But I tried to build a mathematical model to address a problem in the I.C.U. When we start to experience those mental health issues, we die in a sense. Here we fans discuss the cutting edge of longevity science, the latest episodes, and anything we'd like to see/feedback for the future of the podcast. However, theres one disease that underlies all three of these. in mechanical engineering and applied mathematics. And I remember once I was being interviewed and someone asked me: if you could be granted immortality or something, would you take it? His practice also focuses on elements such as diet, sleep, exercise, and, physiological aspects that promote Its the cognitive piece so how well does your brain work as you age? Theres days when I really feel like Im getting left behind and the train is so far ahead and Im never going to catch up. And then probably have N.I.H. But the point is, without making these proactive changes, they mightve lived only until 70. Whats good about nicotine? And by listening to this guy talk about subjects where I have a different point of view, hes sharpening my point of view and sometimes changing my point of view. When I first met you, that was your obsession, nutrition. Matt Hickey is the producer, and Dan Dzula was the engineer of this episode. So I dont know that I really deserve any credit. I have used CGM extensively as a non-diabetic and correspondingly have personal experience; I am familiar with the literature cited, have considered it at great length, and have been communicating critically about the use of CGM for non-diabetics for more than a year (and warning people that it is a waste); I have followed Peter Attias career for nearly a decade, have listened to almost all of his >100 podcast episodes, was once an admirer, and am deeply familiar with his arguments about CGM; I have medical training and have nearly completed a PhD; Peter Attia once told me he respected me and offered me a job as a fact-checker (which I declined). [4] All rights reserved. Peter Attia has dedicated his medical career to investigating the relationship between nutrition, obesity and diabetes. To improve sleep, Peter Attia takes phosphatidylserine, magnesium and a supplement called Doc Parsley's Sleep Remedy (a company in which Attia invested), comprising of vitamin D, niacin, magnesium (150 mg), and a blend of tryptophan, GABA, phosphatidylserine, theanine, 5-HTP and melatonin. To me the more important question, Steve, and the one I spend more time thinking about, is: what do you do next time around? And so we slogged through this hour documentary on income inequality, basically, and I dont know, would we have been better off watching M.S.T. And to me, we want to minimize that gap, right? They get their money from Congress. They have to basically show every year that theres an R.O.I. It quickly raised more than $40 million from big-name donors to facilitate expensive, high-risk studies intended to illuminate the root causes of obesity. Its the cognitive piece so how well does your brain work as you age? I actually find a fasting sleep to be some of the most amazing because Im watching this plummeting temperature, rising heart rate variability, falling heart rate, all of those really valuable things. , I think there [are] basically three ways that we can approach dealing with this: One of these is through psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, and then behavioral therapy, which Im an overwhelming proponent of in particular a type of behavioral therapy called Dialectical Behavioral Therapy or DBT. , My training is very specific, but now it is fundamentally organized around four pillars: Stability, strength, mitochondrial or aerobic efficiency, and anaerobic performance. , Those four main pillars focus on the different areas Dr. Peter wants to maintain good health even into old age. If you learned something today, please share it with us! LEVITT: So you love your children with a depth that is rare and I admire. ATTIA: I think without a step-function change in our technology and our understanding of science, it probably depends on how bad they are to begin with. makes a complete mockery of what sexual harassment is and is not. I lived in Boston. But it needs to be that long nap because thats about the length of time it takes to go through the phases of sleep. from Stanford University and holds a B.Sc. Right? We won. Yeah, some days its just fun to sit there and laugh and goof off. Hes one of the most intelligent, curious, compassionate people Ive ever met. It was about 10 things. 2 teaspoons (10 mL) every evening with dinner, providing 1600mg EPA and 1,000mg DHA. Because there are risks to doing this study. Including a link to relevant content is permitted, but comments should be relevant to the post topic. Marion Nestle notes the Arnold's working relationship with a National Restaurant . Residency didnt seem very merit-based. That was painful to watch. ATTIA: Well, rigidity of thinking is generally a bad thing. It was really an interesting thing to watch. Im afraid that I havent done a great job. In 2014, Attia founded Attia Medical, PC, a medical practice focusing on the applied science of longevity and optimal performance. And then take a little step further, and you reach neurodegenerative disease, of which Alzheimers disease is far and away the most common and also the most rapidly