Ep.39: Dan Buettner - Finding Blue Skies During Covid-19
PLANTSTRONG Podcast
Rip Esselstyn
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Dan Buettner is an explorer, National Geographic Fellow, award-winning journalist and producer, and a New York Times bestselling author. He discovered the five places in the world—dubbed Blue Zones—where people live the longest, healthiest lives.
Today, Dan and Rip discuss the Power 9, those nine mutually supporting characteristics that these Blue Zones areas have in common to promote health, happiness, and longevity. They include:
- Move Naturally
- Purpose
- Downshift
- 80% Rule
- Plant Slant
- Wine at 5
- Right Tribe
- Loved Ones First
- Belong
I encourage you to explore ways to adopt and implement as many of these as possible into your own lives - especially now - when the entire planet is on the precipice of change. We can use these uncertain times for our own good - and the good of the world. It starts now and it starts with you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Plant Strong Gang. |
| 0:02.8 | Greetings from Austin, Texas, which I can say has been my home now for almost 38 years. |
| 0:10.4 | I can't even believe it. |
| 0:11.8 | I hope that you're feeling good today, and at least as good as can be expected anyway. |
| 0:17.4 | Thanks for tuning in this week to the Plant Strong podcast. |
| 0:21.0 | Today before we launch in with Dan Butiner, I have a special invitation for each of you. |
| 0:27.1 | As the country slowly begins to emerge from quarantine, now is the time to do all that |
| 0:32.2 | we can to optimize our health and shore up our defenses from the inside out. |
| 0:38.6 | I invite you to join us for our first ever Plant Strong Primer, a live weekend event |
| 0:45.0 | with the whole Esselston family. |
| 0:47.8 | This family learning lab is all online and will take place from Friday, May 15th to Sunday, |
| 0:54.3 | May 17th, 2020. |
| 0:57.3 | So I'd encourage you to gather up your family and join ours for this interactive weekend |
| 1:02.9 | of lectures, make-along cooking demos, and a primer into all things plants. |
| 1:08.9 | It's perfect for beginners and for people needing a reset. |
| 1:14.0 | We know that Whole Food Plant Based Nutrition has the irrefeatable power to help people |
| 1:20.2 | lose weight, drop blood pressure, lower cholesterol, and fight back against type 2 diabetes and |
| 1:27.0 | heart disease. |
| 1:28.2 | We also know that almost 97% of those hospitalized for COVID-19 had one or more of these comorbidities. |
| 1:37.4 | As my father likes to say, these diseases are toothless paper tigers that need never |
| 1:43.8 | exist. |
| 1:44.8 | And if they do exist, they need not progress. |
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