Outlive, Peter Attia

A deep dive into your own health and potential longevity if you act right now. Technical, long, and worth a look if you care about wanting to live a long life. His main theme here is providing guidance for Medicine 3.0. Currently, doctors are on a Medicine 2.0 outlook – you get sick; go to a doctor; then they treat the symptom/s. Medicine 3.0 places the emphasis on prevention rather than treatment. A shift or change in the mindset in how you, and most importantly, doctors, approach medicine. Doctors need to consider their patients as unique individuals, as opposed to basically treating everyone the same… ie obeying the findings of clinical trials that underlie evidence-based medicine. Side note – I went to my PCP, and he actually stepped out of the room to go look on the internet on how to treat a symptom I had. And there we go.

We need a starting point in an honest assessment, and acceptance, of risk – including the risk of doing nothing (this more in reference to terminally ill patients and quality of life).

Lastly the shift from Medicine 2.0 which focuses largely on lifespan, and is almost entirely geared toward starving off death, to Medicine 3.0, which pays attention to maintaining healthspan – the quality of life.

I thought this was gospel – in my home it I, and has been. Changing and adapting takes a lot of effort, and this book might help you with some of the insightful details on how to make that change.