283. Optimize Your Healthspan: How To Live Longer & Stronger with Dr. Peter Attia #WellnessWednesdays
Be Well by Kelly Leveque
Kelly Leveque
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🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
How do we live not just longer, but healthier? And how can we maximize the time we have to do the things we love? We tackle these essential questions, and more, today with longevity expert Dr. Peter Attia.
Dr. Attia is the founder of Early Medical, a medical practice that applies the principles of Medicine 3.0 to help patients lengthen their lifespan and improve their healthspan. He's the host of The Drive, one of the most popular podcasts covering the topics of health and medicine, and the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity.
On today’s episode, we talk about the important difference between lifespan and healthspan. Dr. Attia explains what Medicine 3.0 means, and why it’s the next frontier to help prevent chronic diseases. We get into key tactics to optimize healthspan, including exercise, nutrition, sleep, and emotional health. Plus, Dr. Attia gives us some great take home tips on how to regain muscle mass, enhance strength, and improve VO2 max.
As a fellow parent, Dr. Attia shares his advice for cooking as a family, getting your children active, and modeling healthy behavior for our little ones. Dr. Attia’s message is all about looking forward – for your own wellness and the health of your family for years to come.
We also cover:
(00:01:13) The New Paradigm of Medicine 3.0
(00:09:32) How Medicine 2.0 Fails to Treat Chronic Disease
(00:12:33) 4 Tactics To Optimize Healthspan
(00:19:58) How To Regain Muscle Mass
(00:25:23) Getting Clear on Your Goals
(00:32:35) Prioritizing Healthy Activity in Your Kids
(00:39:03) Healthy Eating for Dr. Attia’s Family
(00:45:44) Calories vs. Macros: Which Are More Important?
(00:52:04) Establishing Your Baseline
(00:56:04) Enhancing Emotional Health
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Instagram: @peterattiamd
Read: Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity by Peter Attia, MD
Website: peterattiamd.com
Early Medical Website: earlymedical.com
The Drive Podcast: peterattiamd.com/podcast
YouTube: @PeterAttiaMD
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| 0:00.0 | what we really do is get our patients to focus on what it is, and I mean very specifically that they want to be able to do in the last decade of their life. |
| 0:10.4 | So do you want to be able to walk up a flight of stairs unassisted? Do you |
| 0:15.8 | want to be able to get up off the floor unassisted? Do you want to be able to |
| 0:19.4 | pick a child up off the ground? But let me tell you, if you don't train for that, it won't happen. |
| 0:27.9 | We get people to be very clear on what their goals are. We figure out what are |
| 0:35.0 | are the requirements, what are the physical and physiologic requirements |
| 0:38.0 | to hit those goals, |
| 0:40.0 | you've got to kind of have like a good reason to do it. |
| 0:43.0 | Dr. Peter Attia is the founder of Early Medical, a medical practice that applies the principles of |
| 0:54.1 | Medicine 3.0 to patients with the goal of lengthening their lifespan and |
| 0:57.7 | simultaneously improving their health span. He's the host of the drive, one of the |
| 1:01.6 | most popular podcasts covering the topics of the drive, one of the most popular podcasts |
| 1:02.8 | covering the topics of health and medicine. |
| 1:04.7 | He is also the author of the number one New York Times bestseller, |
| 1:07.9 | Outlive the science and art of longevity. |
| 1:10.3 | Peter, I feel like everyone probably already knows who you are. They've probably read your book |
| 1:17.4 | Outlive as of almost a year ago now and maybe even been following along on your |
| 1:22.3 | podcast, |
| 1:23.2 | but it is such a pleasure to bring you on the show today |
| 1:25.8 | to really talk to my audience specifically, |
| 1:27.8 | which is a lot of young, busy moms who want to stay fit. |
| 1:32.2 | So for the ones who don't know who you are, can you kind of give us a little bit of your background and how you got into |
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