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Dan Buettner, Geographic National Longevity Researcher, and author ofThe blue areas: the lessons to live longer people who have lived the longest, knows a thing or two to live a longer life. For years, he observed how many oldest people in the world are doing throughout the day, and he knows how these small decisions of small decisions - you would not even notice that if you do not seek them - can deeply add.

Curious to know some of the secret tips he has learned? In the past, he spoke at length many things he watched while studying the "blue zones" of the world (the value regions from around the world where a statistically significant number of inhabitants live much longer than possible of the usual life) - and most recently onThe Podcast Mindbodygreen. We assembled some of his best tips here. And for more ways to live longer, make sure you are aware of theTotally surprising things that affect your life, according to science.

"The longest women in the history of the world lived in Okinawa and I know about the personal experience they sat on the soil" Buettner beforeexplained to good + good. "I spent two days with a 103 year old woman and I saw her going up and down the 30 or 40 times, it's like 30 or 40 squats doing everyday."

Squatting is strongly associated with better musculoskeletal health - a key factor in life and quality of life - and even beating Alzheimer. According toDamian M. BaileyPh.D., professor of physiology and biochemistry of South Wales South Wales University, squatting is the best exercise to keep your brain very well with old age.

As he explained on the radio BBC radio 4 podcast "Just one thing: "" The toing and mounting the high flow to low flow challenges in the inner mucosa of the arteries that provide blood with the brain. We think it's good because it realizes the right chemicals that the brain needs to develop the things it has to grow to become smarter. For more good fitness advice, do not miss theseSecret tips to walk better to start now, say experts.

You can do it even if you use zoom, says Buettner. Simply turn off the camera and go for a walk. "I have a number of phone calls, and I just put my helmet in and I'm going to walk for two hours," he told the podcast of the spirit of the Spirit. And for more reasons to take your work calls on the race, know thatThat's what all these zoom calls do on your body, say psychologists.

"It's simple, but I have a pair of super comfortable walking shoes and keep them at your door," said Buettner at the podcast. "It rides you."

Simply put, walk more, if you go a casual walk around the park, shopping or perform walking intervals on a treadmill at your gym or the local track - is an integral part of your health, your conditioning and, Finally, your longevity. For more things about that, seeWhat works for only 20 minutes made to your body, says science.

"Okay on a calendar and that my friend will push you," he told Mindbodygreen. "If you say," We will walk every two days around the neighborhood "or" we are going to hike on the weekend "You do not have to think about it. You made the promise."

When you made a promise of a friend, it makes the task more difficult to miss your workout. In addition, when you actually work, you can see that you benefit more. For more information, seeThe most effective way to work every day, let's say psychologists.

"I love the pickleball," he told Mindbodygreen about his favorite workout. "I canpickeballFor two hours, and I will not even know that the time spent. And I raised my heart rate, I use a movement amplitude [and] I develop a strong force of the lower body. "For more amazing workouts that masquate as" fun hobby ", see here for Leisure activities that are secretly incredible calorie burners .