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Episode 27 How to Live a Longer, Higher Quality Life
Invest Like The Best

Episode 27: How to Live a Longer, Higher Quality Life

How to Live a Longer, Higher Quality Life

Peter Attia, M.D. is a physician whose interest is in maximizing human longevity. We cover the relationship between healthspan and lifespan, the ideas that he hopes become mainstream over the next 50 years, and how he guards himself from getting too attached to his old beliefs.

[00:02:31]  – (First question) – Getting Peter to define the concept of wealth and how it might have changed in his life

[00:05:01] – How do you increase the number of really good people in your life.

[00:06:50] – Looking at the relationship between healthspan and lifespan and a chart that Peter created on this specific topic.

[00:11:11] – Drilling down into the different dimensions and aspects of this chart that could be most important for people, especially how compounding plays into our health.

[00:16:57] – The difference between strategies and tactics that will help you extend lifespan

[00:17:54] – The Scientific Method-Richard Feynman

[00:21:41] – Different types of intermittent fasting

[00:28:59] – What role does repair play in health

[00:34:17] – Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

[00:36:01] – Looking back, what health trends today will look absurd

[00:36:19] – Diffusion of Innovations

[00:39:24] – What are the primary benefits of weight lifting

[00:40:21] – The importance of glucose disposal

[00:45:07] – Good Calories, Bad Calories

[00:46:31] – What is the state of progress in the scientific community

[00:52:14] – Peter is asked about how he guards against getting too attached to old beliefs

[01:01:51] – A look at how performance relates to healthspan

[01:03:34] –Peter’s first great auto-racing experience

[01:09:17] – Looking into Peter’s medical practice and understanding his thinking that goes into helping people

[01:18:11] – The most memorable day in Peter’s career

[01:22:31] – The kindest thing anyone has done for Peter

How to Live a Longer, Higher Quality Life

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.

Definition of Wealth

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