increasing. To listen ad-free, subscribe to Stitcher Premium. Its also the one that seemed the most conflicted. Hes playing the long-game and working hard to maintain the strength and overall good health hell need to continue living an active and fulfilled life even when hes over 100 years old. What did your day look like? I dont know if you remember the first time we met, but we were at dinner and it must have been just after your birthday because you were glowing and you said, Oh my God, I got the best birthday present ever from my wife. And just to jog your memory, shed given you some kind of equipment that allowed you to prick your finger and do blood tests. In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. Science has proven time and again that staring at screens right before bed can drastically reduce our sleep. ATTIA: This is actually something thats really interesting. And thats when I stopped my experiment. From 2012-2015, he . Glucose is such an important molecule for energy that if we were to go more than about a day and a half without eating, we would begin rapidly destroying our muscle mass in an effort to produce enough glucose to satisfy our brain, which would further impair our ability to forage for food. But I still stand by the benefits of nicotine. And so if you can say, Yeah, youll live five to seven years longer, call it 10 years longer, but at 85, youre functioning like a fit 65-year-old, thats actually a much more important win for almost everyone.. All of the music you heard on this show was composed by Luis Guerra. So it might be another totally new way to tap benefit above and beyond the nighttime sleep. He is the Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of the fasting app. My Centenarian Olympics has 18 events in it. But heres the problem: Were living longer, but our quality of life is decreasing. Part of the practice includes nutritional biochemistry, a field that deals with supplements. So thats called starvation ketosis. Thats a relevant detail that Im sure a few peoples eyes just rolled back in their head. He is an ultra-endurance athlete, compulsive self-experimenter, and one of the most fascinating human beings I know. Its the common factor behind all three biggest causes of death Type 2 diabetes. [8][9] And to this day, we still respect each other greatly. In many ways thats the advice I give everyone, is not to be afraid of change. Its complicated because there are lots of reagents that go into that type of testing and we dont control the origin of each of those reagents. I am absolutely in the process of rewriting it, and that is my intention. Additionally, Dr. Peter is an advisor to and/or investor in the following companies: Dr. Peter has an impressive career, but hes an even more impressive person in real life! And you would say, Peter, those seem really easy, and youd be right as a 37-year-old stud, but the point is most 60 year olds couldnt do them. . Slow-Mag is designed to maximize mag's benefits while simultaneously minimizing its side effects. LEVITT: So my wife is very upset that I like white bread. Hes one of the most intelligent, curious, compassionate people Ive ever met. But something inside said, You dont feel right. So I said, Hey, Mike, I got to call it a day, man. And when I went down to cool down by hitting the speed bag, which is that tiny little round bag that basically has no weight or impact just the impact of hitting that hurt my head so much that I was like, I got to stop.. It promises to be one of the most important books you'll ever read." Steven D. Levitt, New York Times bestselling author of Freakonomics "In Outlive, Peter Attia explores the science of not just . Ive been enjoying them very much, If you want to know how to live longer, and how to live better, you should be listening to Peter. And thats important, but just as important is our mental health. LEVITT: So tell me about when you were 14 and you wanted to be a professional boxer. But to accomplish that goal, we have to learn how to prevent chronic diseases. And again fortunately, Olivias my oldest and shes 11. Peter Attia Book Recommendations (38 Books) Peter Attia is a Canadian-American physician known for his medical practice that focuses on the science of longevity. Thank you so much for joining me today! Its great to live until youre 90 or 100 years old, but if you spend the last 20 or 30 years in so much pain or with a neurodegenerative disease like Alzheimers, youre not really enjoying those last few decades. , where his research focused on immune-based therapies for melanoma. And also, what hes going to talk about in this documentary is really complicated. But there was a brutal concussion I had. Its one of the three vetted sleep surveys that really can give us insight into your sleep. I want to be able to hop over a three-foot fence. Youre listening toPeople I (Mostly) Admire with Steve Levitt, and his conversation with physician and scientist Peter Attia. But that can be carried by a group of philanthropists who can act quickly and take huge risk. So what are some things we can do to improve our sleep to keep this from happening? We talk once every six months or four months. Apparently Peter and his buddy Gary Taubes just love themselves some crappy pseudoscience. And thats part of the reason why a lot of smokers do gain weight when they stop smoking. Now that Im concerned with