To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and his team study the world’s “blue zones,” communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. In this talk, he’ll share the 9 common diet and lifestyle habits – Power 9® – that keep them spry past age 100. Dan is also working with communities around the world to help them become blue zones with important implications on the local economies, health systems and wellbeing markers.
Following the talk, each location will discuss what actions we can take to make our part of the world healthier and how blue zone thinking supports our practice of true wealth.
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About Dan Buettner
Dan Buettner is an National Geographic Explorer and multiple New York Times Bestselling author. He discovered the five places in the world – dubbed blue zones – 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.
Buettner founded Blue Zones LLC, a company that works in partnership with city governments, hospital systems, and insurance companies to implement insights he gleaned in Blue Zones to help make cities healthier. In one such city, Fort Worth Texas, obesity rates drop by 3%, and the city reported $250 million in projected health care cost savings. To date, over 70 cities have adopted Blue Zones Projects, improving the health of more than 10 million Americans to date.
Most recently, Dan’s Netflix Series, “Live to 100” was nominated for six Emmy Awards and won three of them.
