I read these four longevity books and hundreds of the underlying scientific publications

so you don't have to. I'm Dr. Vinay Prasad and you're listening to Medicine Unpacked.

In the next few episodes, I'm going to walk through four books on longevity science.

I'm going to go through the claims they make and what's the evidence underlying those claims.

I'm very interested in what they have in common and when they defer.

And we're going to praise the evidence for all of those in this series.

The four books I read span the gamut.

We have a professor and provost at an Ivy League university all the way to concierge medicine

and functional medicine doctors. So we get the range and breadth

of opinion. By no means is my list exhaustive, but I hope to capture the range of voices in this

space. And then, whenever the author cite a reference that I think is of sufficient interest,

I dove deep, read that paper and usually a half dozen of the related papers on the topic. And that's the

framework with which I approach this topic. We have four big books. I mean, these were often

international bestsellers. They include Eat Your Ice Cream by Dr. Zeke Emanuel, Super Agers by

Dr. Eric Topal, Outlived by Dr. Peter Atia, and Young Forever by Dr. Mark Hyman. And we're going to go through these books and the underlying claims in this series. Just a few of the topics we're going to cover is sleep. That's what I'm going to include in this video. Then we're going to go on and get into nutrition science and exercise science. We're going to talk about cancer screening. We're going to talk about what blood work do you need. We're going to talk about cancer screening. We're going to talk about

what blood work do you need. We're going to talk about cholesterol management, cholesterol medications.

I'm going to do a video on some very odd things that were mentioned in these books, as well as a

different video, I think, on things they didn't mention, curious things that they omitted. And finally,

I'm going to do a video on blue zones,

regions of the world where people live on average longer than the average person and centenarians,

those individuals who happen to make it to 100 years of age. What can we learn by restricting

our search and analysis to these cohorts of people? I'll talk about the evidentiary challenges

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