The Importance of Exercise for Chronic Pain

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There's nothing that's better for reducing chronic pain than exercising safely. The six hours is dedicated to training racquetball and then you know play your sports outside of it, which will lower the risk of injury. You'll be better at those things as well and your risk of injury will be lower. want to do more of this yeah yeah so yeah and you see you've seen this in your practice like with patients over and over againYeah I'm getting stronger my aches and pains are actually going away counterintuitive right they sort of had this thing which is I'm gonna conic-hottle myself my aches right?

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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