Well, hello, hello, guys, you're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, secrets of a plastic surgeon,

and it's time for a five-minute Friday.

Today we are entering springtime, the season of rejuvenation, rebirth, and I am getting

more and more interested in longevity and things we can do to improve our overall health and wellness.

Also, it's not just about living longer. It's living

better and aging less as we go. We'd all like to live longer, but the question is, how can you

live longer while avoiding disease and feeling good? So when we look at longevity, we look at people

who have long lifespans, centenarians.

These are people who live more than 100 years, and we find blue zones all around the world.

What's a blue zone?

There are five places in the world where people live beyond age 100 more than any other places in the world. The Blue Zone phenomenon was first

discussed by author Dan Boutner in his book Blue Zones. And these are places you might have heard of,

like Okinawa, Japan, Loma Linda, California, and new places that are trying to become blue zones, including in states

like Virginia. There's some scientists and PhDs that are determined to figure out what makes a blue

zone, what makes an area or a population super healthy, and makes many people within the population

live to be 100 and beyond.

So there's a scientist named Samantha Hardin, a PhD, who is at Virginia Tech, and she's

determined to figure out and create the world six blue zone in Virginia.

Very interesting idea. I want to create a blue zone in Pasadena. I think we can do it. We have a very

educated and healthy population, very health-oriented, very community-minded. But what makes a blue zone?

So we want an environment that helps people to flourish. So very often these blue zones have beautiful natural abundance, staggering

beauty, great weather. So people are outdoors constantly. And people have normal stressors of life,

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