The Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer: Lessons From the Healthiest Places on Earth
About this product
The creator of National Geographic's popular Blue Zones—now a documentary on Netflix—brings readers a beautifully illustrated and informative guide to the places on Earth where people live the longest—including lessons learned, top longevity foods, and the behaviors to help you live to 100—plus a surprising new blue zone.
National Geographic Explorer and best-selling author Dan Buettner has traveled the globe to uncover the best strategies for longevity, which he found in the blue zones: places around the world where higher percentages of people enjoy remarkably long, full lives.
In The Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer, Buettner returns to Sardinia, Italy; Ikaria, Greece; Okinawa, Japan; Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula; and Loma Linda, California to check in on the super-agers living in the blue zones and interprets the not-so-secret sauce of purpose, faith, community, down-time, natural movement, and plant-based eating that has powered as many as 10 additional years of healthy living in these regions. And Buettner reveals an all-new blue zone—the first man-made blue zone yet explored.
Throughout his two decades of research, Buettner has worked with some of National Geographic's top photographers—including David McLain and Gianluca Cola—to document the healthy habits of the world's longest living communities. In this informative collection, their work punctuates Buettner's lively text, offering a beautiful tour of the blue zones. Read more
Editor's Take
Amazon-style reader opinions and review blogs generally describe The Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer as practical, readable, and motivating, with many noting that Dan Buettner’s advice on plant-forward eating, purpose, movement, and community feels actionable rather than abstract.
Reviewers and blog readers also commonly mention that the book repeats familiar Blue Zones ideas if they have already read earlier Buettner titles, but still offers useful updates and reinforcement of the core longevity message.
On Reddit and similar discussion spaces, the most common sentiment around Blue Zones content is appreciation for the lifestyle takeaways, paired with some skepticism about how universally applicable the examples are outside the featured regions.
For YouTube, real videos found about this specific book/topic included review and interview-style results, so there are two valid video IDs available: 3lEWqbyFwXQ and cw8AZGnWU18.
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Specifications
| Publisher | National Geographic |
| Publication date | August 29, 2023 |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 288 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1426223471 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1426223471 |
| Item Weight | 2.13 pounds |
| Dimensions | 7.4 x 1.14 x 9.45 inches |
| Part of series | The Blue Zones |
| Best Sellers Rank | #15,081 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #49 in Aging & Longevity (Books) #101 in Other Diet Books |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (859) |
