Ep 534 - Outlive (feat. Peter Attia)
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What is the background of Dr. Peter Attia?
wow wow wes dr peter atia dude thank you for coming thank you for doing this um thank you for doing this i'm really i'm really pumped i read your book so i'm kind of familiar thank you so much i kind of like what you're about thanks for having me thanks for doing the podcast um and i guess i'll give you an introduction and correct me if anything if i'm wrong you were a medical doctor and you did cancer surgery right A general surgery with a focus on cancer. With a focus on cancer. And then you just kind of... I liked your origin story a lot. So from what I remember in your book, you did this big swim. It was like a marathon swim or something. And how far did you swim? It was about 21 miles. That's insane. So you did a 21-mile swim.
And then, if I remember correctly, you were eating a cheeseburger in celebration.
Oh, actually, that was a slightly longer swim. But yes, now I know the story you're talking about.
Yeah, that honestly, dude, that made me laugh so hard that you did like a what?
I think that was like 25 miles or something.
25-mile swim. You go out to have a cheeseburger and I believe a Coca-Cola. Yeah. And your wife more or less was like, you're fat. Yeah. Dude, that's the best. And then you, it launched you and then you just got the ultimate revenge and started like a super successful business.
How do you feel about that? She was very sweet. She said, she just, she didn't say your fat. She goes, you need to work on being less, not thin.
That's worse, though. I'd rather someone be like you fat ass and be like, you need to be less not thin. But you just swam 25 miles.
Yeah.
That's wonderful, though. That is good, though, to have a woman to push you to those heights. Because then that's is that really like the genesis of you kind of branching out into like.
I had actually already left medicine at that point. I had been out of medicine for three years. I was working at that time. God, what was I doing? I was working at an energy company, I think, or maybe I was in finance or something. But I had nothing to do with medicine. But that was right around the time my daughter was born as well. And so I think that was kind of the one-two punch. It was sort of my daughter's born. And then I'm realizing, actually, I'm not that healthy. Even though I exercise a lot, I'm actually not that healthy. And those two things were what kind of got me to be pretty obsessed with just trying to figure out how to – not die prematurely. The kids do that.
I have a two and a four-year-old, and that really kind of... I actually thought... You'll find this interesting. I thought I was healthy. I did all... I was doing the... You know, all these apps. Like, I did the one where you, like, mail your poop and all that stuff, and I did that. It came back. Like, dude, you're, like, six years younger biologically. I was like, dude, this is awesome. I had the fucking aura thing. I had that going on, telling me I'm seven years younger than my age, and then I took a blood panel. Dude, I'm, like, pre-diabetic. I was like, what the fuck, man? It was like... I thought I was, like, killing it, and I got it back, and it was like... I literally just found out two days ago. So this timing couldn't be more perfect. What is it? A1C, I think it was.
My A1C is like 5.7, which was like, but I did eat two bites of a pancake before my blood work, which I'm not supposed to do.
Shouldn't impact the A1C, though.
Damn it, dude. I was fucking hoping that was the answer. Yeah, so that is kind of crazy. And again, I'm not the definition of fitness, but I'm not like, I wouldn't think, I thought I had almost type 2 diabetes.
Well, it takes a while. No one wakes up diabetic, but also most people don't recognize that it's a 10-year journey for most people. Really? To get there, yeah. So what, I have like four more years of prediabetes? I mean, I think that's impossible to predict for any one person, but we definitely know that disease is so much more complicated than people, I think, historically have thought of it.
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