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The Peter Attia Drive

#248 ‒ OUTLIVE book: A behind-the-scenes look into the writing of this book, motivation, main themes, and more

The Peter Attia Drive

Peter Attia, MD

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Fitness

4.77.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 102 minutes

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After more than six years of research, planning, and writing, Peter’s book, Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, is officially available as of March 28th. In this episode, Peter sits down with co-author Bill Gifford to provide a behind-the-scenes look into the writing process, including the motivation for making it happen, how the book evolved over the course of the writing process, and why certain topics were chosen (and omitted). Additionally, they discuss how the book is structured and touch on a few of the book’s main themes to give potential readers an idea of what they can expect.

We discuss:

  • The meaning of the book’s title and subtitle [3:00];
  • Finding the right art for the book cover [9:00];
  • Who is Bill Gifford, and how did he get involved in the book? [16:15];
  • How Peter’s writing evolved over the six years it took to write this book [25:00];
  • The structure of the book and what people can expect to learn [29:00];
  • How the writing of the book and the podcast interviews have shaped Peter’s thinking and approach to translating science [32:45];
  • Making the book stand the test of time despite the constant evolution of science and medicine [36:00];
  • Objective, strategy, and tactics [39:30];
  • Exciting possible progressions in science and medicine over the next decade [42:15];
  • What is holding back “medicine 3.0” from being the norm? [46:00];
  • How the book compares to the podcast in terms of technicality and readability for the layman [49:00];
  • Motivation to write the book and insights into challenges around the writing process [57:15];
  • Peter’s decision to be the reader for the audiobook [1:10:30];
  • The many painstaking last-minute changes and edits that brought the book together and made it better [1:19:00];
  • Peter and Bill’s favorite parts of the book [1:27:30];
  • The incredible team of people supporting the book [1:31:30]; and
  • More.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, welcome to the Drive Podcast.

0:13.0

I'm your host, Peter Atia.

0:14.8

This podcast, my website, and my weekly newsletter, I'll focus on the goal of translating

0:18.7

the science of longevity into something accessible for everyone.

0:22.4

Our goal is to provide the best content in health and wellness, full stop, and we've

0:26.6

assembled a great team of analysts to make this happen.

0:29.4

If you enjoy this podcast, we've created a membership program that brings you far more

0:33.2

in-depth content if you want to take your knowledge of the space to the next level.

0:37.3

At the end of this episode, I'll explain what those benefits are, or if you want to learn

0:41.1

more now, head over to peteratiamd.com forward slash subscribe.

0:46.3

Now, without further delay, here's today's episode.

0:51.1

Welcome to a special episode of the Drive.

0:54.0

As many of you may know by now after, more than six years of planning and background

0:58.6

research writing, editing, rewriting, rewriting, rewriting, my first book Outlive, The Science

1:05.2

and Art of longevity is out on March 28th.

1:08.6

And so for today's episode of the Drive, I'm joined by my co-author, Bill Gifford, to answer

1:13.6

a lot of questions that you guys have posed over the past few months on the book.

1:18.4

This conversation is really a discussion around the book and the behind the scenes look

1:24.0

at the past six years that it took us to write this book leading to where we are today.

1:29.8

It includes a lot of details around process that I haven't really spoken about elsewhere

1:34.2

and also about, you're really frankly why it took so long.

1:38.1

My hope is that for those of you that end up buying the book and reading it, this discussion

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