Dan Buettner

Educator, explorer, and public speaker Dan Buettner is a New York Times best-selling author, a National Geographic Fellow and the founder of the Blue Zones, a company focussing on putting world’s best practices in longevity and well-being into people’s lives.

Buettner’s Blue Zones findings were reported in his cover story for National Geographic Magazine in 2005. The issue entitled Secrets of Long Life became the third best-selling issue in the history of the magazine.

In 2008, Buettner released The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest, which became a New York Times Best Seller and secured him appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Dr. Oz Show. The following year, he gave a TED talk on “How to live to be 100+”, a talk which has accrued over two million views.

In 2010, Buettner released another book entitled Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way; a book based heavily on his research to identify the statistically happiest regions on Earth.

Buettner published The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World’s Healthiest People in 2015, which included Okinawa, Japan, Sardinia, Italy, and Costa Rica. This also became a New York Times Best Seller and led to Buettner being interviewed extensively on shows such as Dr. Oz Show, Today Show and even NBC Nightly News.