Podcast Notes Playlist: Fitness Podcast Episodes featuring Peter Attia

Drive with Dr. Peter Attia: #38 - Francisco Gonzalez-Lima, Ph.D.: Advancing Alzheimer’s disease treatment and prevention – is AD actually a vascular and metabolic disease?

Podcast Notes Playlist: Fitness - September 07, 2019 22:59 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 2 ratings
Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Our knowledge of the brain surpasses any other organ yet there’s a TON that we still don’t know about it “We have not made any significant progress in Alzheimer’s disease research. This is the largest failure of the biomedical research enterprise during my lifetime....

Drive with Dr. Peter Attia: Qualy #19 - A unifying theory of aging

Podcast Notes Playlist: Fitness - September 05, 2019 22:10 - 10 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The Central Tenants of Aging (AKA what goes bonkers when you get older) Epigenetic changes Changes in cell communication Inflammation The build-up of senescent cells Protein misfolding Telomere loss Genomic instability Metabolic changes Adverse responses to ...

Drive with Dr. Peter Attia: Qualy #16 - How much does cognitive activity ward off cognitive decline?

Podcast Notes Playlist: Fitness - August 30, 2019 21:31 - 7 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Early-life risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease are different than those of mid-life and late-life “Early-life risk can be mitigated most by long-term educational attainment” In simple terms – people who go on to obtain secondary and tertiary education have a lower...

Drive with Dr. Peter Attia: Qualy #9 - The importance of exercise for brain health

Podcast Notes Playlist: Fitness - August 21, 2019 14:32 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “That’s another change in my belief system today vs. 5 or 6 years ago… 5 or 6 I didn’t think exercise was that important for longevity” – Peter It seems to be that exercise is the single most important thing you can do to preserve brain health “If you’re not active...

High Intensity Health: #267: Fasting, Autophagy & mTOR Inhibition w/ Peter Attia, MD

Podcast Notes Playlist: Fitness - June 24, 2019 19:25 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 2 ratings
Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The only two interventions that really seem to offer longevity benefits are rapamycin supplementation and some degree of fasting They both suppress mTOR (mechanistic target of rapamycin) and in turn increase autophagy Autophagy is the process by which cells eat the...