Tea is universally accepted as a longevity beverage and we all know its life-long benefits; the list can stretch far and wide when it comes to the advantages of this comforting and power-packed drink.
Aging is inevitable, but today we can be inspired to embrace getting older because old age is no longer a burden but instead a new beginning. While we can’t do anything about our genes, we have the power to take our longevity into our own hands. We know that our life expectancy is 80 percent of our longevity is determined by our lifestyle and environment. National Geographic fellow and New York Times bestselling author Dan Buettner shares five tips for increasing...
The world’s longest study of adult life, an ongoing Harvard research project, confirms what we know from blue zones regions: Relationships are the key to happier and healthier lives. According to Dr. Robert Waldinger, a psychiatrist and director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, people with the best health outcomes were people who “leaned into relationships, with family, with friends, with community.” Educating Mothers In our work studying extraordinary populations around the world, we’ve found that family is the foundation for health and...
To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and team study the world's "Blue Zones," communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. In his talk, he shares the 9 common diet and lifestyle habits that keep them spry past age 100. (Filmed at TEDxTC.) Talk by Dan Buettner.
By Guy Dauncey, author of ten books including Journey to the Future: A Better World Is Possible and The Climate Challenge: 101 Solutions to Global Warming. How can we stay strong during this crisis? With love, careful planning, and care for others – and total lockdown. The end of the tunnel may be a long way off, but if we treat it with the utmost seriousness, keep our social distance, wash our hands regularly, and look out for each other, we can stop...
By Dean Ornish, M.D., clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute. For more than 30 years, Ornish has directed clinical research demonstrating that comprehensive lifestyle changes may begin to reverse even severe coronary heart disease, without drugs or surgery. He also directed the first randomized, controlled trial demonstrating that comprehensive lifestyle changes may stop or reverse the progression of early-stage prostate cancer. To avoid getting sick, most of the focus...
This could nearly be called a stew and features not only familiar vegetables but some exotic tropical ones as well. Hearty and satisfying, this is particularly welcome during cold days—it will warm you clear through. Since this recipe is full of so many different types of vegetables, feel free to substitute with what you can find or what you have on hand. You can use only one or two different types of squash or omit the yuca if you can’t...
Explorer, world record holder, and New York Times bestselling author Dan Buettner has spent the last 20 years researching and identifying the places in the world where people live the longest. Buettner sat down with actor and producer Matthew McConnaughey to talk about what happiness means, how we can set up our environments so that longevity can ensue, and how hungry curiosity and irrational optimism led him to uncover the secrets of the world’s longest-lived.
Some of the most popular wonder foods of today like chia seeds, quinoa, and acai berries were dietary staples of the ancient Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans. These “superfoods” gave ancient indigenous peoples of Central and South America the strength and endurance they needed to survive in their often harsh environments. At Blue Zones, we never isolate just one ingredient or “superfood” as the magic bullet to optimal health and beauty. But we do promote these nutrient-rich foods as part of...
