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Buettner, along with family medicine physician and pain management expert Robert Agnello, DO (who has also studied Blue Zones), share unique traits about each region and what we can learn from them.
The AARP/Blue Zones Vitality Project is an initiative aimed at improving well-being that began in January 2009 when the city of Albert Lea, Minnesota, launched the initiative with assistance from the United Health Foundation and led by Dan Buettner, author of "The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest."
A blue zone is a region in the world where people are claimed to have exceptionally long lives beyond the age of 80 due to a lifestyle combining physical activity, low stress, rich social interactions, a local whole foods diet, and low disease incidence.
The key to increasing your longevity is believed to be found in these five regions of the world
Dan Buettner (born June 18, 1960) is an American author, explorer, storyteller, longevity researcher and public speaker. [2] [3] He co-produced the 3 time Emmy Award winning [4] documentary TV mini series Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones (2023) based on his book by the same name and holds three Guinness records for distance cycling.
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In 2000, he introduced the concept of Blue Zone related to population experiencing exceptionally high longevity and identified with Gianni Pes the first Blue Zone in Sardinia. [5] Thereafter he cooperated with Dan Buettner to investigate additional Blue Zones in Okinawa , Costa Rica and Ikaria (Greece).