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#278 ‒ Breast cancer: how to catch, treat, and survive breast cancer | Harold Burstein, M.D., Ph.D.
“We’ve completely flipped the outcomes for HER2-positive breast cancer, where it has gone from one of the most feared types of breast cancer to one of the most successfully treated types of breast cancer.” —Harold Burstein
#277 ‒ Food allergies: causes, prevention, and treatment with immunotherapy | Kari Nadeau, M.D., Ph.D.
“What I love about the immune system is it can be trained, and you just need to know how to train it.” —Kari Nadeau
#276 ‒ Special episode: Peter answers questions on longevity, supplements, protein, fasting, apoB, statins, and more
“One of the most important things to understand when you are using some sort of intervention is, do you have a biomarker to know if you’re doing it correctly?” —Peter Attia
#275 – AMA #52: Hormone replacement therapy: practical applications and the role of compounding pharmacies
“The sum total of lives that have been saved due to less breast cancer as a result from the lack of HRT for the past 20 years is exactly zero.” —Peter Attia
#274 – Performance-enhancing drugs and hormones: risks, rewards, and broader implications for the public | Derek: More Plates, More Dates
“There’s no drug that’s purely selective exactly where you want and it’s perfect.” —Derek – More Plates More Dates
#273 ‒ Prostate health: common problems, cancer prevention, screening, treatment, and more | Ted Schaeffer, M.D., Ph.D.
“The faster that your PSA density rises, it is a canary in the coal mine. . .you need to do some additional evaluation.” —Ted Schaeffer
#272 ‒ Rapamycin: potential longevity benefits, surge in popularity, unanswered questions, and more | David Sabatini, M.D., Ph.D. and Matt Kaeberlein, Ph.D.
“[Rapamycin] is the most robust and reproducible drug that we know about today for impacting not only longevity, but to the extent that we can measure various metrics of healthspan in complex animals, rapamycin also seems to positively impact pretty much every aspect of health span that we measure.” —Matt Kaeberlein
#271 – AMA #51: Understanding and improving your metabolic health
“Zone 2 output is arguably the most important functional test we have of metabolic health.” —Peter Attia
#270 ‒ Journal club with Andrew Huberman: metformin as a geroprotective drug, the power of belief, and how to read scientific papers
“This paper basically addresses how our beliefs about the drugs we take impacts how they affect us at a real level, not just at a subjective level, but at a biological level.” —Andrew Huberman
#269 – Good vs. bad science: how to read and understand scientific studies
“I think epidemiology has a place, but I think the pendulum has swung a little too far, and it has been asserted as being more valuable than I think it probably is.” —Peter Attia