Analysis Of Gene Lottery By Dan Buettner

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“We are on a mission to help people live longer, better.” This is the saying that Dan Buettner bases his reading off. Dan Buettner traveled the world going around to blue zones: places that have shown a higher life expectancy. The people who live in these “blue zones” live long, successful lives. This video was really informative, and some things said by Dan really was eye opening. How long we live is directly proportional to our lifestyle and the rest is just winning the “Gene Lottery”. I didn’t know life expectancy of people of the United States now was 78 years as well. Such as the the residents of Sardinia, Italy and the inhabitants of the islands of Okinawa, Japan all live long, remarkable lives just by doing things like eating more natural

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