Why You Need To Protect Your Joints If You Want to Live to Be 100 | Peter Attia on Health Theory

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🗓️ 8 November 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Peter Attia, M.D., and founder of Attia Medical, PC, sits down with Tom to discuss what changes everyone should make in their life in order to build and extend the best quality of your physical and emotional durability as you age. Check out our amazing sponsors! Whole 30: Order the cookbook here: https://www.amazon.com/Whole30-Cookbook-Delicious-Totally-Compliant/dp/0544854411 ButcherBox: Use the discount code: "IMPACT" at butcherbox.com to get 20$ off and FREE BACON! Show Notes Preserving health and extending physical longevity [0:47] Loading muscle vs. loading joints [2:20] The new sport of becoming a kickass 100-year-old [3:27] Minimizing suffering and training to be the best 100-year-old [4:42] The physical results and consequences of aging [7:34] Adapting your exercise to risk probability [9:28] The VO2 max threshold [11:45] Fast vs. slow orthopedic injuries that kill people [14:58] The substantial risks of join overload [16:50] Driving and alcohol as the biggest misjudgments of risk [17:46] Caloric restriction offers considerable long-term benefits [21:31] The truth about the Standard American Diet (S.A.D.) [22:45] Investing in health over money [26:39] Being cautious on teaching kids how to eat [28:36] The Sunk Cost Fallacy [31:12] Using insecurities as a mechanism to drive you [34:40] Recognizing what your reactions actually mean [36:26] Surround yourself with honest, patient people [41:40] Being the best version of yourself for those you love [42:50] We suffer in our heads more than in any other way [44:59] Exercise, Sleep, Nutrition, Management of Distress [46:28] Follow Peter Attia WEBSITE: https://bit.ly/2qzsaFZ INSTAGRAM: https://bit.ly/2FaU9Wn

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Health Theory.
0:05.7	Today's guest is Dr. Peter Atia MD.
0:08.6	He's a former cancer surgeon and researcher who got his MD from Stanford was the resident
0:13.6	of the year at Johns Hopkins Hospital where he trained for five years and authored a comprehensive
0:18.0	review of general surgery.
0:20.1	He also spent two years at the NIH as a surgical oncology fellow and just because he can, he
0:25.8	also has a bachelor's of science degree in mechanical engineering and applied mathematics
0:30.8	and around it all out.
0:32.3	He's also an ultra-long-distance swimmer who has completed such ridiculously arduous journeys
0:37.2	as swimming from LA to Catalina Island in shark-infested waters.
0:42.0	But what I want to know is as somebody whose practice now focuses on longevity is living
0:47.8	forever possible, as you know, that is a goal of mine.
0:52.0	And why don't you want to live forever?
0:55.5	Well, to your first question, I don't think it is possible.
0:58.9	And I don't see anything on the horizon that makes it possible, at least not within the
1:02.3	way that we think of what it means to be alive, meaning to be aspiring cellularly.
1:06.6	It's very difficult to imagine immortality when you untether and uncouple the not-dying
1:13.4	part with the preservation of health span, so specifically cognitive performance and physical
1:19.7	performance.
1:22.4	I think more about those things now than I probably ever have before.
1:25.8	I think a lot about sort of the physical stuff, so what does it really mean to be a hundred,
1:31.8	but function like a well-to-do 50 to 60-year-old?
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