The LIFE-EXTENSION Doctor: "The ONE thing that's increasing your chance of early-death by 170.8%!"

Going from zero activity to just 90 minutes a week is about a 15% reduction in all cause mortality.

Jesus Christ.

Dr. Peter Attia-

World-renowned physician.

The go-to doctor for anything performance or longevity related.

He has the secret for living a long, healthy and happy life.

Most people listening to us are gonna die from cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes. If we want to really figure out a way to live longer, we need a totally different playbook.

How early do some of these diseases begin?

The minute you're born. We only really think about the risk over a 10-year time horizon. As a 30-year-old, you don't get excited about exercise and your sleep, but there's a 400% higher risk of dying in the coming year when you compare the fittest 2.5% to someone at the bottom 25%.

In the coming year?

And then once you hit the age of 65, if you fall and you break your hip, there's a 15 to 30% chance you will be dead within the next 12 months.

Really?

You have to realize you're taking this for granted.

Shit. When you talk about the deterioration of health, you have these three categories. Emotional health deterioration. Why have you included that?

Because despite being very physically healthy, I was not living a good life. I was in such an awful cycle of anger, workaholism that I don't think my marriage would've survived. I realized, I don't want to be this person and lose my kids. I don't think I could've survived it, and I'm sure many people listening to us can relate.

Were you able to discover the root cause of that?

More than that, I was able to get rid of it.

How?

So what you really need to do is-

What are the biggest misconceptions in your mind about weight loss?

I have thought a lot about this, so-

Dr. Peter Attia. He is the man that wrote the book on how to live a long, happy and healthy life, and he argues that everything we know about health and what that actually means, health of the mind, the body and the emotions, is wrong and outdated. He says that there's disease growing in you and me right now, but the problem is because we can't see it, we're doing nothing about it. Dr. Peter's work turns the light on. It allows you to see that in many cases, inaction now will increase your chance of disease and a much shorter life by 70%, 170%, and in some cases, if we don't take action now, by 400%. I've had lots of conversations on this podcast about health, about diet, about all of these things, but for many of you, this one will be the one that changes your life. This will be the one that makes you ask some difficult but important questions about your health and what health means for you. I walked away from this conversation realizing that if I don't take action now, I'm going to be forced to take action then, and I can unequivocally say that this conversation has changed my life. I have a suspicion it's gonna change yours. (instrumental music) Peter, Dr. Peter, you talk about so much in your work. I've been through every interview you've done, your book, other conversations you've had. You talk about a lot, so many things that I'm absolutely fascinated by. My first question for you is, what is your mission and why are you doing this?