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Dr. Peter Attia

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#181 Peter Attia - The Science of Longevity, Nutrition Myths and Medicine 3.0

The medical system is better off because you're now going to cost the system less money by not having a heart attack or a stroke. And they want to reward the physician by saying, here's an extra $100 because you managed to get Sean's blood pressure down. So everybody agrees that that's kind of a good system.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#181 Peter Attia - The Science of Longevity, Nutrition Myths and Medicine 3.0

The medical system is better off because you're now going to cost the system less money by not having a heart attack or a stroke. And they want to reward the physician by saying, here's an extra $100 because you managed to get Sean's blood pressure down. So everybody agrees that that's kind of a good system.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#181 Peter Attia - The Science of Longevity, Nutrition Myths and Medicine 3.0

But when you now go into Medicaid and you apply that to doctors who are getting paid to vaccinate kidsβ€” Well, a couple of things change, right? The first thing is we don't know the answer to the question you asked. Like, I don't know. I certainly don't know the answer. And I say this with humility. I don't know that anybody does.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#181 Peter Attia - The Science of Longevity, Nutrition Myths and Medicine 3.0

But when you now go into Medicaid and you apply that to doctors who are getting paid to vaccinate kidsβ€” Well, a couple of things change, right? The first thing is we don't know the answer to the question you asked. Like, I don't know. I certainly don't know the answer. And I say this with humility. I don't know that anybody does.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#181 Peter Attia - The Science of Longevity, Nutrition Myths and Medicine 3.0

But when you now go into Medicaid and you apply that to doctors who are getting paid to vaccinate kidsβ€” Well, a couple of things change, right? The first thing is we don't know the answer to the question you asked. Like, I don't know. I certainly don't know the answer. And I say this with humility. I don't know that anybody does.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#181 Peter Attia - The Science of Longevity, Nutrition Myths and Medicine 3.0

I don't know that anybody knows we should just be ramming all the vaccines in the kids on day one to maximize them and make sure compliance is the highest versus can we take a more nuanced approach and spread them out? So right out of the gate, you take away some certainty So you lose a bit of the moral high ground to be able to say, I should be paying you to do this.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#181 Peter Attia - The Science of Longevity, Nutrition Myths and Medicine 3.0

I don't know that anybody knows we should just be ramming all the vaccines in the kids on day one to maximize them and make sure compliance is the highest versus can we take a more nuanced approach and spread them out? So right out of the gate, you take away some certainty So you lose a bit of the moral high ground to be able to say, I should be paying you to do this.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#181 Peter Attia - The Science of Longevity, Nutrition Myths and Medicine 3.0

I don't know that anybody knows we should just be ramming all the vaccines in the kids on day one to maximize them and make sure compliance is the highest versus can we take a more nuanced approach and spread them out? So right out of the gate, you take away some certainty So you lose a bit of the moral high ground to be able to say, I should be paying you to do this.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#181 Peter Attia - The Science of Longevity, Nutrition Myths and Medicine 3.0

Whereas in as much as you can have certainty in biology, I have pretty high certainty that if your blood pressure is normal, you're way better off than if your blood pressure is high. So that, again, becomes problematic, but you can see how it can get twisted into something that it's really not.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#181 Peter Attia - The Science of Longevity, Nutrition Myths and Medicine 3.0

Whereas in as much as you can have certainty in biology, I have pretty high certainty that if your blood pressure is normal, you're way better off than if your blood pressure is high. So that, again, becomes problematic, but you can see how it can get twisted into something that it's really not.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#181 Peter Attia - The Science of Longevity, Nutrition Myths and Medicine 3.0

Whereas in as much as you can have certainty in biology, I have pretty high certainty that if your blood pressure is normal, you're way better off than if your blood pressure is high. So that, again, becomes problematic, but you can see how it can get twisted into something that it's really not.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#181 Peter Attia - The Science of Longevity, Nutrition Myths and Medicine 3.0

Oh, that's a very, very sophisticated erudite question. I think a couple of things. I think one, look at people who are comfortable talking about uncertainty. So the more that a person is willing to speak in uncertainty, Versus certainty. I tend to believe them a little bit more, right?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#181 Peter Attia - The Science of Longevity, Nutrition Myths and Medicine 3.0

Oh, that's a very, very sophisticated erudite question. I think a couple of things. I think one, look at people who are comfortable talking about uncertainty. So the more that a person is willing to speak in uncertainty, Versus certainty. I tend to believe them a little bit more, right?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#181 Peter Attia - The Science of Longevity, Nutrition Myths and Medicine 3.0

Oh, that's a very, very sophisticated erudite question. I think a couple of things. I think one, look at people who are comfortable talking about uncertainty. So the more that a person is willing to speak in uncertainty, Versus certainty. I tend to believe them a little bit more, right?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#181 Peter Attia - The Science of Longevity, Nutrition Myths and Medicine 3.0

So when a person tells you that it's their way Like you have to eat this food and it's like it's this is anything that's not this is gonna kill you but like Versus well, we didn't we you know, maybe maybe not like so so so that's one thing and then I think the second thing is you always have to mine for what a person's conflicts are financial conflicts, so

The Shawn Ryan Show
#181 Peter Attia - The Science of Longevity, Nutrition Myths and Medicine 3.0

So when a person tells you that it's their way Like you have to eat this food and it's like it's this is anything that's not this is gonna kill you but like Versus well, we didn't we you know, maybe maybe not like so so so that's one thing and then I think the second thing is you always have to mine for what a person's conflicts are financial conflicts, so

The Shawn Ryan Show
#181 Peter Attia - The Science of Longevity, Nutrition Myths and Medicine 3.0

So when a person tells you that it's their way Like you have to eat this food and it's like it's this is anything that's not this is gonna kill you but like Versus well, we didn't we you know, maybe maybe not like so so so that's one thing and then I think the second thing is you always have to mine for what a person's conflicts are financial conflicts, so

The Shawn Ryan Show
#181 Peter Attia - The Science of Longevity, Nutrition Myths and Medicine 3.0

i think it should be required that anyone who describes themselves as you know a health influencer slash whatever like whatever you call people in this category they should all have a clear page of financial disclosures it should be unambiguous exactly what what companies have they invested in do they receive pay for promotion do they receive financial kickback or remuneration when they talk about a product

The Shawn Ryan Show
#181 Peter Attia - The Science of Longevity, Nutrition Myths and Medicine 3.0

i think it should be required that anyone who describes themselves as you know a health influencer slash whatever like whatever you call people in this category they should all have a clear page of financial disclosures it should be unambiguous exactly what what companies have they invested in do they receive pay for promotion do they receive financial kickback or remuneration when they talk about a product

The Shawn Ryan Show
#181 Peter Attia - The Science of Longevity, Nutrition Myths and Medicine 3.0

i think it should be required that anyone who describes themselves as you know a health influencer slash whatever like whatever you call people in this category they should all have a clear page of financial disclosures it should be unambiguous exactly what what companies have they invested in do they receive pay for promotion do they receive financial kickback or remuneration when they talk about a product