The Benefits of Increasing Your Workout Time

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The average person should be getting on a pathway to incrementally increase their both cardio and strength training up until they get to a kind of the total of six hours or more again I don't think about that way. The data show that there is no upper limit to the benefit that comes from increased fitnessincrease muscle mass increase strength especially increased cardio fitness we see no upper bound to that limit this is kind of unusual in biology right interesting you know most things in biology are used upside down use most of biology is the Goldilocks principle cardio respiratory fitness is an exception to that rule it's one of the exceptions.

Peter Attia had a problem. It was 2006. He'd recently graduated from Stanford's medical school and was completing a prestigious surgical residency at Johns Hopkins, but instead of celebrating his success, he was tormented by frustrations.

The medical establishment, it seemed to him, was stubbornly resistant to change and innovation; doctors could easily diagnose the maladies that kill most of us — heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's, and type 2 diabetes — but they struggled to help their patients avoid those diagnoses in the first place. Peter believed there had to be another approach. He was convinced it was possible to practice a cutting-edge form of medicine that didn't just manage diseases but tried to prevent them. So he embarked on a journey to figure out how to do it.

Now, nearly two decades later, he's compiled everything he learned on that journey in a book, the #1 New York Times bestseller "Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity." It's a comprehensive guide to exercise, nutrition, sleep, and mental health that'll help you live better for longer.

Peter Attia is the founder of Early Medicine and host of "The Drive."

(This is part one of a two-part episode. Check back next Thursday for the second installment.)

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