1: Dr Peter Attia had flown to San Francisco to attend the funeral of the mother of one of his good friends from college, Becky.
“Because Becky’s parents lived near Palo Alto, where I went to medical school, they invited me to dinner many times,” he recalls in his terrific book Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity.
“We often ate in their garden, which had been beautifully planned … continue reading
1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share something about myself or what we are working on at PCI.
There have been two distinct eras in medical history, Peter Attia tells us in his powerful book Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity.
The first era, Peter … continue reading
1: Our belief that progress happens gradually over time is all wrong.
Nowhere is this fact more accurate than medicine, Dr. Peter Attia writes in his book Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity.
The notion of continual progress over time from ancient times to today is “a complete fiction,” he writes.
“It seems to me that there have been two distinct eras in medical history.”
The exciting … continue reading
1: September 8, 2009, is a day that Dr. Peter Attia will never forget.
He had just swum to Catalina from Los Angeles, a twenty-one-mile open ocean swim that took him fourteen hours.
“I was standing on a beach on Catalina Island when my wife, Jill, turned to me and said, ‘Peter, I think you should work on being a little less not thin.’
“Less not thin?” he thought to … continue reading
1: Imagine we go to the doctor. We are tested for Type 2 diabetes.
Suppose our hemoglobin A1c test result is 6.5 percent or higher. In that case, we will receive “extensive treatment, including drugs that help the body produce more insulin, drugs that reduce the amount of glucose the body produces, and eventually, the hormone insulin itself, to ram glucose into their highly insulin-resistant tissues,” Peter Attia writes in … continue reading
1: “As a surgical resident at Johns Hopkins, I would learn that death comes at two speeds: fast and slow,” Peter Attia writes in his book Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity.
Peter had chosen Hopkins for his medical residency because of its top-notch reputation for excellence in liver and pancreatic cancer surgery.
But the fact it was located in downtown Baltimore also meant he and his fellow … continue reading
