What can we learn about longevity from centenarians? | Peter Attia, M.D. https://peterattiamd.com/category/longevity/centenarians/ Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:48:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://peterattiamd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-apple-icon-32x32.png What can we learn about longevity from centenarians? | Peter Attia, M.D. https://peterattiamd.com/category/longevity/centenarians/ 32 32 #329 ‒ Special AMA: Peter on exercise, important labs, building good habits, promising longevity research, and more https://peterattiamd.com/specialama/ Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000 https://peterattiamd.com/?p=31196 In this special episode of The Drive, Peter tackles a wide range of listener questions submitted over the past year. The discussion spans essential topics such as exercise—covering grip strength, traveling workouts, and why Peter doesn’t consider exercise an ideal weight-loss strategy—and the top biomarkers everyone should track. He also explores promising new longevity research,…

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]]> What can we learn from “blue zones”? https://peterattiamd.com/blue-zones/ Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://peterattiamd.com/?p=29857 Certain areas of the world have been reported as having disproportionately high numbers of centenarians. What explains these patterns, and what – if anything – do they reveal about the “secrets” to long life?

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]]> Lessons from centenarians: why prevention of chronic disease is critical https://peterattiamd.com/lessons-from-centenarians-why-prevention-of-chronic-disease-is-critical/ Tue, 26 Apr 2022 11:00:01 +0000 https://peterattiamd.com/?p=17875 "To me, the takeaway for us, as physicians or people who want to have an extra five years of life or 10 years of life... is nothing matters more than prevention of chronic disease. And by the way, you don't get to prevent it once you have your heart attack. Secondary prevention is not prevention." - Peter Attia, M.D.

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]]> #204 – Centenarians, metformin, and longevity | Nir Barzilai, M.D. https://peterattiamd.com/nirbarzilai2/ https://peterattiamd.com/nirbarzilai2/#comments Mon, 25 Apr 2022 08:45:21 +0000 https://peterattiamd.com/?p=17736 “If you prevent aging and age-related disease, you're going to compress morbidity, too.” — Nir Barzilai

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]]> https://peterattiamd.com/nirbarzilai2/feed/ 5 Qualys #241 – The genetic gift of centenarians https://peterattiamd.com/the-genetic-gift-of-centenarians/ Tue, 18 Jan 2022 18:11:15 +0000 https://peterattiamd.com/?p=16605 This episode of The Qualys is from podcast #35, Nir Barzilai, M.D.: How to tame aging, which was originally released on January 7, 2019.

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]]> How to Train for the Centenarian Decathlon™ https://peterattiamd.com/how-to-train-for-the-centenarian-decathlon/ https://peterattiamd.com/how-to-train-for-the-centenarian-decathlon/#comments Tue, 18 Jan 2022 17:07:02 +0000 https://peterattiamd.com/?p=16602 This clip is from “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) episode #05, originally released on April 22, 2019.

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]]> https://peterattiamd.com/how-to-train-for-the-centenarian-decathlon/feed/ 4 #123 – Joan Mannick, M.D. & Nir Barzilai, M.D.: Rapamycin and metformin—longevity, immune enhancement, and COVID-19 https://peterattiamd.com/joanmannick-nirbarzilai/ https://peterattiamd.com/joanmannick-nirbarzilai/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2020 09:45:54 +0000 https://peterattiamd.com/?p=13530 “I think what the mTOR inhibitors are doing is not stopping people from getting infected [with a virus], but if you get infected, there's a better immune response and your symptoms will be milder.” — Joan Mannick

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]]> https://peterattiamd.com/joanmannick-nirbarzilai/feed/ 16 #50 – AMA #5: calcium scores, Centenarian Decathlon™, exercise, muscle glycogen, keto, and more https://peterattiamd.com/ama05/ https://peterattiamd.com/ama05/#comments Mon, 22 Apr 2019 09:45:58 +0000 https://peterattiamd.com/?p=7385 "We're really talking a completely new model, which is actually forcing your way to become a centenarian rather than just sort of gliding your way into it and therefore, I think it's going to require much more deliberate attention around what your mind and body are doing at that point and time." — Peter Attia

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]]> https://peterattiamd.com/ama05/feed/ 7 #35 – Nir Barzilai, M.D.: How to tame aging https://peterattiamd.com/nirbarzilai/ https://peterattiamd.com/nirbarzilai/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2019 10:45:30 +0000 https://peterattiamd.com/?p=6231 "I think the prevention of aging is really a good place to be. . .and I think life is going to be very different in the next decade with our advances." —Nir Barzilai

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]]> https://peterattiamd.com/nirbarzilai/feed/ 2 Calorie Restriction, Part I: What Does Restricting Calories Have to Do With Longevity? https://peterattiamd.com/what-does-restricting-calories-have-to-do-with-longevity/ https://peterattiamd.com/what-does-restricting-calories-have-to-do-with-longevity/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:00:00 +0000 https://peterattiamd.com/?p=4160 An introduction to calorie restriction.

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