📚 2 Books mentioned in "Peter Attia: Adding 10 Healthy Years to Your Life | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 102" of People I (Mostly) Admire
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Episode: Peter Attia: Adding 10 Healthy Years to Your Life | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 102
Published on April 3, 2023
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Creative Act
Buy Creative Act by Rick Rubin 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.'
The host, Steve Levitt, mentions Rick Rubin's new book, 'The Creative Act: A Way of Being,' which explores the creative process and is described as one of the strangest things the host has ever read.
Outlive
Buy Outlive by Peter Attia, Bill Gifford 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.'
In this segment, podcast host Steve Levitt discusses guest Peter Attia's first book, 'Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity,' which encapsulates seven years of insightful research and organization.
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.
Steve Levitt, the host, shares that he understood the guest's reluctance to discuss past stories only after reading their newly published book.
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.
In this segment, podcast host Steve Levitt mentions the title of Peter Attia's book, 'Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity,' sharing how his reading of the book helped him appreciate the significant changes Attia has undergone over the past decade.
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.
Peter Attia discusses his book 'Outlive' while addressing the shortcomings of traditional medicine in dealing with chronic diseases, emphasizing the importance of both longevity and quality of life.
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.
Peter Attia discusses an illustrative example from his book to explain his perspective on risk management and causality in medicine.
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?
In this segment, the host discusses studies mentioned in Peter Attia's book that focus on the insights gained from examining the lives of people who reach the age of 100.
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.
In this segment, podcast host Steve Levitt discusses the insights he gained about Peter Attia after reading his book, particularly revelations about Attia's childhood experiences and emotional challenges.
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.
The host shares how impactful the insights in Peter Attia's book were, leading him to emphasize the significance of discussing emotional health.
If you find it compelling, I strongly recommend his book; it's called Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity.
At the conclusion of the episode, the host strongly encourages listeners to read the guest's book, Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, if they found the discussion engaging.