Why You Need To Protect Your Joints If You Want to Live to Be 100 | Peter Attia (Replay)
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🗓️ 2 October 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to Health Theory. Today's guest is Dr. Peter Rottia MD. He's a former cancer |
| 0:09.5 | surgeon and researcher who got his MD from Stanford, was the resident of the year at Johns Hopkins |
| 0:14.9 | Hospital where he trained for five years and authored a comprehensive review of general surgery. |
| 0:20.0 | He also spent two years at the NIH as a surgical oncology fellow, and just because he can, |
| 0:25.7 | he also has a bachelor's of science degree in mechanical engineering and applied mathematics. |
| 0:31.0 | And to round it all out, he's also an ultra long-distance swimmer who has completed such |
| 0:35.3 | ridiculously arduous journeys as swimming from |
| 0:38.0 | L.A. to Catalina Island in shark-infested waters. But what I want to know is, as somebody |
| 0:43.9 | who's practice now focuses on longevity, is living forever possible, as you know? That is a goal |
| 0:50.7 | of mine. And why don't you want to live forever? Well, to your first question, |
| 0:57.0 | I don't think it is possible. I don't, and I don't see anything on the horizon that makes it |
| 1:01.2 | possible, at least not within the way that we think of what it means to be alive, meaning to be |
| 1:04.6 | respiring cellularly. It's very difficult to imagine immortality when you untether and uncouple the not dying part with the preservation of health span, so specifically cognitive performance and physical performance. |
| 1:21.1 | And I think more about those things now than I probably ever have before. |
| 1:25.9 | I think a lot about sort of the physical stuff. |
| 1:28.5 | So what does it really mean to be a hundred but function like a well-to-do 50 to 60 year old? |
| 1:37.7 | And even if you're alive, how happy would you be? I mean, it would be, I think for many people, |
| 1:41.5 | it would be quite frustrating. Or, you know, if you had grandkids or great grandkids and you couldn't play with them, or you couldn't tie |
| 1:47.9 | your shoe. I mean, we actually used tying a shoe as one of the metrics to evaluate sort of flexibility |
| 1:53.8 | and certain physical performance. So most people, R.H, don't think of tying their shoe as a physical |
| 1:58.9 | performance. And yet when you would start to lose those things, I think you'd have a radically different |
| 2:04.3 | view of, you know, what am I doing? |
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