Peter Attia, M.D. - How to Live a Longer, Higher Quality Life - [Invest Like the Best, EP.27]

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Colossus

Investing, Business, Technology

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🗓️ 7 March 2017

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

My guest this week is Peter Attia, M.D., whose mission is to understand and improve human lifespan and healthspan (or quality of life). Reading Peter’s research, you find that there are many similarities between health and investing—ideas like compounding—which we explore in detail.

We spend a lot of time on mind, body, spirit and performance as it relates to living a better life. Of particular interest is the strategic problem that we face when studying longevity. As Peter puts it in our conversation: we are the species of interest, but we can’t conduct the kinds of experiments on humans—randomized trials, with control groups—that we apply to solve other big problems. So we have to back our way into a better understanding of longevity and quality of life.

To that end, we discuss what we can learn from studying centenarians, the problem of progress in science, a drug called Rapamycin (which Peter believes could be revolutionary), eating, the importance of muscle mass, and the idea of distressed tolerance. We emerge with a framework for thinking about health and well-being which can hopefully help us all live longer, better lives. Please enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome everyone, I'm Patrick O'Shaughnessy and this is Invest Like The Best.
0:08.6	This show is an open-ended exploration of markets, ideas, methods, stories, and of strategies
0:13.9	that will help you better invest both your time and your money.
0:17.2	You can learn more and stay up to date at InvestorFieldGuide.com.
0:24.6	Patrick O'Shaughnessy is a principal and portfolio manager at O'Shaughnessy Asset Management.
0:28.6	All opinions expressed by Patrick and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do
0:32.5	not reflect the opinion of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management.
0:35.3	This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis
0:39.2	for investment decisions.
0:40.5	Clients of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management may maintain positions in the securities discussed
0:44.2	in this podcast.
0:46.1	In 2010, I got fat.
0:49.5	Because I am a research junkie at heart, I started investigating ways to lose weight.
0:53.8	If you like me like to do deep research, you know the thrill of finding ideas and people
0:58.1	who have arrived at unique or contrarian solutions to common problems.
1:02.5	This episode is not about weight loss, but I mention it because it was by finding and
1:06.2	devouring the work of this week's guest, Peter Atia MD, that I reframed the way I think
1:11.3	about health period.
1:12.7	Now, usually I would describe someone's career chronologically.
1:16.9	Instead what I'll say about Peter is that he is obsessed with mastery, a topic which
1:20.6	we will discuss in detail.
1:22.9	He has applied his pursuit of mastery to the fields of medicine, surgery, performance
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