{"id":219232,"date":"2025-08-01T12:15:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/what-are-blue-zones-5-places-on-earth-where-the-healthiest-people-live"},"modified":"2025-08-01T12:15:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:15:47","slug":"what-are-blue-zones-5-places-on-earth-where-the-healthiest-people-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/what-are-blue-zones-5-places-on-earth-where-the-healthiest-people-live","title":{"rendered":"What are \u2018blue zones\u2019? 5 places on Earth where the healthiest people live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-are-blue-zones-5-places-on-earth-where-the-healthiest-people-live.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His findings launched books including, <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/books.disney.com\/book\/the-blue-zones-secrets-for-living-longer\/\" target=\"_blank\" dir=\"ltr\"><i>The Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer: Lessons From the Healthiest Places on Earth<\/i><\/a>, worldwide interest in these hot spots, and even a Netflix series, \u201c<a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81214929\" target=\"_blank\" dir=\"ltr\">Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So where are these \u201cblue zones,\u201d what makes them so healthy, and what can we learn from them even if we don\u2019t live anywhere near one? Here\u2019s everything to know about blue zones.<\/p>\n<p>Buettner\u2019s research has led him to identify five regions he\u2019s dubbed \u201cblue zones.\u201d These are \u201cdemographically confirmed, geographically defined\u201d areas in the world where people are living to 100 at extraordinary rates\u2014 <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/grandforks.bluezonesproject.com\/discover-the-blue-zones\/\" target=\"_blank\" dir=\"ltr\">10 times greater<\/a> than in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His findings launched books including, The Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer: Lessons From the Healthiest Places on Earth, worldwide interest in these hot spots, and even a Netflix series, \u201cLive to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones.\u201d So where are these \u201cblue zones,\u201d what makes them so healthy, and what can we learn from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}