Ketosis Archives - Peter Attia

#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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#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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#313 – AMA #62: Protein’s impact on appetite and weight management, and uric acid’s link to disease and how to manage levels

Peter Attia — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 08:45:11 +0000

"The body responds in pretty significant ways to alterations in protein availability.” —Peter Attia

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#306 – AMA #60: preventing cognitive decline, nutrition myths, lowering blood glucose, apoB, and blood pressure, and more

Peter Attia — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 08:45:49 +0000

“Metabolic health, first and foremost, is the goal of nutrition.” —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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#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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#235 ‒ Training principles for mass and strength, changing views on nutrition, creatine supplementation, and more | Layne Norton, Ph.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 09:45:32 +0000

“Most 40 year olds, 50 year olds, they have pain anyway. So I'd rather be strong and have pain than be weak and have pain.” —Layne Norton

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#227 – AMA #40: Body composition, protein, time-restricted feeding, fasting, DEXA scans, and more

Peter Attia — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 08:45:47 +0000

“We don't want to be consuming protein for energy purposes at all. We want to be consuming protein for muscle protein synthesis.” —Peter Attia

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#224 ‒ Dietary protein: amount needed, ideal timing, quality, and more | Don Layman, Ph.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 08:45:02 +0000

“We want weight loss, but we don't want people to lose any lean mass. Especially if they're adults.” —Don Layman

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#222 ‒ How nutrition impacts longevity | Matt Kaeberlein, Ph.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 08:45:12 +0000

“It's really important that we be willing to change our beliefs about nutrition and other aspects of health as more data comes in.” —Matt Kaeberlein

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Different effects of fat- vs. carbohydrate-restriction on neural reward signaling

Peter Attia — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 11:00:32 +0000

“A calorie is a calorie” seems like a simple and obvious statement. But do different macronutrients vary in their ability to drive obesity? A recent study by Dr. Kevin Hall and colleagues provides new clues – and likely new fodder for debate.

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The five main tools for managing blood glucose numbers

Peter Attia — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 13:00:17 +0000

This clip is from AMA #26: Continuous glucose monitors, zone 2 training, and a framework for interventions, originally released on August 23, 2021.

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How fasting can impact sleep

Peter Attia — Tue, 31 May 2022 14:52:39 +0000

This audio clip is from our sleep series with Matthew Walker, Ph.D. — episode #127 – fasting, gut health, blue light, caffeine, REM sleep, and more. This episode originally aired on September 7, 2020.

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Peter Attia on mitigating and reversing insulin resistance with nutrition

Peter Attia — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 12:00:25 +0000

This clip is from “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) episode #17, originally released on November 9, 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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Ketogenic Diets: Not For Everyone?

Peter Attia — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 06:00:05 +0000

Elevated blood lipids on a high fat, low carb diet

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Is alternate-day fasting superior to calorie restriction for fat loss in lean adults?

Peter Attia — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 09:45:55 +0000

A recent study suggests ADF is no magic bullet

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#167 – Gary Taubes: Bad science and challenging the conventional wisdom of obesity

Peter Attia — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 09:45:04 +0000

“Doing a background analysis is the hard, relentless, rigorous grunt work of science. It's endless and thankless, because if you do it right, all you'll do is prove that you were wrong all along.” —Gary Taubes

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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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#162 – Sarah Hallberg, D.O., M.S.: Challenging the status quo of treating metabolic disease, and a personal journey through a grim cancer diagnosis

Peter Attia — Mon, 17 May 2021 08:45:37 +0000

"For a disease that everyone thought was chronic and progressive, to see people recover from it is quite astounding.” —Sarah Hallberg

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#157 – AMA #22: Losing fat and gaining fat: the lessons of fat flux

Peter Attia — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:45:10 +0000

“If we didn't understand fat flux, there would be no flux capacitor and Marty might still actually be in the past.” —Peter Attia

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Time-restricted eating: efficacy versus effectiveness

Peter Attia — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 11:45:48 +0000

What happens when people are prescribed a treatment vs what happens when people take the treatment are two different questions.

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#120 – AMA with Dom D’Agostino, Ph.D., Part II of II: Ketosis for cancer and chronic disease, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and the effect of ketosis on female health

Peter Attia — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 09:45:22 +0000

"The function of the mitochondria and mitochondrial health are the ultimate mitigator of neurodegenerative diseases...just by reducing the potential for reactive oxygen species related damage." — Dom D’Agostino

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#116 – AMA with Dom D’Agostino, Ph.D., Part I of II: Ketogenic diet, exogenous ketones, and exercise

Peter Attia — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 09:45:12 +0000

"If you restore insulin sensitivity, you're better able to access and burn fat." — Dom D’Agostino

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#114 – Eileen White, Ph.D.: Autophagy, fasting, and promising new cancer therapies

Peter Attia — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 09:45:00 +0000

"I would like to translate what we've learned about the role of autophagy in cancer and that involves developing small molecules to inhibit autophagy for cancer therapy." — Eileen White

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