Welcome to BlueZones.com!

Thanks for spending a few moments with us. We’ve developed a program to help you feel better, look younger, and avoid 70% of the diseases that will kill you before your time.

It doesn’t’ involve a pill or some goofy supplement; those things don’t work. The only proven way to turn back your biological clock is by changing your lifestyle. But what does that mean?

The Science Behind Blue Zones

For the past five years, I’ve been taking teams of scientists to five pockets around the world where people live the longest, healthiest lives. These are called the Blue Zones.

In Sardinia Italy, for example, we found a Bronze-Age mountain culture that has, proportionally, 20 times as many 100-year-olds as the United States does. Their secret: wine with staggering levels of antioxidants and a tradition of celebrating old age.

Last year, our team discovered a new Blue Zone in Northern Costa Rica where adults have the longest life expectancy in the world. Our scientists found eight factors that make this region one of the longest-lived in the world.

Our work has been funded by National Geographic and the National Institutes on Aging, and our findings have appeared on Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper 360 and the ABC Nightly News.

How it Works

In my book, The Blue Zone, I reveal the secrets of the Power9: the nine common denominators that all of the world’s longevity all-stars share. Here at BlueZones.com, we've organized these behaviors into four main categories:

Move Naturally – Make your home, community and workplace present you with natural ways to move. Focus on activities you love, like gardening, walking and playing with your family.

Belong to the Right Tribe – Surround yourself with the right people, make the effort to connect or reconnect with your religion and put loved ones first.

Eat Wisely – Instead of groping from fad diet to fad diets, use time-honored strategies for eating 20% less at meals. Avoid meat and processed food and drink a couple of glasses of wine daily.

Right Outlook – Know and be able to articulate your sense of purpose, and ensure your day is punctuated with periods of calm.

This may all sound too simple, but the payoff is huge. The average American could live up to 14 more good years by putting these habits to work.

Get Started Right Now

To help you model your habits after the Blue Zones centenarians, we’ve created several tools, beginning with Vitality Compass™. This is the most accurate online longevity calculator available; it will tell you how long you’re expected to live, how old your body really is, and how you can improve your odds of living younger, better.

The Vitality Coach™ uses the best behavioral science available to guide you in getting the most good years out of life. Six seconds a day for six weeks can add up to four years to your life expectancy, effectively making you biologically younger.

And each day at BlueZones.com, we offer fresh news and articles, digging up the most interesting research and healthy living tips.

To get started, click on the Vitality Compass tab and begin the journey to a younger you today.

Live Large,

Dan Buettner
Blue Zones Founder