Hey, gang. Well, today I am interviewing one of my favorite people, one of my favorite authors in

the health and wellness space. It's Dan Boutner, the creator of the Blue Zones, the author of

multiple Blue Zone books. He has a new documentary series coming out on Netflix, out on Netflix.

Actually, now by the time you watch this, it'll be out called Live to 100.

And I've interviewed Dan before.

And so I'll just give a real brief intro, but basically Dan became interested in studying long-living people.

And he put together a team of anthropologists, historians, dieticians, and geneticists,

and they went around the world and identified the longest living people groups on different

continents.

And those subsequently were called the blue zones, which, I want to ask you, Dan, why the

color blue? So we'll get to that in a second. I've always wondered that. And he published his first

book in 2008 called The Blue Zones. And what I love about Dan, I don't know if you've noticed this,

but in the last, really in the last 12 months, there have been a number of longevity books published.

And the biggest issue I have, it's a big trend right now.

And there's a lot of sort of well-known health and wellness authors and doctors publishing

longevity books.

And what irritates me is most of these books are, they're scientific in nature, but they aren't really

studying the longest living people groups like Dan does. They're more almost like bench studies.

And to me, we want to learn from real people, from real living people. We don't want to speculate based on some models or hypothetical

stuff or new drugs or, you know, dietary fads. Let's actually study what long living people do,

how they live their lives. And so anyway, that brings me to Dan. Dan, thanks for taking the time

to do this interview. Thanks for having me. It's great to sort of meet you in

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