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The Dr. Hyman Show

What the World's Longest-Lived People Eat

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

4.68.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

We all want to know what it takes to live a long, healthy, and happy life. In this mini-episode of the podcast, Dr. Hyman speaks with longevity expert and bestselling author of, “Blue Zones,” Dan Buettner, about the commonalities amongst several geographic regions around the world where high percentages of centenarians are enjoying remarkably long, full lives. Specifically, Dan shares the pillars of all longevity diets in the world and how Americans can apply this information to their own diets..


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 Zones – where people live the longest, healthiest lives. Buettner now works in partnership with municipal governments, large employers, and health insurance companies to implement Blue Zones Projects in communities, workplaces, and universities. Blue Zones Projects are well-being initiatives that apply lessons from the BlueZones to entire communities by focusing on changes to the local environment, public policy, and social networks. The program has dramatically improved the health of more than 5 million Americans to date. Buettner also holds three Guinness World Records in distance cycling.


Listen to Dr. Hyman’s full-length conversation with Dan Buettner https://drmarkhyman.lnk.to/DanBuettner



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0:00.0

Coming up on this week's episode of the Doctors' Pharmacy.

0:02.7

The pillars of all longevity diets in the world, I mentioned before, greens, grains, whole

0:10.3

grains, nuts, beans and tubers.

0:14.5

So no matter where you go, those five things make up the daily diet.

0:18.8

Hi, I'm Kaya Perot, one of the producers of the Doctors' Pharmacy podcast.

0:22.7

In this mini episode, Dr. Hyman sits down with National Geographic Fellow and author of

0:27.0

the Blue Zones Dan Butiner.

0:29.0

His zones as a term, Dan Coin, to designate the geographic regions where high percentages

0:33.8

of centenarians are enjoying remarkably long and full lives.

0:38.0

Let's listen in as Dan shares the commonalities in diet as well as lifestyle among the longest

0:42.6

lived populations in the world.

0:44.6

In 2000, my team came across an interesting fact, the World Health Organization, named

0:51.3

Okinawa as the place in the world with the longest disability-free life expectancy in the

0:57.0

world.

0:58.0

So we want to live a long time, manage to loo most chronic disease and then die fairly

1:03.3

quickly.

1:04.3

We call that the rectangularization of the survival

1:06.4

curve.

1:07.4

You don't die long painful so much.

1:09.9

You live a long time healthy, well and boom your dead.

1:12.8

That's what you want to do.

1:15.0

That was the founding of Blue Zones in 2000.

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