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Peter Attia

Disciplines:
podcasting
longevity
wellbeing/health optimization

Summary

Canadian-American physician — longevity medicine specialist — author of Outlive — host of The Drive podcast — who synthesizes the most current research on extending healthspan (quality of life in older age) and has become the most credentialed voice in the longevity medicine space.

Core Contribution

Creates the longevity medicine framework for popular audiences — Outlive's distinction between lifespan (time alive) and healthspan (quality of life), and its framework for addressing the four 'Horsemen' (cardiovascular disease, cancer, metabolic dysfunction, neurodegenerative disease) is the most rigorous popular treatment of longevity medicine.

Notable Works & Achievements

Outlive

The Drive podcast

Historical Influences

Robert Lustig Valter Longo David Sinclair

Intellectual Lineage

Toronto Queen's UniversityStanford Johns Hopkins NIH Longevity medicine practice

Contemporaries & Peers

Andrew Huberman Rhonda Patrick David Sinclair

Minds Influenced

Longevity medicine

Intellectual Posterity

Outlive The Drive Longevity medicine frameworkZone 2 training

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