Enhancing Your "Healthspan" to Live Well for 100+ Years with Dr. Peter Attia

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to aging well, we all have to set our own standards and goals. That might mean playing with your grandkids on the floor, carrying groceries up several flights of stairs, or being able to be present emotionally and mentally for your spouse. Thinking of these detailed goals helps us reverse engineer our lives to achieve the quality and longevity in life we truly desire. It just takes a little thought and planning, and of course the right actions to make it happen.

Today’s guest on The Doctor’s Farmacy, Dr. Peter Attia, shares his own story of setting those kinds of goals, a process called backcasting, and how he overcame obesity and pre-diabetes by establishing a foundation of healthier aging. Dr. Attia is the founder of Attia Medical, PC, a medical practice with offices in San Diego and New York City, focusing on the applied science of longevity. His approach focuses on increasing lifespan by delaying the onset of chronic disease, while simultaneously improving “healthspan,” or quality of life. To do this, his practice applies nutritional biochemistry, exercise physiology, sleep physiology, techniques to increase distress tolerance, lipidology, pharmacology, and endocrinology.

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0:00.0	Coming up on this week's episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:02.8	That's where you want to put your energy as a change your environment so that you don't have to constantly rely on willpower so that when there is friction, I make the easy choice.
0:12.5	Make the easy choice to use your choice. Yeah.
0:18.4	Welcome to the doctor's pharmacy. I'm Dr. Mark Heimann and that's pharmacy with FFAR.
0:23.1	FAR. M-A-C-Y. A place for conversations that matter if you care about your health,
0:26.6	if you care about longevity, if you care about understanding how to optimize your performance.
0:31.6	This is the conversation for you because it's with Dr. Peter Atiyat who is one of the physicians in the world that I respect and admire most.
0:38.9	I met him first after a screening of Fedup and I heard him speak at Ted Med in 2013.
0:45.6	I encourage everybody to watch that talk on Ted Med because he told his story, pretty remarkable story, of being a physician who.
0:56.6	Whether most physicians like to admit it or not or people like to admit it or not have a bias against people who are overweight because we kind of blame the victim.
1:05.3	We say, well, you got diabetic and overweight because you ate too much and you didn't exercise enough. Turns out that is a bunch of horse, you know what?
1:14.5	And Peter explains why and how he actually came to understand this through his own biology.
1:20.5	So we're going to get into that story in a minute.
1:22.0	He has a medical practice called the teamedical in New York and San Diego.
1:25.7	He focuses on the science of longevity.
1:29.2	What is the science of longevity and how do we increase not only lifespan, but also increase health spanner quality of life.
1:36.6	So he applies nutritional biochemistry, which is one of my favorite topics, exercise physiology, sleep physiology, techniques to address.
1:46.0	How we can be more resilient in the form of stress and something called lipidology, which is study of lipids and cholesterol, we're going to get into that drugs and hormones.
1:56.0	So Peter is quite a guy.
1:57.8	He's trained at Johns Hopkins and general surgery.
2:00.7	He won many awards, including Resim, the ER, and he wrote a whole book on general surgery.
2:05.4	He spent two years at the National Institute of Health and Cerebral Oncology and was a fellow with the National Cancer Institute.
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