Dr. Peter Attia: Improve Vitality, Emotional & Physical Health & Lifespan

Huberman Lab

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Science, Health & Fitness, Life Sciences

4.8 • 26.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 210 minutes

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In this episode, my guest is Peter Attia, M.D. He completed his medical and advanced training at Stanford University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Attia is host of the health and medicine podcast, The Drive, and the author of a new book, “Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity,” which examines disease prevention and healthy aging, including emotional health. He explains the leading causes of death worldwide and how to measure one’s risk of death and mitigate each risk factor. Dr. Attia shares how, in addition to blood-based markers of lipids and hormones, there are behavioral measures and interventions, and key aspects of emotional health (i.e., relationships, emotional stability, purpose, etc.) that fundamentally impact our physical health and longevity, and how to assess and adjust our emotional health. This episode is rich with actionable information related to disease screening and biomarker testing, nutritional, exercise, behavior and prescription-based tools that area useful to all people regardless of age, male or female, and that can significantly improve vitality, health and lifespan. For the full show notes, visit hubermanlab.com. Thank you to our sponsors AG1 (Athletic Greens): https://athleticgreens.com/huberman Eight Sleep: https://eightsleep.com/huberman LMNT: https://drinklmnt.com/huberman HVMN: https://hvmn.com/huberman InsideTracker: https://www.insidetracker.com/huberman Supplements from Momentous https://www.livemomentous.com/huberman Timestamps (00:00:00) Dr. Peter Attia (00:03:22) Sponsors: Eight Sleep, LMNT, HVMN, Momentous (00:07:34) Lifespan vs. Healthspan (00:10:54) “4 Horseman of Death”, Diseases of Atherosclerosis (00:14:44) Tool: Hypertension & Stroke, Blood Pressure Testing (00:23:14) Preventing Atherosclerosis, Smoking & Vaping, Pollution (00:32:24) Sponsor: AG1 (Athletic Greens) (00:33:29) Cholesterol, ApoB (00:42:21) Cholesterol Levels, LDL & ApoB Testing (00:49:29) ApoB Levels & Atherosclerosis, Causality (01:01:06) ApoB Reduction, Insulin Resistance, Statins, Ezetimibe, PCSK9 Inhibitors (01:12:30) Monitoring ApoB (01:17:12) Sponsor: InsideTracker (01:18:30) Reducing Blood Pressure, Exercise & Sleep (01:20:50) High Blood Pressure & Kidneys (01:23:11) Alcohol, Sleep & Disease Risk (01:31:21) Cancer & Cancer Risks: Genetics, Smoking & Obesity (01:39:47) Cancer Screening & Survival (01:44:17) Radiation Risks, CT & PET Scans (01:48:48) Environmental Carcinogens (01:52:11) Genetic & Whole-Body MRI Screening, Colonoscopy (01:58:47) Neurodegenerative Diseases, Alzheimer’s Disease, ApoE (02:08:08) Alzheimer’s Disease & Amyloid (02:13:58) Interventions for Brain Health, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) (02:21:26) Accidental Death, “Deaths of Despair”, Fentanyl Crisis (02:31:20) Fall Risk & Stability, 4 Pillars of Strength Training (02:41:05) Emotional Health (02:53:45) Mortality & Preserving Relationship Quality (03:02:20) Relationships vs. Outcomes, Deconstructing Emotions (03:09:34) Treatment Centers, Emotional Processing & Recovery (03:16:34) Tool: Inner Monologue & Anger, Redirecting Self-Talk (03:27:37) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Momentous, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac Disclaimer

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Huberman Lab podcast where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life.
0:08.6	I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and
0:12.3	Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. Today my guest is Dr. Peter Atia, his second time on the podcast.
0:19.2	Dr. Peter Atia is a medical doctor who did his training at Stanford School of Medicine,
0:24.2	Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the National Institutes of Health.
0:27.6	He is a world expert in all things related to health span, vitality, and longevity. In this episode we focused on many topics
0:36.1	focusing mainly however on health span and longevity and mental health.
0:40.8	Health span and longevity of course relate to how long one lives and
0:45.1	Dr. Atia goes systematically through the seven major causes of death worldwide,
0:50.0	beginning with cardiovascular disease and cerebral vascular disease,
0:54.0	also cancer, also accident related deaths, dementia, deaths of despair, and in every case
1:01.2	explains the three or four major levers that one can employ in order to offset, that is to prevent
1:08.0	those major causes of death. What follows is an incredibly informative and actionable set of tools for anyone,
1:14.5	male, female, young or old. He explains the behavioral, nutritional, supplementation based,
1:20.1	and prescription drug based approaches that one can use in order to extend health span and longevity.
1:25.6	Dr. Atia explains the key tests and markers that we should all pay attention to if our goal is to
1:30.9	extend our health span and how to do so while maximizing our vitality. This is something that not a lot of
1:37.3	people think about when they think about health span and longevity, but as Dr. Atia illustrates for
1:43.2	us emotional health has everything to do with our physical health and vice versa, and he shares
1:48.4	quite openly about his own experiences in pursuing ways to improve emotional health and thereby
1:54.7	health span, lifespan, and vitality. Dr. Atia is quite open about his own experiences,
2:00.0	exploring different practices to improve emotional health as ways not just to improve
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