AMA #1: alcohol, best lab tests, wearables, finding the right doc, racing, and more

**Peter Attia** (0:04)
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Welcome to the inaugural AMA, Ask Me Anything, Not to be Confused with Against Medical Advice.
After getting a lot of really good questions on Twitter and realizing that I didn't have the bandwidth or wherewithal to respond to all of them, and especially in such a short period of time, or short period of space, rather, Bob Kaplan, who's my head analyst, and I put up a little Ask Me Anything on Twitter post, and over the next week, we gathered a bunch of questions. They were amazing questions. We organized them. We got probably over 200 Obviously, couldn't address them all in this episode, but we kind of bundled them. And I think in many ways, we got through probably half of the intended content that people had asked about. So in this episode, Bob interviews me. I didn't really look at the questions before spend much time preparing, but I also thought it would be more enjoyable that way. And I will say it went by pretty quick. So I guess we were having fun. Depending on how people like this, I think this is a format that we should probably repeat and maybe we'll do this quarterly, depending on what the demand is for it. And hopefully, we can use this as an opportunity to sort of answer specific questions without necessarily dedicating an entire podcast to some of the topics. So without further delay, welcome to AMA number one, and hopefully, it's one of many. All right. Hey, Bob.

**Bob Kaplan** (1:59)
Peter.

**Peter Attia** (2:00)
Thanks for taking the train down this morning.

**Bob Kaplan** (2:02)
Absolutely. My pleasure.

**Peter Attia** (2:04)
What time did you have to get up today?

**Bob Kaplan** (2:06)
I got up at 3 a.m.

**Peter Attia** (2:07)
Was that because you had to catch the train that early or is there any other reason you got up a little early?

**Bob Kaplan** (2:12)
The train was at 5 a.m. So I got a little mini workout in before I got on the train. I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to squeeze one in today.

**Peter Attia** (2:20)
So we're going to do a double because we'll work out after this.

**Bob Kaplan** (2:23)
Very nice.

**Peter Attia** (2:23)
Are you still doing the squat every day routine?

**Bob Kaplan** (2:26)
Yes.
Literally. Squatting every day.

**Peter Attia** (2:29)
So this morning, you just wanted to make sure you had some time for squats.

**Bob Kaplan** (2:32)
Just a little bit of time for squats. Yeah. Just work up to a daily max and get in, get out, get the Uber, jump on the train.

**Peter Attia** (2:39)
Well, I think this is officially the first time you're being introduced by voice, at least to people. So anyone who's been reading Nerd Safari will understand that you are my right hand guy on all things pertaining to blogging and being a nerd.
You are the head analyst in our practice and also a very close friend and probably one of the people who's had his foot furthest in my butt to be doing a podcast. So if I'm going to do it, I was going to drag you into it.
And I guess this is our first experiment within AMA. I think we probably stuck out a tweet like two weeks ago. And how many people asked questions? I feel like there was like 300 or 400 questions came in.

**Bob Kaplan** (3:23)
Yes, definitely over 100 questions.

**Peter Attia** (3:26)
So well, I haven't been paying attention to them, which is why I CC'd you on the tweet, but I'm guessing you've aggregated them and I have a feeling I'm going to be hearing them.

**Bob Kaplan** (3:37)
Yes, so I don't think we'll get to all several hundred questions today, but I did put a bunch of them into buckets so that I'm hoping to cover a lot of ground.

**Peter Attia** (3:47)
I'm all yours.

**Bob Kaplan** (3:48)
So let's start with alcohol.

**Peter Attia** (3:49)
It's a little early for that, isn't it?

**Bob Kaplan** (3:51)
Well, it's five o'clock somewhere.