How To Eat Like Blue Zones In America with Dan Buettner

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

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🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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When we hear the phrase “Blue Zones,” most of us think of the healthy, long-living populations in places like Greece and Costa Rica. And while the large majority of these communities are indeed abroad (there is only one Blue Zone in the US), there are some hidden traditions that cooks around America have passed from generation to generation that we can embrace to create our own Blue Zone at home. It’s interesting to note that at the same time we’re seeing a huge interest in longevity, we’re seeing a drop in life expectancy for the first time in living history over the last few years. The biggest culprit is our processed food supply.

Today on The Doctor’s Farmacy, Dan Buettner and I break down why chronic disease is so rampant in the US, what we can learn from the Blue Zones around the world, and how to bring Blue Zone principles into our own kitchens while embracing American traditions. 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 Zone hotspots, where people live the longest, healthiest lives. His articles about these places in The New York Times Magazine and National Geographic are two of the most popular for both publications.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

Why we are seeing a drop in life expectancy (5:26 / 2:18)
Why, if you’re overweight and unhealthy in America, it’s probably not your fault (7:40 / 5:50)
How Dan discovered the Blue Zones and habits of the world’s longest-lived people (12:09 / 8:48)
Cooking and longevity (20:32 / 16:00)
Cuisine of the Gullah/Geechee people (28:05 / 23:20)
Traditional Native American diets (31:22 / 26:42)
Traditional Latin American cuisine (36:13 / 31:35)
Eating well on a budget (41:07 / 36:22)
Dan’s work to make the healthy choice the easy choice (44:50 / 39:30)
The influence of Asian cuisine in America (50:07 / 45:25)

Get a copy of Dan’s new book The Blue Zones American Kitchen.

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:03.5	If you want to get healthier, don't try to change your behavior because that fails for almost all the people almost all the time.
0:11.0	Shape your ecosystem, shape your environment.
0:16.0	Hey everyone, it's Dr. Hyman.
0:18.0	I'm all about using food first when it comes to nutrition, but there's certain nutrients I recommend everyone supplement with because it's simply impossible to get adequate amounts from your diet alone.
0:27.5	One example is magnesium, which are soils, well they're not too healthy and because there's no organic matter, they can't extract the magnesium from the soil from industrial farming, which is a drag.
0:39.5	And that leads to 50% less of these minerals in our food than there was 50 years ago.
0:45.0	And then of course we're doing things that cause us to lose magnesium like sugar, caffeine, fluoride, even stress, which none of us have, right?
0:54.0	80% of Americans are actually deficient in magnesium and that may mean insufficient, not necessarily true deficiency, but just not enough to for optimal functioning because magnesium is so important.
1:05.0	And it's a huge problem for our health.
1:07.0	Considering the pandemic of stress along with the pandemic of COVID that we're facing, you should all really be conscious about our magnesium intake because it activates the parasympathetic nervous system, which keeps us calmer and more relaxed.
1:20.0	Magnesium is crucial for more than 300 other chemical reactions in the body and impacts everything from metabolism to sleep, to neurologic health, energy, pain, muscle function and lots more.
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2:14.0	I think I never like it as much as I do.
2:16.0	If I've learned one thing during my two decades in functional medicine, it's that we're all unique. No two people are alike, which means we can all benefit from personalized medicine.
2:25.0	But for most of the history of medicine, individualized healthcare just was not possible.
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