What Medicine is Getting WRONG, with Dr. Peter Attia!

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 96 minutes

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The Ultimate Guide to Living Longer and Happier – with World Famous Longevity MD, Peter Attia! Dr. Peter Attia’s MOST personal interview yet. Best-selling author of Outlive & host of The Drive podcast Dr. Peter Attia reveals why the current medical model is failing us and how a focus on combating the erosion of healthspan could be the secret to a fuller, richer life. We can PREVENT chronic diseases - Dr. Attia's insights will change the way you think about your health forever! He helps us break down everything from the real reasons we should avoid certain foods and the impact of mental health on our physical well-being, to the role of spirituality as a healing component to terminal illness and trauma. We also cover: - Why most people today are dying from chronic diseases - Impediments our doctors are currently facing - Certain foods to avoid - How to best make use of the time we have to dedicate to our health each week - The benefits of young people spending time with the elderly population - How to prioritize and implement new health information in the ever-changing medical landscape - What is parasuicide and how do we tackle it? - How to detach your behaviors from your urges Dr. Attia GETS PERSONAL in a way you've never seen him before. He opens up about: - Being addicted to workaholism, perfectionism, anger, and even oxycontin - The physiological ramifications he experienced from going cold turkey off of oxytocin - His psychedelic experiences - What numbing the pain looks like for him now - Why the underlying emotion under his anger is helplessness Are you ready to challenge everything you thought you knew about health and longevity? TUNE IN to MBB for this life-altering perspective on making the most out of our time on this earth!

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0:00.0	Where most people are dying today is of chronic diseases and where most people are
0:07.2	suffering today is from an erosion of health span.
0:11.5	So even if we are incrementally eking out a few more years of
0:15.3	lifespan which you know technically we're not actually lifespan is retreating a
0:20.0	little bit in the United States I think we're down to about 76 and a half years or so.
0:27.0	So we've had a significant retreat in large part on the back unfortunately of opioid epidemics.
0:34.8	Medicine would be better served if it changed the metrics of interest.
0:38.7	So if you go to your doctor, they might simply be putting out fires that are right in front of them.
0:43.6	If you only have seven minutes or 10 minutes or 14 minutes with a patient, it's very difficult
0:49.2	to do anything proactive, let alone to take an interest in real health span related issues.
0:57.9	The single most important resource that an individual needs to take control of their life and improve their
1:07.8	longevity is knowledge and time. It doesn't mean that money doesn't matter. It just doesn't rank in the top too.
1:15.0	So it's really important that people understand that race, wealth, celebrity status, don't rank very highly in that hierarchy.
1:25.0	Here's the good news.
1:27.0	The knowledge is at this point free.
1:29.0	Literally, it is free.
1:32.0	You give these things called podcasts. They is free. If these things called Podcasts, they are free.
1:35.0	Knowledge at this point is not the bottleneck.
1:38.0	The bottleneck is truly time.
1:41.0	It's May and bollix breakdown.
1:43.0	She's going to break it down for you.
1:46.0	Because you know she knows a thing or two.
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