wisdom. And if you make wise choices, it can also come with robust health and fitness, great energy, and a generous dose of satisfaction. Discover the variables that play the biggest role in determining your vitality for a lifetime — and why it pays to start focusing on them now .
What We Can Learn From the Four Happiest Places on Earth
Taking cues from the world’s happiest places and people, you might find a simple shift in your attitude could make all the difference in unlocking your own true bliss.
Do Pedestrian- and Bike-Friendly Policies Boost a City’s Overall Health?
Yes, according to a recent analysis from Blue Zones.
Designing Happiness
Best-selling author Dan Buettner shares insights from the world’s happiest people that can boost the well-being of communities and their citizens.
How to Stay Healthy During a Recession
Tough economic times can actually foster healthier lives.
Why Trust Matters — and How to Build More of It
Trust is a strong indicator of personal, professional, and national happiness. Here’s how to develop more of it.
Living with Purpose and Intention
Instead of discipline and perfection, let’s live with more purpose and intention.
10 Tips to Develop a Big-Picture View of Health
Worrying excessively about our well-being can do us more harm than good. Here’s how to keep your health concerns in perspective.
See the Big Picture: 5 Fundamentals of a Healthy Life
Discover what you can start doing now to prepare for your healthiest, most vibrant future.
Brown Rice Pudding With Nuts and Cardamom
This vegan rice pudding, from Dan Buettner’s new cookbook, The Blue Zones American Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100, uses plant-based milk in place of dairy.
Fresh Fava Beans With Mint and Scallions
Fava beans are central to the Sardinian diet — one of the world’s five Blue Zone regions. Try this simple dish from “The Blue Zones Kitchen” for protein, fiber, and deliciousness. It also tastes great with chickpeas for a tasty variation.
The Rise in Group Health Programs
Discover the surprising power of group medical programs.
Reclaim Your Vitality!
Has modern life depleted your vitality? Here’s how to reclaim it.
10 Essentials of Aging Well
Functional-medicine pioneer Frank Lipman, MD, offers simple strategies to improve how we age.
50 Ways to Make the Most of Summer
Remember when summer used to be fun? Here’s how to discover the joys of the season all over again.
On the Cover in 2006
Forever Young: Dan Buettner
Extreme adventurer and educator Dan Buettner has broken world records, cycled the globe and sought answers to some of humankind’s greatest mysteries. Now he sets his sights on a new frontier: unearthing the secrets of healthy longevity.