Peter Attia
Physician and founder of Early Medical, a practice built around what he calls Medicine 3.0. Writes a weekly newsletter on exercise, lipids, sleep and longevity at peterattiamd.com and hosts The Peter Attia Drive; author of Outlive.
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Their wordsFor postmenopausal women—and women with premature estrogen deprivation for other reasons—vaginal estrogen is a safe and highly effective therapy to alleviate the genitourinary syndrome of menopause, prevent recurrent UTIs, and likely to save lives.
↗Vaginal estrogen: a potentially life-saving therapypeterattiamd.com
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Their wordsBut there is a downside to being very precise about a prescription: the prescription can start to sound more important than the objective it was designed to serve.
↗A better way to think about Zone 2peterattiamd.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsVO2 max, the peak of our triangle, is one of the strongest predictors of all cause mortality at any age, reliably predicts the physical activities we can take part in in our daily lives, and slowly decreases as we age.
↗A better way to think about Zone 2peterattiamd.com 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsThis is what tells us how to train: as the practical constraint on volume changes, so too does the appropriate tool.
↗A better way to think about Zone 2peterattiamd.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsZone 2 isn’t a secret physiological lever, nor does it provide some sort of mitochondrial magic that only exists at this intensity.
↗A better way to think about Zone 2peterattiamd.com 4th of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsThe one thing we absolutely cannot say, from a trial designed this way, is that any single component, on its own, lowered blood pressure.
↗Multifactorial trials: taking apart the kitchen sinkpeterattiamd.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBeing included in a successful package does not make something causal.
↗Multifactorial trials: taking apart the kitchen sinkpeterattiamd.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsEvery study deserves to be interpreted at exactly the level of certainty its design can support.
↗Multifactorial trials: taking apart the kitchen sinkpeterattiamd.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsIn other words, the absence of calcium is not the same as the absence of disease—it may simply mean the disease hasn’t reached the stage CAC is designed to detect.
↗Zero coronary calcium does not mean zero cardiovascular riskpeterattiamd.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsA zero calcium score is reassuring, but it is most reassuring when the rest of the risk profile points in the same direction.
↗Zero coronary calcium does not mean zero cardiovascular riskpeterattiamd.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsGiven what we know about sleep loss, that conclusion makes sense—but being reasonable isn’t the same thing as being proven.
↗Does losing sleep mean losing lifespan?peterattiamd.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsSleep is a lever on body composition, metabolism, and mood, and deprivation pulls in the wrong direction across nearly every axis at once.
↗Does losing sleep mean losing lifespan?peterattiamd.com 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsPopulation-level studies will keep struggling to prove that short sleep shortens life, because they are structurally unable to separate cause from symptom—and the genetic tools meant to overcome this limitation inherit a different fatal flaw.
↗Does losing sleep mean losing lifespan?peterattiamd.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsSo a rough night here and there is nothing to agonize over.
↗Does losing sleep mean losing lifespan?peterattiamd.com 4th of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsMAST adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that metformin is not a general-purpose anticancer drug.
↗Metformin and cancer: active surveillance neededpeterattiamd.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordswe now have multiple trials confirming that metformin interferes with your ability to reap the adaptive benefits of exercise, which is the most powerful broad-based longevity intervention available to us today
↗Metformin and cancer: active surveillance neededpeterattiamd.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThat’s a lesson we could all learn about our approach to supplements and even drugs: not to fall for hazy promises that a single molecule will deliver vaguely-defined benefits for all aging persons, but to demand rigorous evidence for well-defined benefits for well-defined problems in well-defined populations.
↗Metformin and cancer: active surveillance neededpeterattiamd.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThese failures are a strong signal that HDL-C is not the variable we should be trying to manipulate.
↗The trouble with “good cholesterol”peterattiamd.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsHigh HDL-C is not a free pass.
↗The trouble with “good cholesterol”peterattiamd.com 2nd of 2 in this piece