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The drive is a result of my hunger for optimizing performance, health, longevity, critical thinking,

along with a few other obsessions along the way. I've spent the last several years working

with some of the most successful top performing individuals in the world, and this podcast

is my attempt to synthesize what I've learned along the way to help you live a higher quality

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Hi everyone, welcome to this special edition of the Peter Atia Drive. This is a special edition

because it is the longest podcast ever recorded in the history of podcasts. Maybe it was a seven

hour only getting up to p once interview with Dr. Tom Despring, who a number of you will

immediately recognize by name, Tom is one of my most important mentors and is generally the

mentor to the mentors in the field of lipidology. We're breaking this into five parts, so this is

going to be the week of Tom. So today, if you're listening to this in modestly real time,

on Monday, we're releasing part one and there will be a part released each day Monday through

Friday. So this seven hour podcast will be released over the course of a week. I'll call it the

week of Tom and what you're listening to right now is part one. I'm going to use part one to give

the bio and background on Tom and give you just the insights over what is covered in part one or

episode one and then prior to each episode, I will just highlight what's going on there.

Tom Despring is the chief academic officer for true health diagnostics, a laboratory company.

Tom is a fellow of both American College of Physicians and the National Lipid Association. He's

board certified in internal medicine and clinical lipidology. He practiced medicine in

Jersey for just under 40 years and in the last two decades, he's given about 4,000 domestic and

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