Peter Attia
Everything Peter personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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Personal use in 3 episodes
"Oh, I take magnesium L-threonate and ashwagandha for sleep... so I take magnesium in three forms. I'm big on magnesium."
▶ 2:16:40"So I'm a fan of glycine, ashwagandha, magnesium L-threonate, and just straight mag oxide as well."
"I take magnesium L-threonate, which I just mentioned. I use the Magtein brand."
Personal use in 2 episodes
"There's certain supplements that I use to sleep as well, so I'm a fan of glycine, ashwagandha, magnesium L-threonate."
▶ 3:20"Oh, I take magnesium L-threonate and ashwagandha for sleep."
Personal use in 2 episodes
"I do take vitamin D because, interestingly, despite the fact that I'm outside every day, without supplemental vitamin D my levels are surprisingly low. I take 5,000 IU, and that takes me from a level of 30ish to a level of 50ish."
▶ 2:13:28"I take vitamin D. I'm sorry that I'm blanking on the brand. I take 5,000 IU of vitamin D. Why? Largely because this is one of those things where I think the risk is insanely low."
Personal use in 2 episodes
"We can fully talk about the fact that we're drinking Topo Chico because we're just advertising for free. We're not getting paid to do this."
▶ 54:19"Truthfully, I don't really drink that many. I'm mostly a Topo Chico, you know, sparkling water guy."
Personal use in 2 episodes
"I take Slow-Mag, which is just a magnesium chloride slow-releasing version of magnesium... great for bowel function. I don't know the last time I had a cramp in my life."
▶ 2:16:44"I take Slow-Mag, that is a brand, and I take two or three of those every day. So that is a slowly and completely absorbed form of magnesium."
Personal use in 1 episode
"I don't have any affiliation with these things, so I use Eight Sleep as my mattress cover. I love what these guys have done. It's a fantastic cooling product and it's made an enormous difference for me. I've been using it for the last three years. Most of our patients are using it. There are other products out there and I've tried them and they're good; this one I just happen to fancy the most."
▶ 1:37Personal use in 1 episode
"The G6, along with the Oura ring, which I've talked a lot about... I've worn every wearable that there is, but they're the only two that seem sticky enough that I can't stop wearing them. A month ago I went to charge my Oura ring and I forgot to put it back on my finger when I went to bed... I was so pissed."
▶ 1:00:29Warned against
"You didn't have bempedoic acid. It's a donkey-ass drug. $6,000 a year for that drug. It's just not worth it."
"CJC-1295 is both biologically plausible and biologically active, but the issue is whether that activity translates into a meaningful human benefit at a dose we understand with risks worth accepting. For CJC-1295, I think that case has yet to be made. CJC-1295 reached phase two but was abandoned."
"I have tried ketamine under therapeutic conditions once. It was — I didn't find it to be a positive experience and I will never repeat it. I described it to a friend after as Guantanamo Bay for my soul and my psyche. Absolutely devastating — just an endless spiral of death."
"If I'm sitting here drinking six Mountain Dews a day, would I be better off doing everything the same but moving to six diet Mountain Dews a day?"
"All those clinics that are out there giving NAD infusions, which is very popular, that's always struck me as quackery, and it just seems even more quackery today, because none of those cells are able to take up NAD."
"When you gave oral NR or NMN, the two popular precursors, only the liver could take them up and make NAD... you're pretty much just giving it to your liver."
"I went down the rabbit hole on this a year ago of looking at every single one of the wrist-based heart rate monitors and I was blown away at how inaccurate wrist-based heart rate monitors were."
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"I used to watch Lee Haney a lot. Remember Lee Haney? So, Lee Haney had a shrug that he did behind his back. And he called it Haney shrugs."
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"It's frankly just a space-saving device. I've got one of those big Freemotion things, I'm selling it. I've got all these other things I'm just getting rid of because it just replaces them."
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"Do you remember the old Nautilus machine? You'll never see these things anymore, but I feel like they were some of the best machines ever engineered... it allowed you to do a fly with your arms at 90 degrees, and so you could actually load this thing up to the ends of the earth and your shoulders didn't hurt."
