1: Heart disease is a sly, slow-moving, stealth-like killer.

It “unfolds very slowly—not over two or three or even five years, but over many decades,” Dr. Peter Attia writes in his powerful book Outlive.

Yesterday, we explored how teenagers who passed away from other causes were found to have lesions and plaques in their arteries.

“There is a considerable period of time when the disease is not harmful,” Peter … continue reading

1: “What proportion of heart attacks occur in people younger than age sixty-five?” 

That was the question Dr. Allan Sniderman asked Dr. Peter Attia at Dulles Airport in 2014.  

“I guessed high,” Peter writes in his terrific book Outlive. 

“One in four,” he responded.

He was low. Way low. 

“Fully half of all major adverse cardiovascular events in men (and a third of those in women), such as heart … continue reading