Peter Attia

There aren't like amazing apps that do this, but a really good clinician who's well-versed in how to do cognitive testing can measure and assess your performance on those domains.

we still have to accept the fact that as we age, our cognitive performance declines just as our physical performance does.

So my VO2 max is getting lower by decade, my muscle mass, my strength, these are decreasing by decade, and so too is my cognitive performance.

So then the question becomes, what can I do to offset that?

What I really want people to understand is all the supplement stuff you're doing is a little bit of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

You earn the right to worry about that stuff once you have the stuff that provides 90% of cognitive function taken care of.

And that's going to come down to sleep, exercise, nutrition, intellectual and social engagement.

and learning.

These are the pillars of maintaining cognitive function.

And if you never took a supplement for the rest of your life, but you adhered to maximizing your participation on those domains, you would be incredible.

Correct.

So Element is a company that makes an electrolyte drink.

It's effectively sodium chloride salt with flavoring

This was actually a topic I was never really interested in until four years ago when I had a couple of repeated bouts of lightheadedness, including one that resulted in a really significant face plant that required multiple stitches to a bunch of lacerations across my face.

And when I got home, this happened while I was traveling, and my doctor took my blood pressure and sort of confirmed what I had always known, which was I had sort of low blood pressure.

And it was exacerbated by things like traveling or, for example, if I gave blood or if I was exercising a lot.

The obvious solution to that is to hydrate more.

And that got me really deep down the rabbit hole of hydration.

I basically bought every product on the market.

And the one that I liked that I found palatable enough was Element.