This chapter explores the impact of exercise on mortality rates and emphasizes the importance of maintaining strong muscles and bones to avoid injuries and reduce mortality rates. It also discusses the skepticism surrounding the nutritional literature compared to the consistent and reliable findings of exercise epidemiology.
We spend too much of our health care focus on lifespan and not enough on healthspan--the quality of our life as we get older. So argues Dr. Peter Attia, author of Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity. Attia speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about what kills us, what slows us down as we age, and the weapons we have to allow us to live better and longer.