The Importance of Cardio in Ultramarathon Running

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I've actually sat down with a number of these guys and it's I'm not being judgmental I'm just insanely curious about what they need to do to get there. People who are couch potatoes use those people as the counter example to why they don't want to do it so I'm more than happy to talk to the patient who's doing 90 miles a week of running and get them to back off. But yeah it shouldn't be used as the excuse to not do it for 99.99999 percent of people they don't even have the capacity to push as hard as those two extremes are pushing and they shouldn't worry about it, he says.

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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