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The Next Big Idea

OUTLIVE (Part 1): Peter Attia’s Guide to the Science of Longevity

The Next Big Idea

Next Big Idea Club

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Education, Science

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Peter Attia had a problem. It was 2006. He'd recently graduated from Stanford's medical school and was completing a prestigious surgical residency at Johns Hopkins, but instead of celebrating his success, he was tormented by frustrations. The medical establishment, it seemed to him, was stubbornly resistant to change and innovation; doctors could easily diagnose the maladies that kill most of us — heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's, and type 2 diabetes — but they struggled to help their patients avoid those diagnoses in the first place. Peter believed there had to be another approach. He was convinced it was possible to practice a cutting-edge form of medicine that didn't just manage diseases but tried to prevent them. So he embarked on a journey to figure out how to do it. Now, nearly two decades later, he's compiled everything he learned on that journey in a book, the #1 New York Times bestseller "Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity." It's a comprehensive guide to exercise, nutrition, sleep, and mental health that'll help you live better for longer. Peter Attia is the founder of Early Medicine and host of "The Drive." (This is part one of a two-part episode. Check back next Thursday for the second installment.) P.S. We're hosting a live event in New York City on June 28th! Rufus will take the stage with Steven Johnson, David Chalmers, and John Borthwick to discuss the rise of generative AI and the mainstreaming of augmented reality. Learn more at betaworks.com/event/ai-consciousness

Transcript

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0:00.0

LinkedIn presents.

0:06.3

I'm Rufus Griskym and this is the next big idea.

0:10.7

Today, what you and I need to do now to live a long,

0:14.5

happy, healthy life.

0:31.0

We have something unusual for you today.

0:40.1

For the first time in over three years of putting out the next big idea

0:44.1

podcast every single week, we are sharing a two-hour conversation

0:48.6

with one individual over the next two episodes, part one and part two.

0:54.6

Why are we breaking precedent?

0:56.5

Well, Peter Atea, our guest today, is an unprecedented guy.

1:02.6

For those of you who haven't heard of him, Peter Atea is a Stanford

1:06.1

NIH-trained physician, a longevity expert whose podcast has been

1:10.5

downloaded over 60 million times and the first guy to swim more than 17

1:16.1

miles from Maui to the island of Lanai and back again over open water.

1:22.4

He is also, those facts notwithstanding, a human being, a fellow mortal

1:27.5

who has struggled with health setbacks, a botched back surgery and a family

1:31.9

history of heart disease that resulted in the early death of many of

1:35.5

his male relatives, often in their 40s and 50s.

1:39.1

Like so many of us, Peter has done his best to absorb available data and

1:43.7

make informed decisions about how to eat, sleep, exercise and live a

1:48.0

happy, long, balanced life.

1:51.3

Peter's process, however, as a trained physician, turned McKinsey

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