

Want to be able to lift a suitcase when you’re 100? You’d better start training now. Sign up for The Next Big Idea newsletter here. Attia joins The Next Big Idea podcast for a discussion so big, we made it two episodes. It’s a comprehensive guide to exercise, nutrition, sleep, and mental health that’ll help you live better for longer. Now, nearly two decades later, he’s compiled everything he learned on that journey in a book, the #1 New York Times bestseller Outlive.
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So he embarked on a journey to figure out how to do it. 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. Peter believed there had to be another approach. 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.

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.
