Why is stability an essential component of longevity? | Peter Attia, M.D.

#311 ‒ Longevity 101: a foundational guide to Peter’s frameworks for longevity, and understanding CVD, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, nutrition, exercise, sleep, and more

Peter Attia — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 08:45:32 +0000

“I would say three-quarters of the benefits you can get towards a longer life, come solely from pursuing better health.” —Peter Attia

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#307 ‒ Exercise for aging people: where to begin, and how to minimize risk while maximizing potential | Peter Attia, M.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 08:45:27 +0000

“The name of the game is play the game and stay in the game forever. And so we are really looking to minimize injury here and we're looking to minimize burnout.” —Peter Attia

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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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#287 ‒ Lower back pain: causes, treatment, and prevention of lower back injuries and pain | Stuart McGill, Ph.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 09:45:38 +0000

“All I did was learn from the best weightlifters in the world, people who know how to move load, learn what the efficiency was and turn it into a hack to change a person's life.” —Stuart McGill

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#285 – AMA #55: Exercise: longevity-focused training, goal setting, improving deficiencies, managing emotional stress, and more

Peter Attia — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 09:45:54 +0000

“Nothing comes close to having a greater impact on the length and quality of your life than your training. And unfortunately, we can't put it in a pill. You’ve got to be able to do it. There's no biohack for it.” —Peter Attia

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#261 ‒ Training for The Centenarian Decathlon: zone 2, VO2 max, stability, and strength | Peter Attia, M.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 08:45:29 +0000

“I would never want anybody to come away from this thinking, ‘I'm too old to do anything about it.’ I think as long as you're breathing, you have a chance to do something about it.” —Peter Attia

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#250 ‒ Training principles for longevity | Andy Galpin, Ph.D. (PART II)

Peter Attia — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 08:45:00 +0000

“The best marathoners in the world would smash almost everyone you know in a 100-meter dash. They're blazingly fast.” —Andy Galpin

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#242 – AMA #44: Peter’s historical changes in body composition with his evolving dietary, fasting, and training protocols

Peter Attia — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 09:45:21 +0000

“Trends matter. You're treating what you see, but you're mindful of the trends.” —Peter Attia

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#232 ‒ Shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand: diagnosis, treatment, and surgery of the upper extremities | Alton Barron, M.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 09:45:42 +0000

“One should never make their clinical, especially surgical, decision-making on just an MRI.”‒ Alton Barron

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Avoiding Injury Part I: Eccentric Strength

Peter Attia — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 14:00:40 +0000

Accidental injury is among the leading causes of death in the developed world, and even when an injury itself is not directly responsible for ending one’s life, the associated debilitation can hasten the onset and progression of other health concerns.

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Exercises After Shoulder Surgery (Post-Op Week 9)

Peter Attia — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 14:19:01 +0000

As many of you know, I had shoulder surgery in March 2022. I was recently given clearance to expand my range of motion. I thought it would be helpful to film my entire week 9 post-op PT session with Kyler Brown where we walk through 11 shoulder exercises. Remember, these exercises are great even if you’re…

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#206 – Exercising for longevity: strength, stability, zone 2, zone 5, and more

Peter Attia — Mon, 09 May 2022 08:45:21 +0000

“We can do zone 2 our entire lives; we can do it safely, and it just yields enormous dividends.” —Peter Attia

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Does walking 10 minutes per day extend your life? (Hint: No.)

Peter Attia — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 14:00:20 +0000

Either I completely dozed for the past ten years, or the author of a recent news article pulled data from some farcical study. Let’s take a closer look.

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Peter on Stability — The foundation of the 4 exercise components

Peter Attia — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 12:00:51 +0000

This clip is from “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) episode #12, originally released on February 10, 2020. If you’re a member, you can now listen to this full episode on your private RSS feed or on our website. If you are not a member, learn more about the how to become a member and the benefits here.

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#163 – Layne Norton, Ph.D.: Building muscle, losing fat, and the importance of resistance training

Peter Attia — Mon, 24 May 2021 08:45:39 +0000

“I always tell people, I don't think I would've had the success I did in business or social media or academia if I hadn't done weightlifting because that taught me so much about other things in life.” —Layne Norton

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#152 – Michael Rintala, D.C.: Principles of Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS)

Peter Attia — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 09:45:16 +0000

"If you have good programming, dosing, loading, timing, recovery, and on top of that, you have amazing body awareness and cortical function, you're going to see longevity and you're going to see nice quality of movement.” –Michael Rintala

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#145 – AMA #19: Deep dive on Zone 2 training, magnesium supplementation, and how to engage with your doctor

Peter Attia — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 10:45:42 +0000

In this “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) episode, Peter and Bob take a deep dive into zone 2 training. They begin with a detailed definition of zone 2 and continue by discussing the importance of adding it to your exercise regimen. They talk about how to program zone 2 training, including intensity, frequency, and duration, and…

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#128 – Irene Davis, Ph.D.: Evolution of the foot, running injuries, and minimalist shoes

Peter Attia — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 09:45:03 +0000

"Rather than have the runners adapt to the running, they took the shoe and adapted it to the runner." — Irene Davis

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#92 – AMA #12: Strategies for longevity (which don’t require a doctor)

Peter Attia — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:45:31 +0000

“If you are interested in longevity, if you are interested in playing with your great grandkids, you want to prioritize muscle mass. Never in the history of civilization has a 90 year old said, ‘I wish I had less muscle.’” —Peter Attia

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#63 – AMA #7: Exercise framework, deadlifting, lower back pain, blood pressure, nootropics, CGM, and more

Peter Attia — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 09:45:27 +0000

“The single greatest risk to my longevity is my lower back.” —Peter Attia

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Glute Activation Series

Peter Attia — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 23:00:55 +0000

My pre-workout glute activation routine.

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How you move defines how you live, Part II

Peter Attia — Sun, 11 Jun 2017 15:16:49 +0000

In the summer of 2009 I was preparing for a swim that nobody had ever done before. Marathon swimmers are always looking for a body of water that has never been swum by someone else. The span of ocean between Catalina Island and Santa Barbara Island (SBI) seemed like a perfect spot. Four years earlier…

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How you move defines how you live

Peter Attia — Sun, 22 Jan 2017 12:29:20 +0000

My clinical interest is longevity, which is a function of lifespan and healthspan; In math parlance, longevity = f (lifespan, healthspan). Lifespan is pretty easy to define. It’s the number of years you live. Healthspan is intuitively obvious, but a bit harder to define. For simplicity, let’s agree that healthspan is a measure of how well,…

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