Could @PeterAttiaMD live to 150? He recently told his podcast audience he’s bored of ‘scifi’ portrayals of ageing biology—and so am I!—but here’s why I think Peter living to 150 years old is not scifi…it just requires far greater investment in longevity research.

To be clear, I still think it’s far from certain that Peter will hit the big 120—but I think he’s missing something important when he makes comments like these.

If you want to find out more details of the treatments that could keep Peter—and you!—to live much healthier for longer, you might enjoy my book, Ageless https://ageless.link/

tl;dr? If you want to know how to live to 150, the most important thing isn’t biohacking, or optimising your supplement stack—it’s spreading the word about longevity science.

This video contains clips from Peter Attia’s podcast, The Drive. You can watch the full episode I’m quoting from here:    • 276 ‒ Special episode: Peter on longe...  


Chapters

00:00 Introduction
01:06 Where I agree with Peter
02:32 Where I disagree with Peter
10:14 The most important thing Peter could do for his health (and yours!)


Sources and further reading

US life expectancy at 50 in 2019 via this life table https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4... 92,171 (people still alive at 50) / 2 = 46,085; 45,385 are still alive at 82.
The study I reference about people ticking 4 out of 5 healthy behaviors living even longer https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.l...
I calculate the number of deaths caused by ageing here. The US is actually on the low end for rich countries—the average across the highincome nations is 90% of deaths being caused by ageing. https://andrewsteele.co.uk/ageless/re...
National Institute for Aging, Aging Biology Division budget via https://www.nia.nih.gov/about/budget/... vs National Institutes of Health budget via https://www.nih.gov/aboutnih/whatwe...


Credits

Thanks to @MarkusWaas who sent me a message with the idea for this video!


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