Live Like the World's Longest Living People | Dan Buettner of The Blue Zones

The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee

Physicians Committee

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The secret to living a long life isn't having good genes. Discover the keys to living longer and healthier with longevity expert Dan Buettner when he joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room.

Dan delves into the diets of communities known as Blue Zones where people are living longer than anywhere else in the world.

One thing they largely have in common? Eating a predominately plant-based diet.

Could doing the same be your ticket to a long life, too? Dan has laid out the strategies to do just that in his book The Blue Zones Challenge: A 4-Week Plan for a Longer, Better Life.

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Blue Zones Challenge

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Meat Disease Rate Study

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Dan Buettner

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedanbuettner

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Chuck Carroll

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Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ChuckCarrollWLC

Facebook: http://wghtloss.cc/ChuckFacebook

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Physicians Committee

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PCRM.org

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/pcrm

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21-Day Vegan Kickstart App

iOS: https://bit.ly/VegKStrt-iOS

Android: https://bit.ly/VegKStrtAndrd

Web: https://www.pcrm.org/kickstart

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Barnard Medical Center

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202-527-7500

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0:00.0	The important thing to realize about people in blue zones is they don't have any genetic superiority.
0:05.6	Their bodies have the same capacity that our bodies do.
0:08.8	The reason they're living a long time is because they are avoiding the diseases that foreshort in our lives.
0:14.8	Okinawa women there suffer about one-sixth the rate of breast cancer that we do in the United States.
0:19.9	About a fifth the rate of heart disease.
0:22.0	In Ikariya, Greece, they have about one-tenth the rate of dementia we have here.
0:27.4	So it's pretty clear that the path to this longer life is through less disease,
0:33.5	which at the end of the day is what we all want.
0:40.7	Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.
0:45.0	Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll.
0:48.2	Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us in more than 130 countries around the world.
0:54.4	You know there are some fantastic exam rooms listening in Ecuador, Finland, Nepal, and everywhere in between.
1:02.0	And we appreciate you all helping us make the world a healthier place.
1:08.0	This is episode 98 of season 4, number 293 overall.
1:15.6	If you are born in the US, you can expect to live to be about 76 if you are a man and to 81 if you are a woman.
1:24.2	But there are countries in the world where people are living much, much longer.
1:29.8	Take Japan for instance.
1:32.1	Men there are outliving their US counterparts by 5 years and women by 6.
1:38.2	And they're not the only country outliving the US.
1:43.0	In Italy and Australia, the average life expectancy for all adults is 83.
1:49.4	And it's a little longer still in Spain and Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland.
1:55.4	In fact, there are 39 other countries living longer than the United States.
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