Peter Attia, M.D.

Thank you.

A lot of incredibly cowardly people that I'm sure at one point you felt were friends and colleagues completely sat by silently as a minority mob went after you.

How are you recovering from that experience?

So given how, in many ways, successful you were as a professor, how much your undergraduate students loved you, it's certainly one vehicle through which you can communicate this passion.

Do you see yourself going back to that situation?

Do you see yourself winding up back at a different university one day?

Or do you feel like the scars are sufficient that you don't feel like being in that arena again?

Would you see yourself back?

Yeah.

I think I'm sure a lot of people can relate to that because anybody who's put every bit of themselves, take an example like your first love, the first person you fall in love with, if they break your heart, you're going to sit there and say, that wasn't worth it.

Like, I'm not doing that again.

The bliss of that experience wasn't worth the pain I'm experiencing today.

And I'm not going to sit here and suggest that you have to do it again because of, look at all the students you were able to help because there's other ways to do it.

And you're obviously writing another book.

And so the truth of the matter is being on a podcast probably reaches more people than you would reach in 10 years of teaching.

What is your next book about?

Are you comfortable talking about what the subject is?

I completely agree.

I mean, I joke about this with my wife all the time, right?

The reaction she has to a naturally aspirated V8 engine screaming at 10,000 RPM versus my reaction.