Blue Zones Books

Twenty years after finding the blue zones, best-selling author Dan Buettner reveals four new longevity hotspots and the powerful lessons they offer for adding up to 12 more healthy years to your life.

This mouthwatering cookbook features 100 quick and easy one-pot and one-pan plant-based recipes inspired by the blue zones, many made in 30 minutes or less. The #1 New York Times best-selling author and Emmy-winning host of Netflix’s Live to 100 helps busy home cooks boost their longevity with researched-based healthy ingredients.

In The Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer, Buettner revisits Sardinia, Ikaria, Okinawa, Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula, and Loma Linda to check in on the super-agers and reveal the not-so-secret sauce—purpose, faith, community, down-time, natural movement, and plant-based eating—behind up to 10 extra years of healthy living. Plus: an all-new, first-ever man-made blue zone.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Blue Zones Kitchen offers 100 healthy recipes from America’s best plant-forward cuisines.

Get started on the path to a longer, healthier, happier life with this quick start to building your own Blue Zones lifestyle.

Building on decades of research, longevity expert Dan Buettner has gathered 100 recipes inspired by the blue zones, home to the healthiest and happiest communities in the world. Each dish uses ingredients and cooking methods proven to increase longevity, wellness, and mental health.

New York Times best-selling author Dan Buettner reveals the surprising secrets of what makes the world’s happiest places—and shows you how to apply these lessons to your own life.

The Blue Zones Solution lays out a proven plan to maximize your health based on the practices of the world’s healthiest people. For the first time, Buettner reveals how to transform your health using smart eating and lifestyle habits gleaned from new research on the diets, eating habits, and lifestyle practices of the communities he’s identified as blue zones—those places with the world’s longest-lived, and thus healthiest, people.

With the right lifestyle, experts say, chances are that you may live up to a decade longer. What’s the prescription for success? National Geographic Explorer Dan Buettner has traveled the globe to uncover the best strategies for longevity found in the blue zones: places in the world where higher percentages of people enjoy remarkably long, full lives.

What makes us happy? It’s not wealth, youth, beauty, or intelligence, says Dan Buettner. In fact, most of us have the keys within our grasp. Circling the globe to study the world’s happiest populations, Buettner has spotted several common principles that can unlock the doors to true contentment with our lives.