Promoting the 7 Blue Zone principles of healthy lifestyle
Living Blue Zone is a non-profit organization founded by Professor Michel Poulain, initiator of the concept of Blue Zone. Our approach is inspired by those regions of the world where people live longer, healthier lives in harmony with their environment.
About
What we do
Through our initiatives, events, and collaborations, we promote the 7 Blue Zone Principles and together weave the blue thread of a more vibrant, fairer, and above all, happier society.
Our Mission &Vision
Our mission is to support projects in Europe and around the world that are aligned with the 7 Blue Zone Principles observed by Professor Michel Poulain, in order to put health, relationships with others, and meaning in life back at the heart of our environments, encourage individual and collective choices that rebuild connections, and help individuals, companies, and communities make concrete changes to their lifestyles.
Our community
The Living Blue Zone is a growing community — a living web connecting people and projects inspired by the Blue Zone philosophy.
Together, we weave the blue thread of a healthier and happier world.
Who we are
Founders
Living Blue Zone partners for Latin America
Marcela Ponce
Ximena Hodge
Yean Carla Gandulfo
The Blue Thread
Living Blue Zone | Corporate
Dec 11, 2025
Living Blue Zone announces Julie Saffery as its Representative for the corporate world, supporting organizations in creating more human, meaningful, and living work cultures.
Belgium | Conference at Le MIX, Brussels
A landmark evening at MIX – The birth of Living Blue Zone.
About Pr. Michel Poulain
Demographer, world explorer, initiator of the concept of Blue Zone, and promotor of a healthy lifestyle.
His career, both scientific and deeply human, embodies the alliance between rigor and intuition, curiosity and wisdom. A demographer by training, he has devoted his life to exploring what it means to “age well”, meeting with people who live longer, healthier lives in all corners of the world.
It was through his research on centenarians that he identified the population of Sardinia, Okinawa, Nicoya, Ikaria and more recently Martinique, as a Blue Zone with exceptional longevity.
Longevity Blue Zone
Professor Michel Poulain