The Insidious Death Certificate Ringer

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Three of these diseases are what I call big death certificate tickets meaning they're actually the ones that show up on the death certificates the most and those are all of the diseases of atherosclerosis which is heart disease and cerebrovascular disease. The fourth horseman is not really a big death certificate ringer you're not gonna see him on a lot of death certificates in fact he doesn't rank in the top five. It's increasing your odds of each of the other three horsemen by anywhere from 50 to 100% so it is the insidious thing that must be controlledYou have to be metabolically healthy that is step one of this process right if you want to take aim at the other

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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