The Peter Attia Drive Podcast 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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#338 ‒ Peter’s takeaways on aerobic exercise and VO2 max, insulin resistance, rising healthcare costs, treating children with autism and ADHD, and strength training | Quarterly Podcast Summary #4

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

“You need to tackle the foe [type 2 diabetes] by addressing more than one leg of the stool at a time.” —Peter Attia

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#337 – Insulin resistance masterclass: The full body impact of metabolic dysfunction and prevention, diagnosis, and treatment | Ralph DeFronzo, M.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 05:15:00 +0000

“The pathophysiology will always tell you the truth.” —Ralph DeFronzo

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#336 – AMA #68: Fasting, well-balanced diets, alcohol, exercise for busy people, wearables, emotional health, assessing cardiovascular health, and more

Peter Attia — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:15:00 +0000

“It's the calorie restriction that provides the greatest benefit. How you go about achieving it is really a function of your style.” —Peter Attia

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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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#332 – AMA #67: Microplastics, PFAS, and phthalates: understanding health risks and a framework for minimizing exposure and mitigating risk

Peter Attia — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 05:15:00 +0000

"As food and beverages undergo more and more processing, it accumulates more and more plastics, probably another argument for limiting processed foods." —Peter Attia

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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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#329 ‒ Special AMA: Peter on exercise, important labs, building good habits, promising longevity research, and more

Peter Attia — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000

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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328 – AMA #66: Optimizing nutrition for health and longevity: myth of a “best” diet, complexities of nutrition science, and practical steps for building a sustainable diet

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

“There is no discipline of science or engineering for which our magnitude of certainty is so high relative to such poor quality data.” —Peter Attia

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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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#326 – AMA #65: Red light therapy: promising applications, mixed evidence, and impact on health and aging

Peter Attia — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:45:00 +0000

“Most people who are proponents of red light therapy point to cytochrome c oxidase (CCO) as the main target, and therefore the mediating effect of the biologic impact of red light.” —Peter Attia

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#325 ‒ Peter’s key takeaways on bone health, calorie restriction and energy balance, dopamine and addiction, gene editing, and testosterone therapy safety with a prostate cancer diagnosis | Quarterly Podcast Summary #3

Peter Attia — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 09:45:29 +0000

“I suspect that that will be the challenge of the next decade or two. It'll be less about what is technically possible and more about what is ethically defensible.” —Peter Attia

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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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#320 – AMA 64: New insights on GLP-1 agonists (Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro) – efficacy, benefits, risks, and considerations in the rapidly evolving weight-loss drug landscape

Peter Attia — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 08:45:03 +0000

"If you're taking these drugs, really, really pay attention to your protein consumption and your resistance training. . .that's obviously going to be an important part of being on the right side of that body composition curve.” — Peter Attia

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#319 ‒ Peter’s key takeaways on liver health, heart rate variability, AI in medicine, klotho, and lactate metabolism | Quarterly Podcast Summary #2

Peter Attia — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:45:49 +0000

“In humans, klotho is indeed a longevity gene. More klotho from the gene means longer life, better cognition. Take it away, shorter life, worse cognition.” —Peter Attia

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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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#316 – AMA #63: A guide for hair loss: causes, treatments, transplants, and sex-specific considerations

Peter Attia — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 08:45:36 +0000

“Genetic sensitivity to DHT appears far more important than absolute DHT level. But. . .lowering DHT is a very important strategy to either preventing or halting hair loss.” —Peter Attia

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