Live long and prosper
How long do business travellers live in comparison with Sardinian shepherds? Perhaps not a question that pops into your head that often, but an enlightening one nonetheless that National Geographic fellow and author Dan Buettner addressed when speaking about wellness at the International Luxury Travel Market in Cannes in late 2018.
He and his team had spent three years analysing the world’s Blue Zones – regions where people live much longer than average (so he claims). cover story “The secrets of a long life” and was used to describe areas where homo sapiens were outliving their neighbours. According to his research, stressed business people can potentially add up to ten years to their predicted life span if they begin to adopt certain practices.
