Dan Buettner is a grifter plain and simple. He’s now selling frozen “blue zone” microwave meals at Costco. Basically TV dinners, healthy choice style a la 1990s technically low cal, high preservative garbage. He’s completely full of 💩
Dan, I hadn't heard about the microwave meals. That seems very un-blue zoney. I respect Dan Buettner as an explorer — his tip of Alaska to Tierra del Fuego bicycling adventure required a lot of grit and fortitude — and he certainly took full advantage of a really interesting research phenomena. I just wish the blue zones LLC brand had developed a little more thoughtfully and with less of a laser focus on squeezing every last nickel out of it.
Admittedly your experience with and knowledge of him is far more in depth than mine. But my spidey sense goes off when I hear him on podcasts and see him hawking stuff on IG and gaslighting people who question whether his Tv dinners are, in fact, in furtherance of BZ “principles” (such as they are)
Dan Buettner is a grifter plain and simple. He’s now selling frozen “blue zone” microwave meals at Costco. Basically TV dinners, healthy choice style a la 1990s technically low cal, high preservative garbage. He’s completely full of 💩
Dan, I hadn't heard about the microwave meals. That seems very un-blue zoney. I respect Dan Buettner as an explorer — his tip of Alaska to Tierra del Fuego bicycling adventure required a lot of grit and fortitude — and he certainly took full advantage of a really interesting research phenomena. I just wish the blue zones LLC brand had developed a little more thoughtfully and with less of a laser focus on squeezing every last nickel out of it.
Admittedly your experience with and knowledge of him is far more in depth than mine. But my spidey sense goes off when I hear him on podcasts and see him hawking stuff on IG and gaslighting people who question whether his Tv dinners are, in fact, in furtherance of BZ “principles” (such as they are)
Sheesh. Didn't know about the hawking on Instagram, either. I keep thinking, "Dude, you've written 11 books on it… Enough already!"