Dan Buettner

Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.

— Dan Buettner

The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with…

— Dan Buettner

It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.

— Dan Buettner

Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.

— Dan Buettner

So setting up automatic savings plans, and buying insurance as opposed to buying a new thing. The newness effect of a new…

— Dan Buettner

Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more…

— Dan Buettner

I think we live in a culture that relentlessly pursues comfort. Ease is related to disease. We shouldn't always be fleeing hardship.…

— Dan Buettner

Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

— Dan Buettner

The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.

— Dan Buettner

So learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or…

— Dan Buettner

Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.

— Dan Buettner

Life expectancy in America is about 79, we should be able to live to 92. Somewhere along the line, we're leaving 13…

— Dan Buettner

The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language…

— Dan Buettner

Drink without getting drunk Love without suffering jealousy Eat without overindulging Never argue And once in a while, with great discretion, misbehave

— Dan Buettner

Singapore is the happiest place in Asia

— Dan Buettner

You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields…

— Dan Buettner

Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.

— Dan Buettner

If you’re eating vegetables you are probably pushing unhealthier food out of your diet.

— Dan Buettner

A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.

— Dan Buettner

You have to know why you get up every morning.

— Dan Buettner

The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has…

— Dan Buettner

Actually, when you get into your sixties and above, you want to think about exercise differently. It's not just about you know…

— Dan Buettner

Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.

— Dan Buettner

“In places where women have achieved gender equality, for instance, men tend to be happier than women. And in places where women…

— Dan Buettner

People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity.

— Dan Buettner