Guest Episodes Archives - Peter Attia

#339 – Unpacking trauma: How early wounds shape behavior and the path toward healing | Jeff English

Peter Attia — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 04:15:00 +0000

“My coping skills live in a part of the brain that gets hijacked when the emotional brain takes over, and this doesn't always have to be about trauma." —Jeff English

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#335 ‒ The science of resistance training, building muscle, and anabolic steroid use in bodybuilding | Mike Israetel, Ph.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 04:15:00 +0000

“Probably the biggest return on investment the average person can make is to train for roughly half an hour two times a week, Monday and Thursday.” —Mike Israetel

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#334 – Cardiovascular disease, the number one killer: development, biomarkers, apoB, cholesterol, brain health, and more | Tom Dayspring, M.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 05:15:00 +0000

“Cholesterol is almost certainly the most important molecule in the brain.” —Tom Dayspring

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#333 ‒ Longevity roundtable — the science of aging, geroprotective molecules, lifestyle interventions, challenges in research, and more | Steven Austad, Ph.D., Matt Kaeberlein, Ph.D., Richard Miller, M.D., Ph.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 05:15:00 +0000

“The notion that aging is not malleable, though wrong and provably wrong, is still the overwhelming opinion even of reasonably educated scientists and certainly of the lay public.” ‒ Rich Miller

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#331 ‒ Optimizing endurance performance: metrics, nutrition, lactate, and more insights from elite performers | Olav Aleksander Bu (Pt. 2)

Peter Attia — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 05:15:00 +0000

“Sometimes it makes it more universally easy to understand if we think of what kind of sport we do as a function of intensity and duration.” —Olav Aleksander Bu

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#330 – Autism, ADHD, and Anxiety: Understanding the rise in autism and a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and treatment of each condition in children | Trenna Sutcliffe, M.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 11:17:47 +0000

"I really believe in bridging education, mental health, and medical. If you want to make an impact on child well-being and health.”‒ Trenna Sutcliffe

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#327 – Choices, costs, and challenges in US healthcare: insurance intricacies, drug pricing, economic impacts, and potential reforms | Saum Sutaria, M.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000

“The US healthcare system in many ways is a story, an optimistic story of well-intended policies that now are questioned based upon the way the expenditures have increased.” —Saum Sutaria

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#324 ‒ Metabolism, energy balance, and aging: How diet, calorie restriction, and macronutrients influence longevity and metabolic health | Eric Ravussin, Ph.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 09:45:31 +0000

“I still believe that a nutritional approach to weight loss without physical activity or exercise prescribed is not a good strategy. We should implement both and try to have people enjoying the exercise.” —Eric Ravussin

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#323 – CRISPR and the future of gene editing: scientific advances, genetic therapies, disease treatment potential, and ethical considerations | Feng Zhang, Ph.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:45:13 +0000

“One of the promises of gene editing is that it can provide a single treatment that is a cure for the disease.” —Feng Zhang

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#322 – Bone health for life: building strong bones, preventing age-related loss, and reversing osteoporosis with evidence-based exercise | Belinda Beck, Ph.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 08:45:51 +0000

“Bone is a ‘use it or lose it’ tissue.” —Belinda Beck

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#321 – Dopamine and addiction: navigating pleasure, pain, and the path to recovery | Anna Lembke, M.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 08:45:48 +0000

“When we do things intentionally that are physically or mentally challenging for us, our body senses injury and up regulates feel good neurotransmitters. . .so we get our dopamine indirectly by paying for it upfront.” —Anna Lembke

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#318 ‒ Cycling phenom and Tour de France champion Tadej Pogačar reveals his training strategies, on-bike nutrition, and future aspirations

Peter Attia — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 08:45:50 +0000

“You see all these three things—the speed, heart rate, and power. Then you see how you feel and which zone are you really in.” —Tadej Pogačar

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#317 ‒ Reforming medicine: uncovering blind spots, challenging the norm, and embracing innovation | Marty Makary, M.D., M.P.H.

