1: “Most people tend to go to the doctor when they are sick or think they might be,” Peter Attia writes in his powerful book Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity.
He refers to this approach as Medicine 2.0, which treats disease once it occurs.
Peter practices Medicine 3.0, focusing on preventing or reducing the risk of disease.
“Nearly all my patients first come to see me … continue reading
1: The bad news?
The ten-year survival rate for someone with Stage IV cancer is essentially the same now as it was fifty years ago, Peter Attia writes in his book Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity.
Stage IV or metastatic cancer occurs when the cancer cells break away from the primary tumor and travel to form new tumors in other parts of the body.
And what is … continue reading
1: “Do we tell people it’s okay to smoke until they are 65 and then have them stop?” Peter Attia asks in his terrific book Outlive.
“Should we tell someone to stop smoking only after their ten-year risk of lung cancer reaches a certain threshold?” he asks.
Of course not. Much better to do everything we can to stop people from starting smoking.
“The sooner we cut the head … continue reading
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
1: Dr. Peter Attia met Anahad O’Connor in 2012. Both had traveled to France to receive an award from the French-American Foundation.
“We immediately bonded,” Peter writes in his book Outlive. “I think it was because we were the only two guys on the trip who skipped the pain au chocolat and spent our spare time in the gym.
“Also, he wrote about health and science for the New … continue reading
1: “Scientists have been exploring the medical mysteries of the human heart for almost as long as poets have been probing its metaphorical depths,” Dr. Peter Attia writes in his brilliant book Outlive.
“It is a wondrous organ, a tireless muscle that pumps blood around the body every moment of our lives. . .
“And when it stops, we stop.”
Heart disease remains our deadliest killer.
We can think … continue reading
1: Heart disease remains our deadliest killer.
“It need not be,” Dr. Peter Attia writes in his excellent book Outlive. “With the right strategy, and attention to the correct risk factors at the correct time, it should be possible to eliminate much of the morbidity and mortality that is still associated [with heart disease].”
“Bluntly put,” he writes, “this should be the tenth leading cause of death, not the … continue reading
1: When he was in his mid-thirties, Peter Attia realized he knew how he would die.
It was shortly after becoming a father for the first time when it struck Peter: “All of a sudden, the awareness of my own mortality crashed over my head like a rogue wave, coming out of nowhere on one of my long swims,” he writes in his terrific book Outlive.
Peter was five … continue reading
1: “What do you want to be doing in your later decades?”
“What is your plan for the rest of your life?”
These are the questions Dr. Peter Attia asks his clients to answer in his terrific book Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity.
He wants them to reflect. To sketch out their future.
Most of us have watched our parents or grandparents getting older. Beginning in their … continue reading