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"Has anyone proposed doing a study of using a GLP-1 agonist as an adjuvant to conventional cancer therapy, where you would just have a simple randomization of standard of care versus standard of care plus GLP-1 agonist?"
"GLP-1 agonists didn't arrive claiming to fix diabetes, obesity, heart disease, kidney disease, fatty liver, sleep apnea, and neurodegenerative disease all in one shot. They got one indication, proved it in rigorous trials, and then, over years, as real evidence came in, they earned additional ones."
"I look at the potential around GLP-1 agonist and I look at the ways that we're getting better understanding of hormones"
"how do we combine our GLP-1s with the kind of what I would call a minimal effective dose of exercise and nutrition"
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"Just as I can give you Lipitor today long before you have a heart attack, and I can give it to you with an ACE inhibitor if your blood pressure is high, these two molecules will prevent you from having a heart attack. It's chemo-prevention."
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"We are now starting to check for CHIP in patients. And while our therapies are still limited, we have colchicine. Now, it's a crude drug, but there's evidence that..."
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"We could go back and look at the Interventions Testing Program, which is that great NIH program that looks at all the molecules. You could just begin by looking in the metabolome and the proteome of all the ITP winners versus losers, and we could at least get some clues."
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"AlphaFold has garnered a lot of much-deserved credit for using AI... which has allowed them to more rapidly develop drugs. This is a very exciting area."
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"Are your standard antiemetics safe during pregnancy? I can't remember. Zofran and things like that, can they be used during pregnancy?"
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"We know that from the Swedish obesity study, which is an observational cohort of Swedish patients who've undergone bariatric surgery. These people are being followed for decades. It's doing all the good things you'd expect of successfully managing obesity."
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"There are people out there that think they're buying retatrutide. Yeah, no, they're not. Maybe use the GMP process as a way to explain why when you think you're buying retatrutide peptide for research purposes only, you are definitely not buying what Eli Lilly is going to eventually sell if they get FDA approval."
"Take retatrutide as an example. Retatrutide is not just the amino acid sequence. Anyone trying to turn that sequence into a reproducible pharmaceutical has to solve an enormous number of engineering and manufacturing problems."
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"Do you think that just intermittent dosing of everolimus or sirolimus gets that — mTORC1 selective inhibition?"
"When they published that paper in 2014 using everolimus, where they took a group of 65-year-olds and randomized them to either a placebo or different doses... found an enhanced immunity in response to an influenza vaccine."
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"With Repatha and Praluent we did see benefit at about two years."
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"ACE inhibitors and ARBs we rely on as first-line agents. The blood pressure lowering effects of ACE inhibitors are pretty high — at the upper end of that spectrum. The consensus view is that basically across the board the ARBs are probably slightly better drugs than the ACE inhibitors."
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"Thiazide diuretics and calcium channel blockers are also highly efficacious. Those are easily in the 15 mm of mercury and 9 to 10 millimeters of mercury impact on blood pressure, but they do tend to come with more side effects. We typically do not like to rely on those as first-line agents and instead rely on those as add-on agents."
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"Calcium channel blockers are also highly efficacious. Those are easily in the 15 mm of mercury impact on blood pressure, but they do tend to come with more side effects. We typically do not like to rely on those as first-line agents."
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"It's not like giving you Prozac where we sort of know that most people respond at this dose, some people need it at this dose — these are the side effects, if this happens we're going to adjust."
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"Bupropion — which is Wellbutrin for the listener."
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"In the STEP 1 study, semaglutide produced far more weight loss than placebo, so the drug effect was real."
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"One of the very popular peptides, SS-31, is a good example of this. It may make sense to approve a mitochondrial targeting peptide in people with Barth syndrome, which is a severe, life-limiting mitochondrial disease, based on limited evidence. That does not mean we have enough information to make an informed risk-benefit calculation for a healthy person taking it for energy, performance, or longevity."
83 recommended · 0 sponsored · 7 warned against · 100 episodes