Peter Attia

What we really care about is strength. And therefore when we look at measurements of lean muscle... it's strength that is probably much more highly associated with... causally associated with mortality, cardiovascular di

The cases that stay with me are not the most complex surgeries, not the difficult IVF cycles. They are those women that cry not from pain, but during the appointment from relief. When I tell them, ‘You are suffering. I k

The rate of false positives and benign biopsies per exam is actually lowest with annual screening, likely because the radiologist has a more recent image to compare to, making it easier to distinguish cancerous changes f

Everybody thinks it's delivering cholesterol to cells almost never because every cell can make all the cholesterol it needs.

osteoporosis is a childhood disease.

The ketogenic diet is indeed a magical diet in the way that uh it remarkably changes our physiology and there's no other diet uh that exists that can for example manage drug resistant seizures and it does that because it

If you want to be able to have sex in your marginal decade, you need to have a V2 max of probably about 30 milliliters per kilogram per minute. Why? Because it would be pretty tough to have sex if you were doing it right

The problem is negative reinforcement is about 1/20th as effective as positive reinforcement.

there are two organs that are rate limiting in terms of your aging and it's the central nervous system and the immune system.

I think the hallmarks was good because it it it drove interest in the field... but uh it also is misleading because I think the idea that aging is 12 different things and you just need to fix all 12 of them is is complet

If you look at a group of people who are 65 years old or older who fracture their hip falling, 25% of those people will be dead in 6 months.

The absolute minimum thing I should use on my skin every day, it would be sunscreen.

Bodies die, living things die. It's uh I think a lot of us absorb a notion of death that it's some foreign invader or something that comes out of the woods and grabs us and otherwise I was just fine and then not. Um no.

The most eggs you'll ever have is when you're in your mom's womb as a fetus. And by the time you're born, there's about two million or so eggs. And by the time you start menstruating, you're down to maybe 400,000 or so.

If you asked me what's the theme for today, I'd say sperm matter a lot.

The magic word of capacity is what it's all about. Are you building me back to what I want to do?

If a penis shriveled up at age 52, we'd probably have a vaccine sponsored by Pfizer.

Trauma is a moment of perceived helplessness that activates the limbic system... the sine qua non of trauma is that there's a disconnected version of a person that shows up to life, relying on maladaptive strategies to r

I believe deep down it was an enormous mistake to be the head of science to be the head of advocacy. I think having having Dr. Fouchy as being both of those hats was a cataclysmic error. No. And it's not about him. No hu

Pain is the great motivator. Pain is one of the most primitive experiences going back to, if you will, single cell organisms. ... pain is so wonderful because it's so terrible. It keeps us alive.