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Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

Peter Attia, Bill Gifford, 2023

A physician's plan for living longer and better: catch heart disease, cancer, dementia and metabolic illness early, and train, eat, sleep and tend your emotional health for the decades ahead.

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18 parts, about 45 minutes to read.

Why read it

  • Replaces preventive medicine with a proactive approach aimed at delaying the four chronic diseases most likely to kill you
  • Makes exercise the strongest longevity tool and trains you backward from the tasks you want to do when old
  • Treats emotional health as part of healthspan, drawing on the author's own therapy and the cost of ignoring it

Who it is for

  • People who want to stay strong and sharp into old age
  • Readers with a family history of heart disease or dementia
  • Readers tired of conflicting nutrition and diet advice

What the summary covers

  1. Stop Whoever Is Throwing the Eggs1 min
  2. The Long Game3 min
  3. Medicine 3.02 min
  4. Objective, Strategy, Tactics3 min
  5. Centenarians2 min
  6. Eat Less, Live Longer?2 min
  7. The Crisis of Abundance3 min
  8. The Ticker3 min
  9. The Runaway Cell3 min
  10. Chasing Memory3 min
  11. Turning to Tactics: Exercise2 min
  12. Training for the Decathlon2 min
  13. The Gospel of Stability2 min
  14. Nutrition 3.03 min
  15. Putting Nutrition into Practice4 min
  16. The Awakening: Sleep3 min
  17. Work in Progress: Emotional Health3 min
  18. Epilogue1 min

Recommended by

  • Steven D. LevittAuthor of Freakonomics
    Outlive completely transformed my approach to growing old. Peter Attia is among the most brilliant people I’ve ever met, and he’s succeeded in packing a life’s worth of insights into this book. It promises to be one of the most important books you’ll ever read.
  • Esther PerelPsychotherapist and podcast host
    In Outlive, Peter Attia explores the science of not just prolonging life, but also prolonging aliveness. Attia makes the crucial connection between overall health and relational health.
  • Andrew HubermanStanford neurobiology professor
  • Hugh JackmanActor
  • Siddhartha MukherjeePhysician and Pulitzer Prize winner
    In Outlive, Peter Attia has delivered the definitive look at the complex subject of longevity. Comprehensive and rigorous, Outlive is full of surprising insights into the diseases of aging that will likely kill most of us, and the tactics and techniques that can help us live longer and in better health. Attia’s writing surprises and delights us, while provoking a new way to think about longevity.

About the authors

  • Peter AttiaCanadian American physician and author known for longevity medicine
    • Born and raised in Toronto, Canada.
    • Earned a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering and applied mathematics from Queen's University in 1996.
    • Received his medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine and trained for five years in general surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
    • Spent two years at the National Cancer Institute as a surgical oncology fellow, researching immune based therapies for melanoma.
    • After leaving his surgical residency he worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company in Palo Alto.
    • Founder of Early Medical, a medical practice built on what he calls Medicine 3.0, aiming to lengthen both lifespan and healthspan.
    • Host of The Peter Attia Drive, a podcast on health, medicine and longevity.
    • Serves on the editorial board of the journal Aging.
  • Bill GiffordJournalist and author of Spring Chicken
    • Veteran journalist who writes about athletes, peak performance, cutting edge medicine and the science of longevity.
    • His work has appeared in Outside, Scientific American, Bloomberg Businessweek and Men's Health.
    • Longtime contributing editor at Outside.
    • Author of the New York Times bestseller Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (Or Die Trying).
    • Co author of Outlive with Peter Attia.
    • A native of Washington, D.C., he lives in Utah.

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