The Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer: Lessons From the Healthiest Places on Earth

The creator of National Geographic's popular Blue Zonesnow a documentary on Netflixbrings readers a beautifully illustrated and informative guide to the places on Earth where people live the longestincluding lessons learned, top longevity foods, and the behaviors to help you live to 100plus 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 zonethe first man-made blue zone yet explored. Throughout his two decades of research, Buettner has worked with some of National Geographic's top photographersincluding David McLain and Gianluca Colato 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.