Peter Attia — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 08:45:24 +0000

“One of the most important qualities of a physician is humility, knowing your limits, and having the self-awareness that you could be wrong.” —Marty Makary

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#315 ‒ Life after near-death: a new perspective on living, dying, and the afterlife | Sebastian Junger

Peter Attia — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 08:00:38 +0000

“I was allowed to go to the precipice, look over the edge, and then allowed to come back." —Sebastian Junger

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#314 ‒ Rethinking nutrition science: the evolving landscape of obesity treatment, GLP-1 agonists, protein, and the need for higher research standards | David Allison, Ph.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 08:45:11 +0000

“I think we really need a radically different public health paradigm.” —David Allison

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#310 – The relationship between testosterone and prostate cancer, testosterone replacement therapy, and tools for predicting cancer aggressiveness and guiding therapy | Ted Schaeffer, M.D., Ph.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 08:45:47 +0000

“There's no evidence that says exogenous T replacement causes acceleration or propagation of someone's prostate cancer.” —Ted Schaeffer

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#309 ‒ AI in medicine: its potential to revolutionize disease prediction, diagnosis, and outcomes, causes for concern in medicine and beyond, and more | Isaac Kohane, M.D., Ph.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 08:45:54 +0000

“What I'm excited about is the opportunity for new businesses and new ways of delivering to patients insights that are data-driven.” —Zak Kohane

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#305 ‒ Heart rate variability: how to measure, interpret, and utilize HRV for training and health optimization | Joel Jamieson

Peter Attia — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 08:45:33 +0000

“The older you get… you have to be much more acutely aware of what your body can and can't do. And that's part of what HRV can help you understand.” —Joel Jamieson

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#303 – A breakthrough in Alzheimer’s disease: the promising potential of klotho for brain health, cognitive decline, and as a therapeutic tool for Alzheimer’s disease | Dena Dubal, M.D., Ph.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 27 May 2024 08:45:09 +0000

“I have this dream that people might be able someday to benefit from klotho, this factor that naturally circulates in our body, that helps with longevity, that helps with other organ systems and enhances the brain.” —Dena Dubal

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#302 – Confronting a metabolic epidemic: understanding liver health and how to prevent, diagnose, and manage MAFLD and liver disease | Julia Wattacheril, M.D., M.P.H.

Peter Attia — Mon, 20 May 2024 08:45:45 +0000

“The average person you're seeing with MASLD is much more at risk for cardiovascular-related outcomes and malignancy-related outcomes from their metabolic health than they are for liver-related risks.” —Julia Wattacheril

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Special episode with Dax Shepard: F1 and the 30th anniversary of Ayrton Senna’s death

Peter Attia — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 08:45:38 +0000

“Senna lived 10 lives in his 34 years. And not only that, he's one of the few people who still matters in his death.” —Peter Attia

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#299 ‒ Optimizing muscle protein synthesis: the crucial impact of protein quality and quantity, and the key role of resistance training | Luc van Loon, Ph.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 08:45:32 +0000

"It's the exercise that makes you respond way more to the same or less amount of protein that you ingest.” —Luc van Loon

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#296 ‒ Foot health: preventing and treating common injuries, enhancing strength and mobility, picking footwear, and more | Courtney Conley, D.C.

Peter Attia — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 08:45:00 +0000

“Toe weakness is the single biggest predictor of falls when we age.” —Courtney Conley

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#294 ‒ Peak athletic performance: How to measure it and how to train for it from the coach of the most elite athletes on earth | Olav Aleksander Bu

Peter Attia — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 08:45:37 +0000

Olav Aleksander Bu is an internationally renowned sports scientist acclaimed for his coaching prowess with elite athletes spanning a diverse range of sports disciplines. In this episode, Olav delves deep into the intricacies of VO2 max and its profound impact on performance. They explore the relationship between VO2 max and ATP production, energy efficiency, and…

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