The Importance of VO2 Max in Exercise

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Long sleep reflects fragmented sleep but it may also underpin diseases there may be some bias within that system because you may be sleeping long because of underlying disease. VO2 max muscle mass and strength are huge integrators of work, the differences between people who are high and low in those metrics dwarfs anything you see for nutrition and sleep. The difference is 5x which is a 400% difference in all-cause mortality astonishing if you talk about bottom quartile strength to top quartile strength it's a hazard ratio of almost three That's nearly 200% difference the same is true for muscle mass.

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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