Secrets for Living Longer Revealed With Dan Buettner of The Blue Zones
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The average American could live about 14 extra years if they optimized their lifestyle.
Longevity expert Dan Buettner is spilling the secrets of what it takes to live those extra years. He’s been studying some of the longest living communities on the planet known as The Blue Zones.
Before the secrets are spilled in his new book, The Blue Zones: Secrets For Living Longer, and Netflix documentary series, Living to 100, he shares some with “The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast. You’ll learn that the diet and lifestyle habits practiced in these communities are perhaps the best medicine of all.
The pair also discuss what has changed in the original five Blue Zones since they were first documented 20 years ago.
Dan also reveals a new sixth Blue Zone!
Dan also shares what we’ve learned from these communities that you can apply to your own life to live a longer, happier, and healthier existence.
Topics Discussed
- Reverse engineering longevity
- The new Blue Zone
- Applying longevity traits to your life
- Supplements and living longer. . . or not
- New insights from 20 years of life expectancy research
- Blue Zones food guidelines
- And more!
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Dan Buettner & The Blue Zones
The Book — Secrets for Living Longer: https://amzn.to/44iaaAe
Website: https://www.bluezones.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danbuettner
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therealdanbuettner
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Who: Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn with Ann, Rip, and Jane. Plus, Dr. Neal Barnard and Chuck Carroll
When: Nov. 7, 2023
Where: National Press Club in Washington, DC
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Facebook: http://wghtloss.cc/ChuckFacebook
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the exam room. |
| 0:03.2 | The average American could live about 14 extra years if they optimize their lifestyle. |
| 0:09.0 | And by the way, that margin is growing. |
| 0:10.7 | Life expectancy has dropped about two and a half years in the last three years. |
| 0:15.7 | And it continues to drop while the rest of the industrialized world grows. |
| 0:20.2 | And the lessons that Blue Zones offer us can help us get most of those years back. |
| 0:26.6 | You know, it's very vogue now to look for a bile hack or some sort of an anti-aging |
| 0:31.3 | no-strom to help us live longer, better lives. |
| 0:34.4 | And none of those have been proven to add even a year of life expectancy. |
| 0:38.5 | Whereas we know that the different characteristics of the Blue Zones, |
| 0:43.6 | the different lessons they offer us individually offer us up to eight years each |
| 0:49.7 | and collectively offer us 14 extra years of life expectancy. |
| 0:53.1 | As manifested by these people are actually getting these years. |
| 1:04.5 | Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 1:08.9 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 1:11.9 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us coast to coast in the US |
| 1:16.3 | and in more than 150 countries. |
| 1:19.1 | Hi to everyone listening in Odessa, Texas. |
| 1:22.5 | San Francisco, California and Nagoya, Japan. |
| 1:27.1 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:31.9 | This is episode 72 of season six, number 468 overall. |
| 1:39.4 | So what would you do with another 14 years of life and good years at that? |
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