The Importance of Medicine 2.0 Versus 3.0

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20 years ago as a young resident at John Hopkins you felt frustrations with the medical establishment it sounds like some of those frustrations have persisted. I think that medicine 1.0 is basically not medicine but it was the thing that filled the void of medicine until medicine 2.0 come along which I'll explain later. We're all armchair scientists so we have always constructed stories that's why 500 years ago we thought that there were gods that determined everything where the planets were why you got sick. There was no scientific method and therefore medicine1.0 was largely witchcraft by the way sometimes that witchcraft worked.

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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