Learn more about Peter Attia’s digital program
#199 – Running, overcoming challenges, and finding success | Ryan Hall
“You just got to bring yourself back to being present in this moment, and there’s always enough to get you through this moment.” —Ryan Hall
#198 – Eye health—everything you need to know | Steven Dell, M.D.
“Do eye surgeons need to go to medical school? Yes, because we diagnose brain tumors. We find things that are systemic diseases that have ocular manifestations.” —Steven Dell
#197 – The science of obesity & how to improve nutritional epidemiology | David Allison, Ph.D.
“How much does obesity kill you because it stigmatizes you and it creates some stress?” —David Allison
#196 – AMA #32: Exercise, squats, deadlifts, BFR, and TRT
“You have to differentiate between signal and noise. . .it’s easy to say testosterone causes heart disease just like it’s easy to say estrogen causes breast cancer. But if you’re actually going to go through all of the data. . .I think it becomes very difficult to make that case.” —Peter Attia
#195 – Freedom, PTSD, war, and life through an evolutionary lens | Sebastian Junger
“If you experience that [equality of all people], you do not want to give it up. And that’s one of the things that soldiers experience in combat with each other in a platoon.” – Sebastian Junger
#194 – How fructose drives metabolic disease | Rick Johnson, M.D.
“Fructose turns out to have been meant to be this wonderful system for survival, but in our culture with the amount of sugar in foods that we are eating (that either provide sugar or can be turned into fructose), this pathway has become hazardous.” —Rick Johnson
#193 – AMA #31: Heart rate variability (HRV), alcohol, sleep, and more
In this “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) episode, Peter and Bob first answer a variety of questions related to heart rate…
#192 – COVID Part 2: Masks, long COVID, boosters, mandates, treatments, and more
“I think people are starving out there for honesty on this topic that’s not tribal” – Marty Makary
#191 – Revolutionizing our understanding of mental illness with optogenetics | Karl Deisseroth M.D., Ph.D.
“It turns out that behavioral states that mammals have, they can be cleanly broken apart into these features, and we could show that with optogenetics.” —Karl Deisseroth
#190 – Paul Conti, M.D.: How to heal from trauma and break the cycle of shame
“Trauma changes the instrument that we use to understand our trauma. It’s changing our brain.” —Paul Conti