Making it to your 100th birthday is a noble goal — it might net you a shout-out on "Today" or "Good Morning America," for example — but it frightens a fair share of us, too. Americans associate advanced age with physical frailty and an assortment of diseases and impairments presumed to be inevitable. Common thinking tells us that if we do live that long, our quality of life may not make the effort worthwhile.
Journalist, author, and lifelong cyclist Dan Buettner has spent more than 20 years accumulating evidence to the contrary, showcased in Netflix's four-part documentary series "Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones" and his latest book, "The Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer: Lessons From the Healthiest Places on Earth." One goes hand-in-hand with the other but seeing the results may be more effective than simply reading the findings.
