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Peter Attia books: every book Peter Attia wrote and recommended
Across 11 podcasts. Every show Peter Attia appears on, in one place — not just one.
Books by Peter Attia
Peter Attia’s most recommended books
- The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
- The Road to Character by David Brooks
- What Your Food Ate by David R. Montgomery, Anne Biklé
- Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language by Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar
- The Next 100 Years by George Friedman
- The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- Freedom by Sebastian Junger
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- The Storm Before the Calm by George Friedman
Peter Attia is a Canadian-American author, licensed physician and former researcher known for his work in longevity medicine. He is the author of Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity. During multiple podcast appearances, Dr. Attia recommended several books that shaped his thinking on health, relationships, and human behavior. On The Joe Rogan Experience, he mentioned George Friedman's The Storm Before the Calm, noting that the author lived in the local area. When speaking on EconTalk, Attia brought up Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Song of the Cell to explain the cellular revolution in medicine. On On Purpose with Jay Shetty, he recommended David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé's What Your Food Ate, describing it as a deep, nerdy, and complex dive into the relationship between soil health and nutrition. Discussing personal values on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett and the Huberman Lab, Attia highlighted David Brooks's The Road to Character, using it to reflect on whether people live their lives for resume virtues rather than eulogy virtues. On Modern Wisdom, he discussed Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar's The Social Brain, pointing to its findings on the power of social groups for health and longevity outcomes.
Books recommended by Peter Attia
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Outlive
Outlive by Peter Attia and Bill Gifford is a comprehensive guide to longevity and health optimization, focusing on proactive medical strategies to extend both lifespan and healthspan.
Discussed“If I want to live longer, I described in chapter four of *Outlive* that this is mathematically equivalent in modern society to delaying the onset of chronic diseases.”
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Outlive the Science and Art of Longevity
Outlive the Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia is a comprehensive medical and health guide that challenges traditional paradigms of aging, offering proactive strategies to extend healthspan and prevent chronic illness.
Discussed“he's an author and he wrote this book called The Storm Before the calm super interesting”
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The Comfort Crisis
The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter is an exploration of how modern comforts and sedentary lifestyles negatively impact human health and well-being, advocating for the intentional reintegration of physical challenges.
Discussed“but but I do I do think a lot of what Michael Easter talks about in the comfort crisis really resonates well there's a difference between being present in the sort of Zen Buddhist sense”
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The Road to Character
The Road to Character by David Brooks is a bestselling cultural and philosophical exploration examining the modern obsession with external achievement at the expense of inner moral worth.
Recommended“that in a moment really fused an idea from a book I had just read by a guy named David Brooks called the road to character”
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What Your Food Ate
What Your Food Ate by David R.
Recommended“There is a great book I would recommend for people who want to go really deep on this. I believe the book is called What Your Food Ate, and it's it's a wonderful book. It's a bit of a deep dive. It's a nerdy book. It's not light reading.”
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Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language by Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar explores the evolutionary origins of human social behavior, arguing that language evolved primarily to facilitate social bonding and maintain relationships within large groups.
Recommended“I recently read a book by Robin Dunbar uh friends uh sorry uh the social brain his new one and then it he says one of the biggest discoveries that we've seen over the last decade has been the unbelievable power on Health and Longevity outcomes to having a social group has with us”
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The Next 100 Years
The Next 100 Years by George Friedman is a geopolitical forecasting book that attempts to predict global conflicts, technological shifts, and the rise and fall of superpowers over the course of the twenty-first century.
Recommended“He's an author and he wrote this book called The Storm Before the calm super interesting He lives out here”
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The Song of the Cell
The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee is a sweeping exploration of modern cell biology and medicine that chronicles the scientific revolution transforming our understanding of human health and disease.
Recommended“I'm sure you've read Sid mukherjee's book the cell and I think he does perhaps the best job of anyone in kind of explaining what really took place in this cellular Revolution”
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Fight Club
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk is a searing satirical novel examining modern masculinity, consumerism, and the psychological fractures of contemporary life.
Discussed“I mean I I remember reading one of the biographies of Ali I think it was might have been Thomas Hauser's biography where he goes into pretty good detail on the state of his medical care at the end of his career”
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Freedom
Freedom by Sebastian Junger is a non-fiction book that explores the complex nature of human freedom through a grueling walk along the railroad lines of the eastern United States.
Discussed“and he talks about how I'm sure you've read Freedom which is a book that he wrote uh uh kind of his last book”
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The Art of War
The Art of War by Sun Tzu is an ancient military treatise on strategy, tactical awareness, and understanding adversaries that continues to guide modern readers in various fields.
Discussed“The Art of War is just filled with gems there was another sunzu quote that I wanted to include but we just decided that uh we had to limit it to just one”
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The Storm Before the Calm
Discussed“he's an author and he wrote this book called The Storm Before the calm super interesting”
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Tribe
Tribe by Sebastian Junger is a non-fiction book that explores the psychological need for community, human connection, and the challenges veterans face when reintegrating into modern society.
Discussed“I only read the first few chapters reading but I really love tribe yeah tribe verstappa I mean these are these are amazing things”
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Questions about Peter Attia’s book recommendations
What book does Peter Attia recommend most?
The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter. Peter Attia recommended it in 2 episodes.
How many books has Peter Attia recommended on podcasts?
We have found 13 books Peter Attia recommended or discussed, across 12 episodes of 11 podcasts. Ad reads and passing mentions are not counted.
What books are on Peter Attia's reading list?
The books Peter Attia has recommended most on podcasts are The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter, The Road to Character by David Brooks, What Your Food Ate by David R. Montgomery, Anne Biklé, Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language by Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar and The Next 100 Years by George Friedman. The full book list below has all 13.
What books has Peter Attia written?
Outlive (2023).
What did Peter Attia recommend on The Joe Rogan Experience?
Outlive the Science and Art of Longevity, The Next 100 Years and Fight Club, among 6 books in all.
What is the latest book Peter Attia recommended?
The Art of War, discussed on How I Write (2024-08-28).
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Other mentions (10: passing, ad reads, own books)
“so I kind of think of like if we want to live longer and I described this I think in chapter 4 of outlive there's a that's a that turns out to be mathematically equivalent in the modern society to delaying the onset of chronic disease now”
“So I haven't read his book, Bad Blood, Um, but I saw the documentary.”
“so you know the the title of the book right is outlive the science and art of longevity”
“I wrote the first version by myself and nobody liked it right so everybody was like this is way too Technical and there's no story”
“I also do talk about this a little bit in the book, by the way.”
“And you know, I write about this in the book; I think there was a day when my approach to this was purely an engineering approach, which was we're going to optimize every molecule of my being for this, and if you go so far down that rabbit hole that the quality of your life deteriorates, what's the point?”
“The two examples I think I talk about in the book are colon cancer and breast cancer.”
“Well, it's—and I do write about this at length in the chapter on Alzheimer's disease because I think this is a very important point, right?”
“I dedicate a chapter in my book to the concept of stability, as it is foreign to many people.”
“That chapter, being quite long, is distinctly different from the rest of the book.”