Whether you've seen it pop up on your TikTok For You page or watched the recent Netflix programme, Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones, everyone seems to be curious about blue zone living right now.
No idea what it actually is? Let us explain. Back in 2004, an author named Dan Buettner set out on a mission - to discover the pockets of the world where people lived for the longest. Partnering with National Geographic, the National Institute on Ageing, and two scientists who'd been studying life longevity previously, Michel Poulain and Giovanni Mario Pes, they set out to discover whether people lived for longer in certain areas of the world and further, if specific lifestyle factors were to thank.
