Natural Longevity: The New Luxury Inspired by the Blue Zones
For most of its history, luxury travel meant exclusivity. It promised access to remarkable places, superb accommodation, and services that most people would never see. Those things still matter, and they always will. But what people want from luxury is shifting. As lifespans grow and more of us worry about holding on to our physical and mental sharpness, time has quietly become the scarcest luxury of all. Adding years to life is one thing. Adding good, useful life to those years is what travelers, and the hospitality industry, are beginning to chase. That makes 2026 a good moment to ask…
The World’s 6th Blue Zones Region – an Engineered Longevity Hotspot
Excerpt adapted from The Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer: Lessons From the Healthiest Places on Earth by Dan Buettner, a beautifully illustrated and informative guide to the places on Earth where people live the longest—including lessons learned, top longevity foods, and the behaviors to help you live to 100—plus a surprising new blue zones longevity hotspot. While famous for its draconian laws governing behavior as trivial as spitting or chewing gum, Singapore ranks among the world’s healthiest, happiest, and longest-lived places on the planet. And it wasn’t always that way. In 1960, the average newborn in Singapore could…
6 Lessons from Singapore, the World’s Newest Blue Zones Region
Excerpt adapted from The Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer: Lessons From the Healthiest Places on Earth by Dan Buettner, a beautifully illustrated and informative guide to the places on Earth where people live the longest—including lessons learned, top longevity foods, and the behaviors to help you live to 100—plus a surprising new blue zones longevity hotspot. Choose a safe neighborhood in a safe city Pick a neighborhood with well-lit streets, free of graffiti. Join a neighborhood watch group and make it a point to know your neighbors at least three doors down on each side of your home….
A Healthier America? We’re Aiming at the Wrong Target
Quick: how is basketball like America’s healthcare system? In basketball, teamwork tends to win games—but a college player who sinks 40 points a game is more likely to get noticed (and drafted) than a player who feeds his teammates the ball. We can’t really blame the ball hog. It’s human nature to focus on the behaviors that reward us. That was the message of Jack Welch’s Chief Learning Officer Steven Kerr in his classic essay, “On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping For B.” And yet, that’s exactly what we’ve been doing for decades with America’s health and…