Hello and welcome to five things. I'm Dana Taylor. Today is Sunday, September 17, 2023.

The quest to live a long and healthy life has been around for thousands of years. Our doctors

tell us the secret is to eat right, exercise, get enough sleep. The nutritional supplement

industry now worth nearly 400 billion dollars globally tells us no, you just need to take

more vitamins. Researchers, meanwhile, have posited that it really just comes down to

good genes. So what's the real secret to longevity? A new series out on Netflix called Live

to 100 Secrets of the Blue Zones aims to cut through the noise and give us an answer. I'm

joined now by series host and author, Dan Butiner, who spent the last 20 years traveling

the world to get to the heart of it. Dan, thanks for joining me. It's a delight to be

here. So Dan, you define blue zones as places where people live to 100 at the highest rates

in the world. And I want to get into the specifics of what you discovered in each area in a

minute here. But can you tell us is there one magic ingredient that you found in common?

Not magic, but maybe the most sort of newsworthy is beans. The cornerstone of every longevity

diet in the world is a cup of beans a day, which is associated with about four acts of

years of life expectancy. But what really gives these blue zones an extra decade or so of

healthy life is this matrix, an interconnected web of mutually supporting things that help

people do the right things and avoid the wrong things for long enough so they don't

develop a life foreshortening chronic disease.

Well, community seems to play a big role here in America. Our town square is used to be

churches that's no longer the case tells what you learn about finding belonging.

Like most behavior in the blue zones, it's environmentally driven and it's unconscious.

So in all the blue zones, still when you step out your front door, you're going to bump

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