Transcript
Introduction
Patrick
In 2010, I got fat. Because I am a research junkie at heart, I started investigating ways to lose weight. If you, like me, like to do deep research, you know the thrill of finding ideas and people who have arrived at unique or contrarian solutions to common problems. This episode is not about weight loss, but I mentioned it because it was by finding and devouring the work of this week's guest, Peter Attia, M.D., that I reframed the way I think about health, period. Now, usually, I would describe someone's career chronologically, instead, what I'll say about Peter is that he's obsessed with mastery, a topic which we will discuss in detail. He has applied his pursuit of mastery to the fields of medicine, surgery, performance athletics, mathematics, mechanical engineering, racing, swimming, and many other areas.Peter's mission and the topic of our conversation is to understand and improve our lifespan, and what he calls our healthspan. Healthspan, which is a proxy for quality of life, is where we spend a lot of our time during our conversation, specifically in the areas of mind, body, spirit, and performance. We discuss what we can learn from studying centenarians, the problem of progress in science, a drug called rapamycin, which Peter thinks may be revolutionary, eating, the importance of muscle mass, the idea of distress tolerance, and the many similarities between health and investing. I went into this conversation hoping to emerge with a framework for thinking about health and wellbeing that I could share with you. Peter delivers in spades. I'm going to relisten to this one several times to pull out ideas which I can put into practice. I hope you get as much out of this talk as I did. Please enjoy this awesome conversation with Peter Attia.Oh, and one more thing, be sure to check out the show notes for this episode, which you can find at investorfieldguide.com/attia, A-T-T-I-A. I've included several links to great thought-provoking videos and articles on the topics we cover. Okay, off we go.