Dan Buettner: Blue Zones Secrets, Actionable Lessons, and Transforming Communities By Changing Local Environments and Social Networks
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Dan Buettner is an explorer, National Geographic Fellow, award-winning journalist and producer, and New York Times bestselling author. He discovered the five places in the world – dubbed blue zones hotspots – where people live the longest, healthiest lives.
Buettner now works in partnership with municipal governments, large employers, and health insurance companies to implement Blue Zones Projects in communities, workplaces, and universities. Blue Zones Projects are well-being initiatives that apply lessons from the Blue Zones to entire communities by focusing on changes to the local environment, public policy, and social networks. The program has dramatically improved the health of more than 5 million Americans to date.
We are obsessed with the Blue Zones and were delighted to dig into Dan's new book, The Blue Zones: Secrets for Living Longer. Simple nutrition, natural movement, and strong social circles play into the increased lifespan for people in these areas, and it's all without a conscious pursuit of health or longevity.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:06.5 | And I'm Juliette Starrett. |
| 0:08.0 | And you're listening to the Ready State Podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | You got it. |
| 0:13.0 | You've got it. |
| 0:15.0 | This episode of the Ready State Podcast is brought to you by our friends at Element. I want to talk about pre-workout strategies. Oftentimes I see adults, self-excluded, |
| 0:28.7 | getting ready to go train, and they basically have had some coffee. They go. |
| 0:34.8 | Right, because, I mean, after you sleep a full night, like you wake up dehydrated already. Let's call hypohydrated, right? Probably having any salts, you know, who knows if you're in the song, whatever's going on. And then if you're like someone named Kelly Starrett, you've had lots of coffee and very little water. You don't know me. But one of the things that is miraculous is that I will chug a very dense cup of element before I go. |
| 0:56.7 | And it's like I just top off my electrodes. |
| 0:58.5 | I preload a little bit and then really try to drink some water. |
| 1:01.5 | But that instead of drinking an entire bottle, I'll make a really dense element. |
| 1:05.6 | And it's salty, but I know that I'm going to go out into that aerobic effort on the bike, going hiking, |
| 1:11.9 | and I'll be feeling different. And the results are in the watts. I mean, I really just can't point |
| 1:17.5 | that out. You think you're working as hard as you can. You're not because you're not salty a half. |
| 1:23.8 | Yeah. And I mean, I will say that I have a proclivity to just drinking coffee and then training, but if I just have a cup of water with some element in it before I train, it really does dramatically change how I feel while I'm training. |
| 1:34.9 | And so it's been a go-to change for us to give up our coffee-only routine. |
| 1:39.8 | I know, it's true. But really, think about preloading some of your training, especially hard days with some salt, and especially something tasty like watermelon salt. And lo and behold, you will shred. |
| 1:50.6 | We literally drink it every day. Right now, if you order through our link, you get a free sample pack with all of Elements' flavors. Go to drinkelement.com slash TRS. |
| 2:01.6 | This episode of the ReadyState podcast is supported by Vitruvian. |
| 2:06.1 | The Vitruvian system lives in our garage, and this is important, you can have heavy, |
| 2:11.8 | heavy loading, all of the equipment you need in a very small package. |
| 2:15.5 | When we're seeing now a lot of high school kids realizing they need to start strength training, parents are a little bit overwhelmed. Which barbell do I get? Do I get this trap bar? Do I need a squat rack? All of those things are removed with a Vitruvian. Yeah, I mean, we've been pretty lucky because we've owned a commercial gym. And so we've had access. Did you just say lucky? Well, we've had access to a lot of free weights and easy equipment. And so it makes sense to us. But I think for a lot of people, building out a whole home gym is overwhelming and really expensive. And one of the amazing things about the Vitruvian is you can get so much work done and actually real heavy loads on a single really easy |
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