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Dan Buettner books: every book Dan Buettner wrote and recommended
Books by Dan Buettner
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The Blue Zones solution
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The Blue Zones of Happiness
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The Blue Zones
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The blue zone
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Thrive
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The Blue Zones American Kitchen
Dan Buettner is an American writer, cookbook author, longevity researcher, and public speaker, best known for his research on the Blue Zones. He co-hosted the Netflix series Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones, holds three distance cycling Guinness records, founded Blue Zones, LLC, and serves as a National Geographic Fellow. Appearing on On Purpose with Jay Shetty, Buettner discussed several of his own works and external books related to health, happiness, and community. He recommended his own hybrid National Geographic article and cookbook, The Blue Zones Kitchen, which features one hundred traditional recipes designed to help people live to one hundred. He also discussed his book The Blue Zones of Happiness, explaining how he applied a reverse-engineering approach to discover the world's happiest places. Additionally, Buettner mentioned his foundational book, The Blue Zones, noting how it serendipitously sparked a major professional partnership after being handed to an insomniac reader. Finally, to illustrate the decline of social connection in America, he cited Robert D. Putnam's influential book Bowling Alone, noting the researcher's findings regarding the average number of friends people maintain.
Books recommended by Dan Buettner
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The Blue Zones Kitchen
The Blue Zones Kitchen by Dan Buettner is a culinary guide and lifestyle handbook that translates the dietary habits of the world's longest-living populations into practical, everyday recipes.
Recommended“And the result Blue Zones Kitchen, which comes out in December, is a hybrid of a National Geographic article and a cookbook. 100 recipes to live to 100. I'm super excited about it.”
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Bowling Alone
Bowling Alone by Robert D.
Discussed“There's this great Harvard researcher named Robert Putnam. He wrote a book called Bowling Alone. When he first wrote it wrote it in the late '80s, he he calculated that the average American has three friends.”
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The Blue Zones
The Blue Zones by Dan Buettner is an engaging wellness book that identifies five specific geographic regions across the globe where people live significantly longer, healthier lives free from many chronic diseases typically associated with aging.
Discussed“And Ben's wife Liz Lledo Ben couldn't sleep one night and she had my book Blue Zones and Ben was complaining he couldn't sleep and and Liz says to Ben here read this it's a good book and Ben reads my book Blue Zones.”
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The Blue Zones of Happiness
Discussed“I also wrote a book called Blue Zones of Happiness and a cover story for National Geographic that took the same approach of finding statistically happiest places and then reverse engineering what they did as to offer lessons for people.”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| The Blue Zones Expert: 70% of Your Health Is Dictated By This ONE Thing | On Purpose with Jay Shetty | 2024-01-01 | 1 |
| How to Design Your Life to Live Longer, Healthier & Happier | On Purpose with Jay Shetty | 2021-08-20 | 3 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“So I'll spin out a couple of the insights that I captured for Blue zones kitchen on how they eat.”