Tony Buettner of Blue Zones to speak at March 31 meeting

Buettner is a national spokesperson and senior vice president of business development at Blue Zones, an organization that puts the learnings of the world's longest-lived people to work in people’s lives, families and communities. Buettner is a former expedition member, explorer and brother of National Geographic Fellow Dan Buettner, who researched and discovered these places around the world where factors combine to allow people to live longer and better, known as Blue Zones. As the lead on all Blue Zones community projects, Buettner helps build partnerships between states, communities and employers to bring health and longevity initiatives that have empowered and delivered measurable results in eight states and 30 communities across the country to date. Buettner will discuss the research that serves as the foundation for the Blue Zones methodology and share insight into what factors help to create a Blue Zone community.

 

Tony Buettner's Blue Zones presentation is sure to engage, and provide a window into these longest-lived populations found in the original Blue Zones. His insight into the Blue Zones research, expeditions, and deployment of Blue Zones Projects around the country give him unique knowledge and experience. Buettner's work and leadership in the Blue Zones Project provides valuable insight into population health challenges facing communities today. His day-to-day tasks include development and deployment of evidence-based strategies that measurably improve population health, as well as the oversight of the Blue Zones Projects.

 

To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and his team study the world’s “Blue Zones,” communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. In Tony Buettner's talk, he shares the nine common diet and lifestyle habits that keep them spry past age 100. What should you be doing to live a longer life? Buettner debunks the most common myths and offers a science-backed blueprint for the average American to live another 12 quality years.