Podcast: People I (Mostly) Admire
Episode: Peter Attia: Adding 10 Healthy Years to Your Life | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 102
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
Outlive
Buy on Amazon"It has taken him seven years to collect and organize his insights into his first book. It's called 'Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity.'"
Outlive
Buy on Amazon"But as we talked, you were hesitant to relive those old stories, and I didn't understand why until I read your new book, just published."
Outlive
Buy on Amazon"It's called 'Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity,' and reading the book, I realized that you have changed more in the last ten years than just about anyone else I know. I now understand why the last time you came on the show, you didn't want to talk about the old Peter."
Outlive
Buy on Amazon"When it comes to chronic diseases, when you look at chronic conditions—type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, neurodegenerative disease—that playbook doesn't seem to work very well. All it does is slightly extend life but with a reduction in quality of life and given that this book, 'Outlive,' is about longevity, and longevity is only half about length of life, we have to be just as concerned with quality of life."
Outlive
Buy on Amazon"In the book, I use this example, Steve: if I said to you we're going to institute a new policy which is we're going to tell people that it's okay to smoke until their risk of lung cancer reaches five percent, but then we're going to tell people to stop smoking, I think everyone would look at me and say that's a dumb idea."
Outlive
Buy on Amazon"One kind of study that you report on in the book that I wouldn't have thought would be very useful, but you draw real insights from, are studies of people who live to be 100. So looking ex post at the people who live a really long time, what is it that we learn from those studies?"
Outlive
Buy on Amazon"I've known Peter for a decade, but until I read the book, I had no idea he had suffered physical and sexual abuse as a child. No idea about his lifelong struggles with emotional health."
Outlive
Buy on Amazon"It was shocking for me to read, and I can imagine it's not easy for him to talk about this topic, but I found what he wrote in the book so moving, so important, that I at least want to bring up the topic."
Outlive
Buy on Amazon"If you find it compelling, I strongly recommend his book; it's called Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity."
Creative Act
Buy on Amazon"He has a new book out about the creative process, and it's one of the strangest things I've ever read. I remember when I started the whole endeavor about eight years ago; meeting with publishers, I explained how I envisioned the book, and all of them said, 'Yeah, but you’re going to tell stories about Johnny Cash and you're going to discuss Jay-Z.'"