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The Outlier Health Podcast

NMA Chats: How to Live the Blue Zones Way with Dan Buettner

The Outlier Health Podcast

Matt Frazier

Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

What does it really take to extend your healthspan? NYT bestselling author Dan Buettner walks us through the diet, exercise, and lifestyle choices of the planet's longest living communities. In today's episode, Matt Tullman asks Dan about a longevity diet, wine and long-term health, the problem with our exercise culture, and more. Plus, a day in the life of Dan Buettner — how he puts his research into action.

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Hope. This is Karina.

0:02.2

Hi, this is Katie from Washington, DC, and you're listening to me at the radio.

0:15.0

Dan butiner, a man who needs no introduction for our audience particularly, but you have

0:20.4

a new book out, The Blue Zones Way. I knew I was going to get that around. The secret's

0:25.8

living longer. You've been sharing these secrets for quite a few decades now. A couple of decades

0:32.0

since when did your first book come out? 2020 something. And now you have a new Netflix. So you're

0:37.5

bridging into a new medium with a Netflix special coming out on August 30th. I am super excited

0:46.8

about that. I'll certainly be tuning in as I know many in the audience will as well.

0:51.6

I'm sure it's really a busy time for you. So thank you so much for spending a little bit

0:55.8

of your time with us this afternoon. I'm delighted. I'm thrilled. And by the way,

1:02.8

it has been 20 years since I wrote the cover story for National Geographic on Blue Zones.

1:07.8

You know the first part was just identifying these areas where people live the longest.

1:12.1

But then in finding out how they do it, it's an ongoing science. So that book you were just

1:18.0

holding a minute ago represents 20 years of research. And most of it is all within the last

1:25.6

five years. It doesn't even appear in previous books. So it is once you identify with scientific

1:32.4

certainty that people are living extraordinarily long lived. It attracts scientists from all over

1:38.0

the world. And I get a front row seat to the to the latest research. And that book really harbours

1:44.3

the latest probably 20 new insights there that I've never published before.

1:49.4

Yeah. And they're getting better. I mean, it's a beautiful book. I mean, I'm so glad that you

1:55.0

guys took the time to really, you know, bring the sights and colors to the reader because I think

2:02.4

just brings the life to the topic. So I'm really excited. I got to read that over the weekend.

2:08.6

And I'm going to try to get a little deeper in this conversation because I know you've been

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