Learn more about Peter Attia’s digital program
#256 ‒ The endocrine system: exploring thyroid, adrenal, and sex hormones | Peter Attia, M.D.
In this special episode of The Drive, Peter provides a comprehensive overview of the various endocrine systems: the thyroid system,…
How alcohol disrupts sleep and contributes to Alzheimer’s disease
This audio clip is from our “Ask Me Anything” with sleep expert, Matthew Walker (Part I of III), originally released…
Stress, Cortisol, and Sleep Deprivation: An Awful Feedback Loop
This audio clip is from our “Ask Me Anything” with sleep expert, Matthew Walker (Part I of III), originally released…
#163 – Layne Norton, Ph.D.: Building muscle, losing fat, and the importance of resistance training
“I always tell people, I don’t think I would’ve had the success I did in business or social media or academia if I hadn’t done weightlifting because that taught me so much about other things in life.” —Layne Norton
Qualy #89 – Cortisol and healthy aging
Today’s episode of The Qualys is from podcast #31 – Navdeep Chandel, Ph.D.: metabolism, mitochondria, and metformin in health and…
#69 – Ronesh Sinha, M.D.: Insights into the manifestation of metabolic disease in a patient population predisposed to metabolic syndrome, and what it teaches us more broadly
“The way we raise our kids early on might actually set a pattern for how much of an accelerated life, or how much of a stressed out nervous system they might have later on. . . a lot of the behavioral patterns that we’re instilling in our kids are kind of setting the foundation for insulin resistance and inflammation early on.” —Ronesh Sinha
Cortisol and cross-pollination
Cortisol is a hormone I’ve been paying a lot more attention to of late.
Is there an optimal window of time-restricted feeding?
Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dine like a pauper?
#58 – AMA with sleep expert, Matthew Walker, Ph.D.: Strategies for sleeping more, sleeping better, and avoiding things that are disrupting sleep
“[Sleep] is like that master volume button on a mixing deck that you see in the studio. You can manipulate each one of those dials, or you can go to the far left and just move that one dial…and all of the other levers seem to move with it.” — Matthew Walker
#51 – Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D.: The pervasive effect of stress – is it killing you?
“The [stress response] system has been serving vertebrates, doing a lot of help for them for an awful long time, and it’s only been a very recent modification to instead secrete [cortisol] in response to thinking about taxes.” —Robert Sapolsky