#022 Peter Attia, M.D. on Macronutrient Thresholds for Longevity & Performance, Cancer & More
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Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.
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🗓️ 13 March 2016
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Peter Attia
Peter is the founder of Attia Medical, a medical practice with offices in San Diego and New York City, focusing on the applied science of longevity and optimal performance.
In addition to being a medical doctor, Dr. Attia has done research on the role of regulatory T cells in cancer regression and other immune-based therapies for cancer. Regulatory T cells have also been, in the past, referred to as suppressor T cells because of their role in actually attenuating or reducing the inflammatory response.
Dr. Attia and I share interests in all things related to longevity and healthspan, which includes the role of diet, nutrition, sleep, exercise, and stress. Dr. Attia is a medical doctor and specializes in implementing these strategies in clinical practice. You can learn more about that at his website www.attiamedical.com.
In this episode, we discuss...
- (00:00) Introduction
- (05:39) The difficulty of identifying longevity compounds
- (08:41) The mTOR and IGF-1 growth/longevity pathways
- (19:11) Preventing cell and tissue damage to live longer
- (22:28) Dr. Attia's ideal diet for prolonging lifespan
- (25:45) Measuring gut microbes is challenging
- (35:34) Alzheimer's disease risk is more lifestyle than genetics
- (42:05) Environmental triggers of Alzheimer's disease
- (55:49) What prolonged fasting teaches us about metabolism
- (53:36) Healing brain injury and concussion with metabolism
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back for another episode of the Found My Fitness Podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | It's been a while. |
| 0:05.4 | Did you miss me? |
| 0:06.8 | I know you did. |
| 0:08.2 | Okay, let's get down to business. |
| 0:10.0 | Today's podcast is with Dr. Peter Atia. |
| 0:13.0 | Peter is the founder of a T.A. Medical, a medical practice with offices in both San Diego |
| 0:17.5 | and New York City, focusing on the applied science of longevity and optimal performance. |
| 0:22.6 | You may have first heard about Dr. Atia from his two interviews that have been on the |
| 0:26.0 | Tim Ferris show or from any number of popular presentations that he's given that were |
| 0:30.8 | filmed and put online. |
| 0:32.9 | In addition to being a medical doctor, Dr. Atia has done research on the role regulatory |
| 0:37.4 | T cells play in cancer regression and other immune-based therapies for cancer. |
| 0:42.2 | Radiatory T cells have also been in the past referred to as suppressor T cells because |
| 0:46.6 | of their role in actually attenuating or reducing the inflammatory response. |
| 0:50.6 | Dr. Atia and I share many interests in all things related to longevity and health span, |
| 0:55.3 | which includes the role of diet, nutrition, sleep, exercise, and stress. |
| 0:59.4 | Dr. Atia is a medical doctor and specializes in implementing these strategies in clinical |
| 1:04.0 | practice. |
| 1:05.0 | You can learn more about that at his website, www.atiametical.com. |
| 1:10.8 | That's att.a.m.ed. |
| 1:13.2 | I.C.A.L. attiametical.com. |
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