#772 - Dr Peter Attia - Scientifically Proven Ways To Build Muscle & Boost Longevity

If you have type 2 diabetes, your risk of neurodegenerative disease goes up significantly.

I love caffeine, although I'm not convinced I'm really getting a benefit from it. I am a very, very fast metabolizer of caffeine. So, I probably consume 300 to 400 milligrams a day. But if I don't, nothing happens. I can't appreciably tell a difference.

If you just look at clinical trials, if you just look at mechanistic studies, exercise is the best intervention for the brain. I think metabolic health and high-quality sleep would probably be next in line.

What are the things we want to do to maintain low risk for cardiovascular disease? Low burden of lipoproteins, low blood pressure, low inflammation. Those are the big, big, big 3 and metabolic health.

Healthcare is the number one cause of personal bankruptcy in the United States.

It's very difficult to cognitively perform well when you are sleep-deprived.

The other thing I try to do is set aside larger rather than smaller blocks to get work done. So I try to schedule big blocks of time early in the day that are my quality work time. So, typically, that is 7:00 to maybe 9:00 in the morning is always uninterrupted.

My limiter tends to not be the those things; it tends to be distraction and busyness and doing too many things at once. That's probably the thing that limits my capacity for high-quality work...