The Importance of Nutrition in Health

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The gap in perception here is so enormous. I wish you know there was a way that Twitter wouldn't let you tweet anything nutrition related until you do 10 push-ups like you just you gotta go out and run half a mile then you can come in pontificate about your nutrition if you didn't work out today for an hour no nutrition tweeting yeah he thinks it would be good idea. Kelly McGonigal on the show who you know gave a great Ted talk about social psychologist wrote a book called the joy of movement. We have this beautiful cocktail of neurochemicals that reward us for moving our bodies right we we got this is release of endorphins and endocannabinoids and

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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