170: Dan Buettner - The Blue Zones • 4 Foods You Should Always Have On Hand • The Importance Of Naps
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Dan Buettner is a National Geographic Fellow and multiple New York Times bestselling author. He’s discovered the five places in the world – dubbed “Blue Zones” – where people live the longest, and are healthiest. Dan’s TED Talk “How to live to be 100+” has been viewed over 3 million times.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What are the Blue Zones and where are they located?
- How did the name Blue Zones come to be?
- Lower your cortisol and chances of suffering from heart disease by taking a nap
- The four food pillars across the Blue Zones
- The longest lived family had a slice or two of sourdough bread daily as part of lunch
- Consider stopping eating when you're 80 percent full
- 4 foods you should always have on hand and 4 foods you should never have on hand
- People in 4 out of the 5 of the Blue Zones consume wine
- The importance of picking your friends carefully and investing in them
- Volunteering leads to higher levels of life satisfaction
- Changing our perspective on the aging population and retirement
- Setting up an area of your home to downshift
- 45 minutes of TV a day is linked to optimal life satisfaction
- Why you might want to consider the bus over driving to work
- Dan's morning routine
- Finding an exercise you love to do and sticking to it
- Becoming friends with a vegetarian
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Related links:
Dan Buettner - The Blue Zones Solution (book)
Dan Buettner's website - Blue Zones
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Dan Buettner - The Blue Zones (book)
Dan Buettner - Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way (book)
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| 0:00.0 | You see the same pattern no matter where you go breakfast like a king lunch like the prince and dinner like a pauper or no dinner at all as we saw among the |
| 0:10.1 | oakencon Islands. Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 170. |
| 0:17.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman, |
| 0:19.0 | and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. This week our featured guest is Dan Butner, |
| 0:25.6 | he's a National Geographic Fellow in multiple New York Times best-selling author. He's discovered |
| 0:31.0 | the five places in the world dubbed the Blue Zones where people live the longest and the healthiest |
| 0:36.2 | Dan's TED Talk, How to Live to be a 100 plus has been viewed over 3 million times. Wow |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah, it was so amazing having the guy who knows all about the Blue Zones on the show. |
| 0:48.0 | The Blue Zones are something that I've heard about for years, but I never really dug in and found out what they were, so really excited to have all the information here on today's show. |
| 0:57.0 | So what we get into with Dan is what the Blue Zones are and where they are located. |
| 1:02.0 | Where did the name the Blue Zones come from? Four foods |
| 1:05.0 | you should always have on hand and four foods you should never have on hand. The importance |
| 1:09.4 | of picking your friends carefully and investing in them and optimal life satisfaction comes from |
| 1:15.2 | watching 45 minutes of TV daily. |
| 1:18.4 | So much great information with Dan, excited to get into this. |
| 1:21.8 | Here we go with Dan Bewner. |
| 1:24.0 | Hi Dan, how are you? Welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:26.0 | I am delighted. I'm great, thank you very much. |
| 1:29.0 | Dan, great to have you on the show, and we are just going to dive right in. You are the |
| 1:33.7 | Blue Zones guy. Let's start off talking about what are the Blue Zones and |
| 1:37.6 | where are they located. Well we found five parts of the world where people |
| 1:42.0 | live statistically longest. |
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