Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

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If trauma dominated the nighttime, our days belonged to patients with vascular disease, GI disease, and especially cancer. The difference was that these patients’“wounds” were caused by slow-growing, long-undetected tumors, and not all of them survived either—not even the wealthy ones, the ones who were on top of the world. Cancer doesn’t care how rich you are. Or who your surgeon is, really. If it wants to find a way to kill you, it will. Ultimately, these slow deaths ended up bothering me even more. Three years ago, top longevity physician Peter Attia, M.D., would die on the stake defending the keto diet. Now, he won’t touch the diet wars with a 30-foot pole.

Of the various ways we can delay the deterioration of brain and body, many of which Attia explores in his book, he says the most potent longevity “drug” is exercise. Alcohol serves no nutritional or health purpose but is a purely hedonistic pleasure that needs to be managed,” says Attia. Woof.

My Centenarian Olympics has 18 events in it. … I want to be able to pull myself out of a pool … where there’s a one-foot gap between the water and the curb. … I want to be able to hop over a three-foot fence. … And you would say, ‘Peter, those seem really easy,’ and you’d be right as a 37-year-old stud, but the point is … most 60-year-olds couldn’t do them.” – Dr. Peter Attia

In real-world terms, he says, that means someone who is breathing poorly while shovelling in their garden, for instance, is putting themselves at increased risk of injury. Peter Attia (born March 19, 1973 [1]) is a Canadian-American [2] [ bettersourceneeded] physician known for his work in longevity medicine. What Makes You So Smart, Peter Attia? Pacific Standard". psmag.com. 25 August 2014 . Retrieved 31 October 2018.Increasing your VO2 max by any amount is going to improve your life,” Attia says, adding that the beauty is that we can always improve it through training. In addition to training at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Dr. Peter also spent two years at the National Institutes of Health as a surgical oncology fellow at the National Cancer Institute , where his research focused on immune-based therapies for melanoma. He has since been mentored by some of the most experienced and innovative lipidologists, endocrinologists, gynecologists, sleep physiologists, and longevity scientists in the United States and Canada. This book outlines at the beginning the difference between strategy and tactics and that you can’t have one without the other. It tells the reader to not go and look for the tactics first and to read the strategy (science) first. The problem with this is not every human being and the way they absorb and learn is the same. Some people need the “why”, others need a specific list of what do do and what not to do and then read about the why, others need a bit of both. So from the beginning I wasn’t too impressed at being told by the author how I was expected to read and absorb this information. Going through the book it was clear there was alot of information and research put into it, but I felt at times the author was more interested in showing off his knowledge and experiences and would go on long rambles when all I wanted to know was “so what? What does that mean I need to do?!!!” He did this well in the sleep chapter with a bullet pointed list; and in the protein chapter which gave specifics about how much protein to eat. However there was a whole chapter about strength training which gave no practical advice as to how to incorporate the science and individual exercises (which were wordy explanations of how to do exercises with no pictures) into your life. I read that chapter still not knowing how often or for how long I should do strength training, and what exercises, reps etc should I do. He just went a lot into detail about how to do certain movements correctly with no pictures so it was difficult to interpret, and then kept saying how important it was to get form correct but then goes on to say we shouldn’t rely on a trainer. All I wanted to know was what routine should I be doing and how often? All the science means nothing if there’s no tactics as he said at the start of the book, but the tactic side was heavily missing. While what Attia sets out is mostly about how individuals can transform their chances of extending wellness and resilience into old age, it inevitably strays into big questions about how systems of healthcare are organised, and the thinking that drives them.