Dr. Peter Attia
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5,258 appearances
36 recordings
6 series
first heard Jan 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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And it's not like I don't eat salt. I make zero effort to restrict sodium in my diet. But clearly I was just exercising too much. You know, I mean, especially living in Texas, like when I'm exercising outdoors, I'm sweating like crazy. So it's like you just got to get more salt, man.
So I just went, I literally then did a super deep dive on hydration and realized that there's basically two ways to maximize hydration. Either you consume water with a high enough, not just a high enough, with the absolute correct concentration of glucose in it. And the correct concentration is between 5% and 6%.
So that's 50 to 60 grams of glucose per liter of fluid will maximize water uptake through the sodium water transporter. Or you consume what's called osmotic sodium in water. Those are your two options, with the glucose one being slightly better. And so what I realized is, look, I don't exercise long enough anymore to justify it.
And the only workout I do a week that is intense enough to justify it is that VO2 max one, where I actually am using glucose in water. But for the rest of my workouts, I don't need it. I just need sodium and water. And then I just went through every product on the market. Like literally went to Amazon, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, order every one of them.
And realized at the end of the day, it's a commodity product. Get the one that tastes the best because that's the one you're going to have to suck down every day.
Maybe just the idea that it's really tempting in the world I live in to want to find single sources of problems. Right. So there's always a boogeyman. And I think, unfortunately, the entire landscape of health influencing and social media has created a very unhelpful narrative around many of these things. And so-
There's an effect called the Dunning-Kruger effect, which can be sort of put into a cartoon where it shows experience on the x-axis and confidence on the y-axis. So you've seen this graph, I'm sure, where it starts out like it just skyrockets up.
to what's called the peak of stupidity and then it kind of comes down into the valley of humility and then as you become more and more of an expert you gradually rise right so it's this idea of like the deeper you go out from shore the further from shore the deeper the water gets and you and most of what you're what what i'm sure your audience is going to be exposed to because we all are if we're on social media or whatever is like people preaching from the peak of mount stupidity
And so I think maybe the thing to be thinking about is like what are the signs of that, right? And it's usually people that are like there's one thing that is the thing, right? Like it's this additive in food or it's this particular oil or it's this sugar or it's this, that. And it's like the truth of the matter is it isn't one thing.
Like it's really, really complicated and it's hard to talk about things that are complicated and we tend to – Just want to focus on one thing. And I've been guilty of this myself. If I look at stuff I was writing 15 years ago, I'm like, man, you really oversimplified that too much. Like you over indexed on that and you ignored this thing.
And so I just think that, you know, try to identify people out there who are talking about things in a nuanced way. And you're generally going to be closer to the direction of reality.
Well, on my podcast, it's easy because, again, the nature of my podcast is super inquisitive. So it's just very easy to push back. And sometimes I don't. Sometimes I'll – you know, I was recently interviewing somebody, and they made a comment, and I just knew it was wrong. But I was like, you know –
I'll make an editorial comment later about this for the audience to understand that he's confusing cause and effect. And I didn't push back. And afterwards, I thought I probably should have. I probably should have pushed back on what he said a little bit. But again, on my podcast, it's easy. I think the bigger issue is when people send me links to podcasts, like, what do you think of this?
And I have to go through and explain why what this person said is wrong. Completely wrong. I mean, just completely unfounded in any scientific basis whatsoever. But they're a very compelling speaker. And so I get it. Like, I get why, you know, that you would, you know, as my friend, send that to me with concern.
I think our website probably, so Peter Attia MD, the website will probably direct people to all the different sort of places where we have unbelievable amounts of free information. So we have a newsletter that comes out every single week. It's free. It's really valuable. People, you know, the open rate on that is through the roof because it's not junk.
Like it's, we're putting something in your inbox every single Sunday that you're going to want to read about the exact topics you're asking. So.
Because I've been dealing with that for a long – I've been dealing with something for a couple of weeks that is incredibly frightening. But I think I've finally worked up the courage to do it. But I can't speak about it, unfortunately.
At least not yet. I will be able to one day. There will be a day when I will be able to tell this story. And it will be one of the most important decisions I've ever made in my life.
Hey everyone, welcome to The Drive Podcast. I'm your host, Peter Attia. This podcast, my website, and my weekly newsletter all focus on the goal of translating the science of longevity into something accessible for everyone. Our goal is to provide the best content in health and wellness, and we've established a great team of analysts to make this happen.
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