Lifestyle medicine expert Michelle Tollefson shares her experiences visiting Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula, a so-called Blue Zone where people are known to live healthier, longer lives. She has seen first-hand the positive effects of the lifestyle habits followed by residents in these zones. Tollefson, who finds commonalities between lifestyle medicine and Blue Zones, looks forward to the introduction of “Blue Zone certification” for clinicians. This will allow physicians to integrate the benefits of Blue Zones into their practice, helping patients adopt sustainable lifestyle changes to prevent, treat, and reverse diseases.
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