Dan BuettnerDan Buettner is the author of “THE BLUE ZONE: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest,” published by National Geographic Books on March 25, 2008. He is also the founder and president of Blue Zones™, an organization that creates lifestyle management tools to help people live longer, better lives. Buettner has set three Guinness World Records in long-distance cycling. Americastrek (1986-87) took a team of four Americans on a 15,500-mile ride from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. On Sovietrek (1990), two Russians, Buettner and his brother biked 12,888 miles around the world. Buettner’s ensuing book, “Sovietrek”, won a Minnesota Book Award. Africatrek, a 12,172-mile ride across Africa, took Buettner and his multiracial team across the Sahara, through equatorial Congo, and to the continent’s southern tip. In conjunction with the expedition, Buettner initiated a program that sent 1,000 bicycles to Africa and an education program that reached over 1 million students. Buettner co-produced an Africatrek segment on National Geographic and an Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary. The “Africatrek Trail” CD-ROM, allowing players to relive the expedition, had sales of more than $2 million. Buettner’s book, “Africatrek,” won the Scientific American’s “Young Reader Award.” As a writer and photographer, Buettner’s work has appeared in National Geographic, LIFE, Sports Illustrated, Outside, Popular Mechanics and Chicago Tribune. He’s been a regular guest on Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper 360 and Fox and Friends. In 1996, Buettner created one of the nation’s premier adventure learning programs. His interactive expeditions—“Quests”-- enabled online explorers to direct a team of experts as they unravel archaeological — and now longevity-related — mysteries. Over this past 11 years these Quests have help solve 13 ancient mysteries. Some 20 million people, including 30,000 classrooms, participated. The Washington Post has called this “the most successful experiment in interactive education to date.” He is currently leading Blues Zones, a project that, in partnership with the National Institute on Aging and the University of Minnesota, is exploring the world’s longest-lived regions to distill a cross-cultural longevity formula for American audiences. Born in 1960, Buettner graduated cum laude from the University of St. Thomas in 1983. He’s most proud of having gotten a speeding ticket, while riding his bicycle near his home in Minneapolis. MOST REQUESTED TOPICS: Secrets of a Long Life World renowned explorer and National Geographic writer, Dan Buettner, and his team of researchers have traveled across the globe to discover Blue Zones -- hotspots of human health and vitality. Along the way he's met people teeming with vigor at age 100 and beyond. These healthiest, longest-lived people have shared their secrets with Dan and he’s passing on those secrets. Dan and his team of top demographers, scientists and physicians have studied the elders’ diet, lifestyle and culture to create a cross-cultural blueprint for living longer that they will share with you. “We know there’s a recipe for longevity and that 75 percent is related to lifestyle,” he says. “And we’re figuring it out.” His presentation incorporates National Geographic images that will take audiences into the world’s four Blue Zones, tell stories and instruct how to get more life from your years and more years from your life. The presentation ends with a simple formula that shares how you could add up to eight good years to your life. Unlocking the Secrets of HappinessDan Buettner is on the verge of his next great discovery: unlocking the secrets to happiness. Dan and his team of researchers have traveled across the globe to discover hotspots of human contentment and will share with you those secrets and how you can apply them to optimize your job and life satisfaction. Dan has researched the largest database in the world that identified the "happiest" region in each of three continents--Asia, Europe and the Americas. Then, on assignment for National Geographic, he traveled to each of these hotspots and interviewed the people and experts to unearth common traits that promote happiness. He’s combined that information, along with his interviews with top experts on well-being, and created a cross-cultural formula for life satisfaction. His presentation incorporates National Geographic photographs and short video clips. It transports audiences to places around the globe where people are living happy and meaningful lives. It offers universal strategies on how to best achieve that life balance we all seek. | ||||||||||
