Peter Attia
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"I normally travel with protein snacks, I've got my David bars and my venison sticks, and I just for whatever reason I was in such a rush when I packed I didn't take any of that stuff."
"We also use another tracer is called C11 PIB Pittsburgh compound B which shows Alzheimer's plaques in the brain."
"The way that this tracer works is called flurin 18 fluoroestradiol is that it goes up in the brain and it looks for the estrogen receptors."
"For me, maybe we can include it in the show notes. I could show you my continuous ketone monitor, and shoots me up for I guess it's about 4 hours."
"omega-3, vitamin D, magnesium, creatine, multivitamin, those are the key ones"
"whey protein amino acids are going to get you the same. but sometimes I don't want a milky substance and the amino acids are absorbed a little bit faster"
"omega-3, vitamin D, magnesium, creatine, multivitamin, those are the key ones"
"really all my early work in grad school was around creatine and beta alanine and really understanding some of those impacts"
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"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?"
"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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Clear filters"But if you actually go through even something as rudimentary as the CDC mortality tables and slice them by 5-year increments you can't explain the increased prevalence by a factor of 2 to one on that delta in age."
"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"
"For those interested in Alzheimer's disease, whenever it comes to Alzheimer's prevention, we look at the recommendations of the Lancet Commission, which every few years produce an update."
"What do you think of the commercially available versions of PTA and these other studies?"
"I just launched a $50 million program of research sponsored by Welcome Leap, which is an independent subsidiary of the Welcome Trust."
"I have seen some unpublished data that suggest that very low like 2.5 milligrams of tirzepatide as an example is meaningfully reducing blood-based and CSF-based markers of neuroinflammation and protein aggregation."
"This specific substance leaves your reproductive organs alone but goes up into the brain and binds to the estrogen receptor better with high affinity, therefore stimulating cognition in terms of memory for instance or executive function."
"We could look at C2N, we could look at PAL, we could look at any of the other brain metabolomics, we could look at so many things."
"I just launched a $50 million program of research sponsored by Welcome Leap, which is an independent subsidiary of the Welcome Trust."
"Studies like care and other prospective cohort studies and large-scale bio repositories I think they're so important like the UK bio bank thousands and thousands and thousands of blood samples that can be used and analyzed for these purposes."
"for me to get a bottle of corn oil or any of the other seed oils on your table, I have to do a lot of industrial processing"
"for me to get a bottle of corn oil or any of the other seed oils on your table, I have to do a lot of industrial processing."
"I'm not going to be able to get all the hexane off this molecule, and I needed to use hexane to extract it, right?"
"Can you go into a grocery store and choose to have safflower oil that was mechanically extracted versus chemically extracted?"
"Can you go into a grocery store and choose to have, you know, safflower oil that was mechanically extracted versus chemically extracted?"
"I think I read like soybean oil, if you heat it at like 240 degrees Celsius for like 3 hours, you will start to get like a percent of the oil being oxidized"
"Why care about nutrition if you can just control this with statins?"
"would we be better off when it comes to heating oil using lard? In other words, if I'm going to have French fries, should I at least have my French fries made in lard as opposed to polyunsaturated fat and seed oil?"
"would we be better off when it comes to heating oil using lard? In other words, if I'm going to have French fries, should I at least have my French fries made in lard as opposed to polyunsaturated fat and seed oil?"
"The Sydney heart study, which is the one you're referring to, attempts to solve this. So, it was a much smaller study than the Minnesota coronary experiment, which had nearly 9,000 subjects."
"This is a study that took place in the 1960s. I believe it ran 7 years. It's notable because it was carried out in an environment that would be very difficult to do today."
"If, for example, when you're making a salad, you prefer the taste of safflower oil or canola oil over olive oil. Doesn't seem like you're killing yourself by doing it based on the data."
"If you were measuring lactate in the bloodstream with a continuous lactate monitor, which by the way, these things are easily in prototype and there's some that are right on the market."