Dr. Troy Mensen is a family medicine doctor based in the Chicago area. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Northern Iowa and his doctorate at Des Moines University College of ...

If longevity is your goal, the Blue Zone Diet and lifestyle should be your go-to. This eating pattern is the norm in certain parts of the world where it’s common for people to live to over age 100.

Have you heard of the Blue Zones, or Blue Zone foods? In 2004, National Geographic sought to uncover the secrets of longevity and discovered five places around the world where people consistently live ...

For two decades, blue zones — known for having the most people in the world who live to age 100 or older — have held the interest of longevity-seekers. Now, researchers are questioning the idea of ...

Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court instructed the Bulgarian Patent Office to remove the BLUE ZONE and RED ZONE trademarks from the register. The Court accepted arguments that these colour-coded ...

In Western Finland, the longest-lived region thrives without following classic Blue Zone habits, while another community shows promising lifestyle patterns, challenging the idea that there’s only one ...

A person's health and longevity are directly impacted by the food they eat and the nutritional value the food contains. Diets play a pivotal role in governing and improving one's state of physical and ...

Nutrition plays a key role in overall wellness and has been linked to many factors associated with longevity. While there's ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers in Finland have identified a potential Blue Zone in Ostrobothnia, Finland. A Blue Zone is a region recognized as having longer life ...