How to incorporate high-intensity training (Zone 5) to increase VO2 max and optimize fitness
This video clip is from episode #201 – Deep dive back into Zone 2 with Iñigo San-Millán, Ph.D. (Pt. 2), originally…
#201 – Deep dive back into Zone 2 | Iñigo San-Millán, Ph.D. (Pt. 2)
“You can accomplish very important mitochondrial adaptations and very important metabolic adaptations by exercising one hour.” —Iñigo San-Millán
Peter Attia on How Insulin Resistance Manifests in the Muscle
“If you’re in the business of wanting to live the healthiest life you can live, which means longer and better, you’ve got to be insulin sensitive, full stop.” — Peter Attia
#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
#184 – AMA #29: GLP-1 Agonists – The Future of Treating Obesity?
“Getting deeper into how this drug works has certainly made me appreciate its power.” —Peter Attia
#180 – AMA #28: All things testosterone and testosterone replacement therapy
“There were countless other studies to look at, but they all basically point in the same direction, which is testosterone replacement therapy improves lean mass, reduces fat mass, improves strength.” —Peter Attia
Are continuous glucose monitors a waste of time for people without diabetes?
Some experts suggest CGMs are useless for nondiabetics. I disagree.
#165 – AMA #24: Deep dive into blood glucose: why it matters, important metrics to track, and superior insights from a CGM
“Hyperinsulinemia on an [oral glucose tolerance test], even in the presence of normoglycemia, is the canary in the coal mine.” —Peter Attia
#162 – Sarah Hallberg, D.O., M.S.: Challenging the status quo of treating metabolic disease, and a personal journey through a grim cancer diagnosis
“For a disease that everyone thought was chronic and progressive, to see people recover from it is quite astounding.” —Sarah Hallberg
#155 – Chris Sonnenday, M.D.: The history, challenges, and gift of organ transplantation
“Knowing that their loved one’s organs live on in another individual and saved their life is the only good thing about what was otherwise the worst day of their lives … I think it’s important for people to hear that it can be a transformative gift.” — Chris Sonnenday