longevity, that type of working out is totally unnecessary. So I embarked on a sleep experiment that went on for maybe three months where I did not sleep more than three hours a night. Now to your question, I did at one point in my life, circa 2011 to 2014, spend three years in uninterrupted nutritional ketosis. But when you consume too much glucose, your body cant use it. When it comes to chronic and life-threatening diseases, Dr. Peter said it comes down to three major things: So the big three are, in order, atherosclerotic disease so thats vascular disease, meaning heart disease and stroke. Dr. Peter Attia is a medical doctor specializing in health, longevity and preventive medicine. He remains unbiased and sticks to what the science indicates while also willing to experiment on himself. ATTIA: Well, I think the benefits of fasting are legion. That way, we can live lives that are both long and healthy! ATTIA: It was hard, actually. And they mightve spent the last 20 of those years in an unbelievable state of misery. I hope you loved this episode as much as I did. So I want to start with a story. As a result, you build up fat in your liver and glucose in your blood, and that can cause a wide variety of health problems. today! Airplane versus subway? So my hours from 11:00 at night until like 5:00 in the morning, in a cold apartment. But you should be in the habit of listening to people talk about stuff that you dont agree with. I think its worth understanding that a little bit. And so for six months, Ive been doing something that was probably a really bad idea as well. So we evolved this way to instead break down fat, which even under the leanest times, you still had days, if not months worth of energy from, because fat is so energy-dense, and we could turn that fat into a molecule called a ketone. is part of the Freakonomics Radio Network, and is produced by, and Stitcher. LEVITT: So, tell me what are your current feelings towards sugar? My Centenarian Olympics has 18 events in it. With over 50 million episodes downloaded, it features topics including exercise, nutritional biochemistry, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimers disease, cancer, mental health, and much more. But I love that about you, that youre willing to change your mind. So I just generally say try not to eat too much before bed. ATTIA: So a big part of our clumsy response to this is that it couldnt be centrally coordinated. Peter Attia: "I Definitely Lost a Lot of IQ Points That Day" He's been an engineer, a surgeon, a management consultant, and even a boxer. ATTIA: I mean, if Im going to be critical, its not what we did in the first moment. Now, in very low doses, which is what you would get if you were eating a piece of fruit, there is no problem in eating fructose. Now, on with the show. [3] Career [ edit] Peter Attia was born on 19 March 1973 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. And its a finding that basically predicts early onset of cardiovascular disease, which shouldnt have been a surprise to me because the list of men in my family who have died of cardiovascular disease is pretty long. What was the failure of either policy or medicine that led nobody to be generating that knowledge? Dr. Peter is the perfect person to talk to about health and longevity, and Im excited to have him on. When we eat, our bodies naturally raise our temperature its just part of the digestion process. So it wasnt one thing, Steve. His practice deals extensively with nutritional interventions, exercise physiology, sleep physiology, emotional and mental health, and pharmacology to increase lifespan (delay the onset of chronic disease) while simultaneously improving healthspan (quality of life). What do you do daily to live a longer and healthier life? Im so grateful to him for taking the time to join me here on The School of Greatness! Aging often comes with significant physical problems that are increasingly tough to deal with. [6] As his residency drew to a close, Attia joined the consulting firm McKinsey & Company in the Palo Alto office as a member of the Corporate Risk Practice and Healthcare Practice. Peter Attia is the host of The Drive podcast and . Hes really it makes me hopeful that I got some of those genes, that I can have a shot at some of that too. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. And youll tell me your latest thing. Pacific Standard", "Blaming the Patient, Then Asking Forgiveness", "Silicon Valley Wants to Cash In on Fasting", "Attia P. TED: Is the Obesity Crisis Hiding a Bigger Problem? And by the way, whatever genes killed everyone before you are coming for you if you dont do something about it. So, again, evolution won. And I was like, You know what? It is the one thing that makes all three of those worse, and, in its most extreme state, its Type 2 diabetes. Im actually going to tuck them underneath my lip like chewing tobacco and let it just ease out and keep me going.. I want to be able to hop over a three-foot fence. Did you get hit a lot in the head? And Im the provocateur who helps de-risk these things. Your podcasts are like a massive gift to humanity. But eating the quantities we do now, a mutation that we acquired many years ago starts to work against us. [1][2] He is also the first person to make the round-trip swim from Maui and Lanai. 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