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Peter Attia

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Peter Attia Drive
#370 - AMA #76: Peter evaluates longevity drugs, aspirin for CVD, and strategies to improve muscle mass โ€” promising, proven, fuzzy, noise, or nonsense?

And if you continue to double down on horrible positions, you will lose the money of your LPs and ultimately you will be broke.

The Peter Attia Drive
#370 - AMA #76: Peter evaluates longevity drugs, aspirin for CVD, and strategies to improve muscle mass โ€” promising, proven, fuzzy, noise, or nonsense?

So I think that's sort of why it's a great idea to be thinking about through the lens of how an investor functions.

The Peter Attia Drive
#370 - AMA #76: Peter evaluates longevity drugs, aspirin for CVD, and strategies to improve muscle mass โ€” promising, proven, fuzzy, noise, or nonsense?

And so I think we just have to all try to do that.

The Peter Attia Drive
#370 - AMA #76: Peter evaluates longevity drugs, aspirin for CVD, and strategies to improve muscle mass โ€” promising, proven, fuzzy, noise, or nonsense?

It's hard.

The Peter Attia Drive
#370 - AMA #76: Peter evaluates longevity drugs, aspirin for CVD, and strategies to improve muscle mass โ€” promising, proven, fuzzy, noise, or nonsense?

It's hard to kill your babies.

The Peter Attia Drive
#370 - AMA #76: Peter evaluates longevity drugs, aspirin for CVD, and strategies to improve muscle mass โ€” promising, proven, fuzzy, noise, or nonsense?

But that was the expression.

The Peter Attia Drive
#370 - AMA #76: Peter evaluates longevity drugs, aspirin for CVD, and strategies to improve muscle mass โ€” promising, proven, fuzzy, noise, or nonsense?

Those were the exact words that were used when I first showed up in the lab.

The Peter Attia Drive
#370 - AMA #76: Peter evaluates longevity drugs, aspirin for CVD, and strategies to improve muscle mass โ€” promising, proven, fuzzy, noise, or nonsense?

and first started doing experiments and first started getting my data and trying to put hypotheses together and make sense of what I was seeing.

The Peter Attia Drive
#370 - AMA #76: Peter evaluates longevity drugs, aspirin for CVD, and strategies to improve muscle mass โ€” promising, proven, fuzzy, noise, or nonsense?

You can have the most beautiful, beautiful hypothesis ever, and it can be categorically slayed by ugly facts.

The Peter Attia Drive
#370 - AMA #76: Peter evaluates longevity drugs, aspirin for CVD, and strategies to improve muscle mass โ€” promising, proven, fuzzy, noise, or nonsense?

And that's paraphrasing a quote.

The Peter Attia Drive
#370 - AMA #76: Peter evaluates longevity drugs, aspirin for CVD, and strategies to improve muscle mass โ€” promising, proven, fuzzy, noise, or nonsense?

God, I don't remember who actually said that quote, but it's a sort of famous quote in science.

The Peter Attia Drive
#370 - AMA #76: Peter evaluates longevity drugs, aspirin for CVD, and strategies to improve muscle mass โ€” promising, proven, fuzzy, noise, or nonsense?

Listen, I believe I have the potential to beat my young boys in chess, provided I don't get distracted by the smack talk.

The Peter Attia Drive
#370 - AMA #76: Peter evaluates longevity drugs, aspirin for CVD, and strategies to improve muscle mass โ€” promising, proven, fuzzy, noise, or nonsense?

In my defense today, by the way, I know you don't play chess, but just so you understand,

The Peter Attia Drive
#370 - AMA #76: Peter evaluates longevity drugs, aspirin for CVD, and strategies to improve muscle mass โ€” promising, proven, fuzzy, noise, or nonsense?

I promoted a pawn to a second queen on the 25th move.

The Peter Attia Drive
#370 - AMA #76: Peter evaluates longevity drugs, aspirin for CVD, and strategies to improve muscle mass โ€” promising, proven, fuzzy, noise, or nonsense?

Do you understand what an advantage I had in this game today?

The Peter Attia Drive
#370 - AMA #76: Peter evaluates longevity drugs, aspirin for CVD, and strategies to improve muscle mass โ€” promising, proven, fuzzy, noise, or nonsense?

I've got two queens on the board and I was ahead on material before that promotion.

The Peter Attia Drive
#370 - AMA #76: Peter evaluates longevity drugs, aspirin for CVD, and strategies to improve muscle mass โ€” promising, proven, fuzzy, noise, or nonsense?

This was a bloodbath.

The Peter Attia Drive
#370 - AMA #76: Peter evaluates longevity drugs, aspirin for CVD, and strategies to improve muscle mass โ€” promising, proven, fuzzy, noise, or nonsense?

And then he starts yapping so much and makes what looks like an idiotic blunder, exposing his rook to my newest queen.

The Peter Attia Drive
#370 - AMA #76: Peter evaluates longevity drugs, aspirin for CVD, and strategies to improve muscle mass โ€” promising, proven, fuzzy, noise, or nonsense?

So of course, I take the free rook.

The Peter Attia Drive
#370 - AMA #76: Peter evaluates longevity drugs, aspirin for CVD, and strategies to improve muscle mass โ€” promising, proven, fuzzy, noise, or nonsense?

But I was so dumb when I did it that I didn't notice that he moved his bishop out of the way, what looked like a blunder, so he sacrificed his rook, to put his bishop in a way...