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In this AMA sneak peek, Peter Attia explains what blood work can and cannot reveal about your health, arguing that labs cover only about a quarter to a third of what matters for longevity.
Peter Attia talks with physical therapist and YouTuber Jeff Cavaliere about lifting as you age: training around injuries, pushing sets close to failure instead of piling on volume, and his top exercises for each...
Peter Attia talks with neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett about why emotions are not hardwired, measurable brain circuits. She argues the brain predicts rather than reacts, and that managing emotion is a skill you...
Peter Attia talks with oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee about what has changed in cancer science in the 15 years since The Emperor of All Maladies, including Mukherjee's case that inflammation, not just bad luck, wakes...
Peter Attia looks back at how his views on nutrition, fasting, and exercise have shifted over 8 years and 400 episodes of The Drive as new evidence emerged.
Peter Attia interviews maternal-fetal medicine specialist Kathryn Gray on how pregnancy acts as a stress test that can reveal and predict long-term cardiovascular and metabolic disease risk in women.
Peter Attia and Lloyd Klickstein walk through how drugs get made, using the myostatin inhibitor Bagramab as a case study covering discovery, trials, patents, and regulatory hurdles.
Peter Attia covers thyroid health, explaining how both under- and over-treatment cause serious harm and why standard lab tests often miss what is really happening.
Peter Attia and Michael Davidson discuss why lowering LDL early in life prevents cardiovascular disease, and how a new drug class called CETP inhibitors may also protect against Alzheimer's.
Peter Attia covers how to accurately measure blood pressure at home, why it matters for longevity, and what lifestyle changes and medications work best.
Neurologist Brian Grosberg joins Peter Attia to cover migraines, cluster headaches, and tension headaches, including how to diagnose, prevent, and treat each type.
Peter Attia explains why he calls the liver the canary in the coal mine for metabolic dysfunction. He covers the four stages of fatty liver disease, muscle, sugar, alcohol and genetic risk.
Psychiatrist Linus Abrams joins Peter Attia to discuss how hormones like estradiol, testosterone, and thyroid hormones shape mental health, and why psychiatry relies too heavily on neurotransmitter-focused drugs.
Peter Attia walks through a five-question framework for evaluating peptides, using BPC-157 as a case study of how marketing outpaces the actual science.
Peter Attia talks with Jim Otvos, creator of the LDL particle test, about how one NMR blood scan can gauge heart risk, insulin resistance, inflammation and mortality risk, and why it never spread widely.
Peter Attia examines how air, noise, light, and electromagnetic pollution affect longevity, and how to prioritize which environmental risks are actually worth addressing.
Peter Attia speaks with neurologist Gayatri Devi about how Alzheimer's and dementia exist on a spectrum, and how early detection and personalized treatment can meaningfully change outcomes.
Peter Attia covers how building muscle and strength protects against early death, injury, and metabolic disease, with practical guidance on training and nutrition at any age.
Reproductive endocrinologist Renato Tomioka joins Peter Attia to discuss endometriosis and adenomyosis, covering diagnosis delays, fertility effects, and treatment options.
Peter Attia explains why 42,000 women still die from breast cancer each year and lays out a personalized, risk-based screening framework to catch cancers earlier.