#36 - Eric Chehab, M.D.: Extending healthspan and preserving quality of life
The Peter Attia Drive
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How to Cope With a Degenerative Asr
Coping is somewhat of managing the expectations of what you will be capable of doing, but also not setting limits. So i draw a grap where i talk about thresholds and and you know, above this threshold, if you're developing pain or swelling,. below this threshold, you're not. You want to be up against that threshold with your activity level as much as you can be. And you can modulate your threshold. Even the person who weighs a hundred pounds, who loses five pounds, is going to benefit from weight loss in case they have a painful lower extremity joint. I'm so used to calling patients athletes, ecause i try to get this idea like every s an athlete
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