Peter Attia on Lifespan, Healthspan, and Outlive

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🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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We spend too much of our health care focus on lifespan and not enough on healthspan--the quality of our life as we get older. So argues Dr. Peter Attia, author of Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity. Attia speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about what kills us, what slows us down as we age, and the weapons we have to allow us to live better and longer.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:13.0	Institution.
0:14.0	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.6	You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org, we'd love to hear from you.
0:37.4	Today is September 5th, 2023 and my guest is Dr. Peter Atea.
0:42.6	His podcast is the drive and he is the author with Bill Gifford about live, the science and
0:48.0	art of longevity, which is our topic for today.
0:50.6	Peter, welcome to econtalk.
0:52.6	Thanks for having me, Russ.
0:54.3	Now the book is a combination of advice for the reader, how to live in a different way.
0:59.3	It also is a critique of advice for the field of medicine and I'm sure we'll bounce back
1:03.8	and forth between those.
1:06.0	I want to start with an early part of the book which is a dream you had, maybe we're
1:09.9	of a nightmare that involved eggs.
1:12.6	Tell us what that was about.
1:14.6	Yeah, so in this dream I was sort of tasked with catching eggs before they hit the ground
1:22.7	and so there's a tall building, not that tall, maybe two or three stories tall, and
1:27.4	there's a guy on the top and he's tossing eggs out of a basket and I have a padded basket
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