Press

Our innovative approach has attracted media attention from across the nation.

New York Times: How to Live Longer Without Really Trying
National Geographic
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Dan Buettner interviewed on Fox's Fox and Friends.
Star Tribune: Centenarians: Living, Learning
US News & World Report: From 4 Long-Lived Cultures 9 Tips for Longevity

ABC's Good Morning America

Living Healthy to 100 - Our research featured in AARP - The Magazine.
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ABC 20/20 Denmark segment

View Blue Zones' happiness research on Denmark on ABC 20/20.

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ABC 20/20 Singapore segment

View Blue Zones' happiness research on Singapore on ABC 20/20.

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CNN Special: Chasing Life

View Blue Zones in Dr. Sanjay Gupta's special report on CNN.

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Anderson Cooper 360

View the Anderson Cooper segment featuring Blue Zones founder Dan Buettner.

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Good Morning America

Dan Buettner speaks on Good Morning America.

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ABC World News Tonight

Dan Buettner speaks with Ned Potter about Blue Zones and the longevity clues that his Quest Network have discovered. >>

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Good Morning America

Dan Buettner speaks with ABC's Charlie Gibson about Blue Zones Quests, his National Geographic article, and Living Longer, Better. >>

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Glamour

Blue Zones provides health secrets from around the world.

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Experience Life

Blue Zone's Vitality Compass is highlighted in this article about how to tap into vitality and health.

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National Geographic

Okinawan centenarian, Seiryu Toguchi, was an inspiration from the Secrets of Living Longer article. His son made sure the story stayed with his father, even at his father's death.

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National Geographic

Dan Buettner's landmark cover story on three of the world's longest-lived places– Sardinia, Okinawa and Loma Linda– discovers what these places have in common, what makes them unique, and what we can all learn from them if we choose. >>

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Experience Life

Extreme adventurer and educator Dan Buettner has broken world records, cycled the globe and sought answers to some of humankind's greatest mysteries. Now he sets his sights on a new frontier: unearthing the secrets of healthy longevity.

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Current Science

Last November, two sixth-grade classes at Frederick Nerge Elementary School in Roselle, IL, were given an assignment on human life spans. Their task was to find out how long people live in various countries around the world. Consulting our Web site, the students learned that people in Japan have the longest life span, surviving an average of eighty-two years. People in the African nation of Ghana have the shortest, the average being just fifty-seven years.

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University of Minnesota School of Public Health Advances

A gift from the Target Corporation is supporting the Blue Zones Quest, a groundbreaking classroom project where students virtually travel the world to uncover the secrets of longevity. Blue Zones is the 12th in a series of award-winning interactive expeditions from explorer Dan Buettner and his team at Quest Network, Inc.

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e-School News

A Junior High School in Minnesota pledged to make healthier lifestyle choices by taking the Blue Zones Challenge in May. The Challenge is a web-based intervention program that encourages students and teachers to make healthier choices based on research and guidance gleaned from regions in the world where people have live the longest.

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LIFE

The Great Rift Valley, which runs from Kenya to Tanzania, confronts the two-wheeled traveler with some of the toughest pedaling conditions on the planet. But the valley also contains wonders: exotic animals, ancient cultures, the remains of humanity's earliest ancestors. A team of seven Americans and one Ugandan rode the rift southward for 886 miles.

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People

At Cyber Village Academy in Saint Paul, seventh and eighth graders debated whether a gas pipeline should be built in the Amazon Rain Forest. Their teacher, Dan Buettner, leads the discussion not at the head of the classroom, but from the Amazon Jungle.

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The Rake

Dan Buettner is best known as a writer and extreme adventurer who rode his bike around the world from east to west and from north to south through the Americas and Africa and Europe and Asia. He has crossed the roadless Sahara desert, numerous jungles, and active war zones. He has contracted dozens of diseases and hosted plenty of parasites. He has written three books, and has had his every move monitored by millions of schoolchildren. But Dan Buettner really got his start in croquet.

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Minnesota Monthly

Hailed as one of "10 Minnesotans Who Are Changing Our World," Minnesota native Dan Buettner is plugged as among the "power brokers whose influence is based not on money, bloodlines or schmoozing, but on ideas." The magazine zeros in on Blue Zones and Dan's longtime commitment to adventure learning.

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Sports Illustrated

For two days, Dan and Steve Buettner have been flanked by dense vegetation as they rode their mountain bikes over a rutted path. On their third day in the heart of the earth's second largest rainforest, they stepped into the late afternoon light of a different world. . .

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Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine

Read a feature on Dan Buettner's Quest to find the true fountain of youth.